Au revoir Vélo City Girl… hello Jools Walker!
After an INCREDIBLE eleven years of blogging on Vélo City Girl, the time has come for a change… so please...
Kendal Mountain Festival 2020 + Special VCG Discount!
Catch-up with all the action from the Kendal Mountain Festival… and get 20% off all ticket prices with a special VeloCityGirl discount code!
Back in the Frame – New Paperback 17th December 2020!
The paperback of Back in the Frame – Cycling, belonging and finding joy on a bike, by Jools Walker is published by Little, Brown on 17th December 2020! Here are some more details on what’s new and where to pre-order copies of the book…
Rapha Women’s 100: Jools’ Journal
In the lead-up to this year’s Women’s 100, I’ve started an honest journal for Rapha on my reasons for returning...
Cycling for Everyone – A guide for inclusive cycling in cities and towns
Cycling for Everyone; a report by Sustrans and Arup, which sets out recommendations for the transport industry to help tackle...
What happens beyond the Black Squares?
It’s been just over two weeks since we witnessed a mass of black squares appear on Instagram. We all watched...
Back in the Frame – Buy signed copies here! (CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK)
UPDATE: 12TH JUNE 2020: I am now SOLD OUT of direct copies of Back in the Frame! The interest in...
A cycling love letter to Paisley
For the last four months, Paisley the Brompton has done a lot for VCG. This cycling love letter to a bike explains how much those two wheels are doing.
Women and Cycling Roundtable – Sustrans Scotland
‘If the aim is to design cycling for everyone, then everyone needs to have a seat at the (Round)table.’ Earlier...
Big love on a little Brompton
Introducing Paisley: a little Brompton bicycle that’s bringing big cycling love back to VéloCityGirl.
E6100 Shimano STEPS System: Amsterdam by E-Bike
As Shimano prepare to launch their new e-bike E6100 STEPS system in autumn 2018, VéloCityGirl takes one for a test ride in Amsterdam…
Moulton x Colourbolt Collaboration: X-Black
British cycling brands Mouton and Colourbolt have come together and created the X-Black bicycle. Read more on how this dream collaboration came about, and launched at the end of August 2018.
Coloral Cycling Bottles
The iconic British cycling bottle Coloral makes its return this summer, seventy-one years after it was first made. A passion project by a man called Tom ensured its return. Although it took him five years to do it, his determination paid off in the most beautiful fashion…
Brompton and The Beach
After a non-stop writing schedule, I finally got a chance to down tools, escape London and have a seaside fling with a Brompton on their Bike Hire scheme… and now I want a Brompton so bad…
Bradford Literature Festival 2018
2018 is sure as hell turning into the year that I’m doing stuff that I never thought I would (and low-key freaking out about in the process). After doing the WOW Festival a couple of months ago, going on BBC Radio 4 last weekend for a bit of a chat (catch it here if you missed it), next weekend I’m speaking at the Bradford Literary Festival!
London Nocturne 2018
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…
Road Block
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…
Widening Participation with British Cycling in 2018
I took a mini break from writing about cycling to go watch some this weekend. The 2018 HSBC UK National...
A Tale of Two Talks – Mental Health and Marginalised Voices
I’m not going to lie. Last week was a hard one for me. At the end of last year I...
RideLondon 2017 – My Reason to Ride
I’ve taken part in big sportives before, but I knew that RideLondon was going to be totally different. The obvious...
About Lady Vélo
I started Vélo-City-Girl when I got my Pashley Princess in March 2010, after a ten year absence from the saddle. VCG is all about cycling and the many different forms it comes in, there is something for everyone.