Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
Second in road racing I think after Andre Dredge in the Tour of Norway, but there's also been Scott Huntley last month in the USA national downhill...
James (not so) Cleverly - it's not 20mph "everywhere". There's the M4, for a start...
It is the last point that is key with many Dashcam clips we receive where a cyclist is cycling along a road and a vehicle drives past too close....
Could you provide a link to that? I just tried searching for it on Hansard and found nothing. What I did find was that under Labour police numbers...
Advice stuck firmly in the 1970s. Today, all it does is enable more driver gaslighting of their responsibility for safety on to - literally -...
Many years ago, I was stopped by the police and they checked my registration by radio calling back to HQ - it took about ten minutes - his...
Fair to middling?
People need to stop calling it road tax , It's vehicle tax
Most *people* aren't cycling *any* trips, true. I *think* the majority of cycling in the UK is "recreational" but I'm far from certain that "most...
The biggest advantage of commuting by bike, is it's just much more fun (well, when a dodgy driver isn't trying to run you off the road)....