As I’m slowly getting myself back into a cycling groove, I was totally in two minds about heading to this years London Nocturne. If it was anything like 2016’s (the last time I went – also… where the hell have two years gone?), being at heaving event with cycling-anxiety issues may not have been the best idea I’ve ever had. If I didn’t feel comfortable, I knew that I could always pull the eject chord. I went along and actually stayed for a huge chunk of Saturday’s festivities… hooray! The celebration of cycling in the city returned to Cheapside, filled with bike-related entertainment as varied as folding bike and Penny […]

It’d been six months since I’d last been on a bike: an incredibly long dry spell for me, but one I could quite easily attribute to a few factors. There was the bad weather for starters – last winter was a bitterly cold bastard in London, so sticking my bike in the cupboard  from November onwards because “It’s way too cold on my chest with my Asthma” (to be fair, I did have a rotten chest infection in December and was poppin’ inhalers, steroids and antibiotics to the point of rattling when I walked) meant I could convincingly get away with not riding. There was of course the other valid […]