ALL THAT’S INNOVATIVE AND INTERESTING FROM THE WORLD OF CYCLING

Articles, Books & Maps, including:

NEW Brompton Bicycle – 4th Edition 2024

Now in a fully updated 4th edition for 2024, Brompton Bicycle tells the fascinating story behind one of the world’s most unusual and popular folding bikes. It also details how you can modify and convert your Brompton for such uses as child carrying and touring and acts as a unique maintenance and repair manual, full of tips you won’t find in any standard bike repair book. In short, everything you need to enjoy this incredible bike to the full.

The first edition was hugely popular with the legions of Brompton fans and contained 160 pages, but the latest 248 page edition contains information on the new super lightweight T-Line – probably the world’s lightest production folding bike – plus where Brompton may be heading in the future and of course the low-down on other new products and company developments.

Review from Cycle magazine Feb-Mar 2025: “any Brompton owner is probably going to read this cover to cover and take great pleasure in the story of this unique bike“. With Permission of Cycling UK.

Innovative, tough waterproof map: South Pennines & Peak District Off-Road Cycle Map

Published June 2019

• Includes GPX download links for all featured routes
• 14 epic circular bike rides along classic trails
• 20 family trails
• Cycle-friendly accommodation listings
• Routes shown include:
• Sections of the Trans Pennine Trail
• Sections of the Pennine Bridleway
• and a 110 mile ‘Pike to Peak’ circular route

Other maps and guide books:

• Ultimate UK Cycle Route Planner
• Ultimate Scottish Coast to Coast
• Cycling Southern France
• Brompton Bicycle, 4th Edition 
• Ultimate Devon Coast to Coast
• Electric Bicycles
• Avenue Verte – London to Paris by Bike
• Trans Pennine Trail

More details of all of these can be found on the Maps and Books page here.

Short Biog

• Took to full-time outdoor writing/photojournalism after qualifying as a solicitor and spells as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language .
• Written and published over 35 cycling titles, including the best-selling Ultimate C2C Guide (Sea to Sea by Bike) plus many of the country’s most popular Sustrans routes.
• Expert in the area of e-bikes and sustainable energy
• Extensive experience of writing and providing images for a wide range of print and web media.
• Photo-library specialises in cycling images in the UK and Europe. High degree of skill in producing print ready full colour material.
• Regular contributor to the Cyclists Touring Club magazine Cycle, A to B magazine and leading French cycle travel website Freewheeling France.
• Past portfolio of work includes commissions for Bikeradar and Conde Nast Traveller.
• Proprietor: Excellent Books, specialist publishers of cycling guides.

Main areas of interest

All aspects of cycling from cycle safety to mountain biking but concentrating on cycle leisure routes in the UK, France, Benelux, Switzerland and Germany. E-bikes, folding bikes and sustainable energy a speciality.