Last update 14th February 2008
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Phil Deaves, Swindon, Wiltshire
We enjoy cycling. These pages aim to share some of what we enjoy. We will be adding to these pages as circumstances permit.
Click here to find out about our bike "family", and here to see the human family out and about on the tandem and trailer.
This link takes you to a list of junior racing/touring road bikes, ideal for 8-12 year olds.
Would you enjoy taking your bicycle somewhere, and then having a nice long ride? Cycling by train information can be found here.
Our cycling and the law page is here, containing extracts from the highway code.
Our local bike shop. Please click here for a link to our favourite local bike shop, Swindon Cycle Superstore. We have found that the staff are always willing to talk and discuss our needs, and only ever want to sell us what we want, rather than what they want us to buy.
Bike modifications! Please click here for an account of the trials and tribulations of how I added an Arai drum brake to a Dawes Discovery Twin tandem. It wasn't as easy as it should have been. In addition, here is a note describing how to mount a saddle lower than the lowest height!
Tax breaks! Ditch your car for a cycle. Did you know that, as well as being better for you and the environment, if you use your own bicycle for business purposes, you are entitled to a mileage allowance? Further information can be found on the Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs web site, on their travel and mileage pages.
Good book! Split, "ergonomic" saddles, a wide range of different tyre treads, "goo" you can squirt into a punctured inner tube to seal it, folding bikes, shaft-driven bikes, centre-pull brakes, mudguards as extras to keep off-roaders a little cleaner: these all sound like modern innovations. You may be surprised to learn that all were around in the 1890s. Read all about them, and more, in "The Golden Age Of The Bicycle: the world-wide story of cycling in the 1890s" by Patricia Burstall (ISBN 1 900289 741, published by Little Croft Press in association with Paul Watkins). I found it most fascinating.
Bikes for business! Congratulations to Domino's Pizza for replacing mopeds with pushbikes for deliveries in London (source: Evening Standard, 14th March 2005).
Are you fed up with badly designed cycle paths and facilities? You may be interested in this Warrington Cycle Campaign page.
Here are two links to useful cycling organisations, the Tandem Club, and the Cycling Touring Club.
For something a little unusual, you may be interested in this pedal-powered pub!
