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On Yer Bike

Our column is published in the Oxford Mail every Tuesday.

3 Simple Steps to Promote Active Travel
  • May 26, 2020
By Mark Utting

The government’s recent promotion of ‘active travel’ is fantastic news and the announcement of £2bn of funding could stretch a long way if allocated wisely.

ON YER BIKE: Happy family cycling during the lockdown
  • May 19, 2020
By Kath Cochrane

Cycling is, at the moment, one of the few things we are allowed to do, writes Kath Cochrane. If you have children, and if your house is anything like mine, getting out for

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ON YER BIKE: Pedalling fast on our cycles for key workers project
  • May 12, 2020
By Alison Hill

Every Thursday evening at 8pm people are out in the streets applauding, banging pots and pans, and playing music, to celebrate our NHS and social care workers.

Remembering Claudia
  • May 5, 2020
By Sam Chappell

It’s been 3 years since Oxford felt the shock and the roar from someone being killed while cycling on our roads.

Cycles of time
  • April 28, 2020
By Rob Ainlsey

Writer Rob Ainsley returned with his bike to Oxford for the first time in 35 years. It’s changed since then. So’s everything…

What happens after Covid-19?
  • April 14, 2020
By Roger Symonds

At the time of writing, we have been in lockdown for three weeks. People have permission to exercise once a day. We can go out with people we live with, but group rides

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Reasons to be hopeful?
  • April 7, 2020
By Oly Shipp

As I cycled through East Oxford with my kids this morning, I began to realise there may be some positives to the present worrying situation.

Covid-19 and Cycling
  • March 31, 2020
By Alison Hill

Managing the spread of Covid-19 is resulting in more and more restrictions on our lives. Cycling is one activity Cyclox believes that it is essential to maintain over the

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Cycling around the world in 263 days…
  • March 24, 2020
By Becci Curtis

On the 29th June 2019, a huge number of well-wishers congregated outside Beeline Bicycles to see two members of the Cowley Road Condors Cycling Club head off on the

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Cyclists, or people on bikes?
  • March 17, 2020
By Roger Symonds

I am not a cyclist. As Mikael Coalville-Anderson, author of Copenhagenize said: “I am just a modern city dweller, who happens to use a bicycle to get around because it

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Bicycles and Greenhouse Gases
  • March 10, 2020
By Andy Chivers

Last week, two-hundred people turned up on a cold, wet and windy night to hear Prof. Tim Schwannen talk about transport in the future. He pointed out that despite the

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Healthy Streets: something we can all agree on?
  • March 3, 2020
By Oly Ship

In current times, we’d be hard pressed not to find ourselves privy to multiple divisive debates. In this country, the toxic legacy of the Brexit referendum can appear to

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