Lara has been riding bikes for longer than she'd care to admit, and writing about them nearly as long. Since 2009 she has been working as part of the road.cc review team whilst championing women's cycling on the side, most notably via two years as editor of the, sadly now defunct, UK's first and only women's cycling mag, erm, Women's Cycling.
Believing fervently that cycling will save the world, she wishes that more people would just ride a bike and be pleasant to each other.
She will ride anything with two wheels, occasionally likes to go fast, definitely likes to go far and is always up for a bit of exploring somewhere new and exciting.
I'd hardly call Hirsute's comments victim blaming. They're not excusing the driver or saying the cyclist caused the incident....
I've tried to hold off using an ad blocker on here as I also don't object to a reasonable amount of advertising....
If a bicycle is the only vehicle stopped at a zebra crossing, you should just go around them.
There is a car coming head-on, the car ahead has stopped, no room to complete a safe overtake and the driver is on the brakes before even being...
as long as the wheel goes around when i pedal.....
Im considering something like this to replace my current storage bottle on my downtube. It does the job of keeping the tools safe and dry but at...
Not waving but gripping, sounds like.
The wheelbenders were on the verge again, so since there were no other bikes in sight i locked mine along the back of them....
Another humbug *! Maybe also a "friendly fire" casualty - of the "war on the roads" on animals by motor traffic - possibly while "being the cat"?...
Up until the late '60s, the route through Sopley was the main A338; it's now a B road....