It was February 2022. Chris Whitty had just been knighted, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had published an official statement about ‘how we will live with COVID,’ relaxing practically all the restrictions concerning meeting and travel, and I was cooked. I’d been working for the London Cycling Campaign for approximately two years, overwhelmingly indoors, and not really doing much cycling, and I was really not in a good way at all. My sleep cycle was all over the place and the only in-person communication I was getting was with a very occasional couple of laps of Regents Park with friends I really treasure. But this occasional relief wasn’t enough; I needed to go and figuratively touch grass. My chosen way of doing this was to quit my white collar job and become a cargo bike courier with an employer of cargo bike pilots. I did this for just over 2 years. This is a blog post about what I learned about Urban Arrow cargo bikes and how what I’ve learned might help you going forward.
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My top 3 ways to ruin your bike and get an expensive repair bill
As a teacher at London Bike Kitchen, and doing my own bike maintenance work, one of the first things I talk to people about is how much money maintenance can save you. It’s tempting to tell people that cycling is ‘free once you buy the bike,’ but this quickly becomes untrue if you let maintenance problems build up, and let your more expensive components become unduly damaged and worn ahead of time. This is a short blog about the best ways to ruin your bike through lack of maintenance, which hopefully you’d use more in a what not to do sense. But it’s more fun to talk about it this way!
Calum On Wheels 