These ran monthly in Cycling Plus magazine for a little while
Type 'bicycle' into Google and you get 21 million hits. It's going to be my job to help you narrow that down.
A computer on your desktop is the perfect accessory to the bike in your shed. Cyclists have been on the net from the beginning, exchanging tips, arguing about helmets, flogging cranksets... and creating websites which serve as digital panniers to hold all the bits and pieces which help define their passion. For something so sedentary, it can be the perfect spur for activity: browsing and clicking often lead to riding. And writing. It was after visiting
'Are you safe on a bike?', a quiz about road positioning, that I got the rough idea for
my own road test.
So, where to start? The sites reviewed here will give you food for thought until at least the next issue.
Captainbike.com is an encyclopedia of technical information;
cyclehelmets.org is as good a place as any and better than most for calmly immersing yourself into the facts and fallacies of helmets;
drunkcyclist.com can be your night down the pub, though probably not your local;
ctc.org.uk is the cyber home of the venerable Cyclists' Touring Club;
BikeReader.com is a library of cycling culture; and
cyclingplus.co.uk maintains a sideline in magazine publishing. Happy surfing.