Bike blog summer reading list | James Randerson
We asked our bike bloggers and Twitter followers to suggest cycle-themed books to read on your holidays. Here's the best of the bunchWhether your summer break is an epic two-wheeled trek on a rugged tourer kitted out with fully loaded panniers, or a re...
The bike podcast: Cyclocross and bike books
It may have been a cold and snowy January but we've not been scared off our bikes.
Peter Walker heads to the Velodrome in Herne Hill, South London which is now all that remains from the 1948 London Olympics. Over the winter months they have been holding crosscycle races and Peter gives it...
Poetry and pedals
Why are we all still so hung up on the Romantics? In the week that the Guardian and Observer launch a seven-day series of booklets of Romantic poetry – bringing you the best of Burns, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth – we ask the former poet laureate and Keats biographer Andrew Motion how...
Zen and the art of cycle maintenance | Carrie Quinlan
If, as HG Wells said, the bicycle is a good reason to have hope for humanity, then my London neighbourhood is nirvana already
I have headed east. The exotic people and the heady mix of spices in the air have lured me, and I've moved to the sunnier, mysterious...