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After an INCREDIBLE eleven years of blogging on Vélo City Girl, the time has come for a change… so please...
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Catch-up with all the action from the Kendal Mountain Festival… and get 20% off all ticket prices with a special VeloCityGirl discount code!
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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…
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In the lead-up to this year’s Women’s 100, I’ve started an honest journal for Rapha on my reasons for returning...
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Cycling for Everyone; a report by Sustrans and Arup, which sets out recommendations for the transport industry to help tackle...
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It’s been just over two weeks since we witnessed a mass of black squares appear on Instagram. We all watched...
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UPDATE: 12TH JUNE 2020: I am now SOLD OUT of direct copies of Back in the Frame! The interest in...
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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.
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‘If the aim is to design cycling for everyone, then everyone needs to have a seat at the (Round)table.’ Earlier...
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Introducing Paisley: a little Brompton bicycle that’s bringing big cycling love back to VéloCityGirl.
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As Shimano prepare to launch their new e-bike E6100 STEPS system in autumn 2018, VéloCityGirl takes one for a test ride in Amsterdam…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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!
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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…
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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…
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I took a mini break from writing about cycling to go watch some this weekend. The 2018 HSBC UK National...
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I’m not going to lie. Last week was a hard one for me. At the end of last year I...
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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.