Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign

GMCC are holding cycle commuting rides into Albert Square (Wednesday St Peter’s Square) on all five weekday mornings of Bike Week. These will be like the regular last Friday of the month rides we organise with Manchester Friends of the Earth/LoveYourBike.
Longer leisure rides are also being organised (see details further down this page).
Bike 2 Work [...]

Please Give Cyclists Room signs are cropping up all over the city. This one appeared a few months ago on the northbound side of Manchester Road in Cheadle. It’s certainly much needed on this two lane, 40 mph stretch of road, where to get to and from South Manchester, over the river and the M60, [...]

(reproduced from Private Eye without permission)

Available at Will’s Wheels, Harry Halls, and Bicycle Doctor of course.

There’ll be a Critical Commute on Friday 27th October at 8.15am starting outside the Withington Library. From here we’ll ride up Oxford Road to the Central Library, at which point there’ll be a press launch of GMCC’s own high visibility gilet.
It’s linked to winter approaching and the clocks going back, days getting duller and evenings [...]

Get yourself noticed in all the right places this winter and avoid the misery of SMIDSYs by wearing the GMCC’s very own hi-vis gilet, created in association with a local clothing designer.

It can be yours for just £25. Various sizes. E-mail your details to:

The BBC has picked up the story, first brought to light by the CTC, about the proposed new rule in the highway code telling cyclists to “use cycle routes when practicable and cycle facilities … where they are provided”, and why this might be a gift to drivers’ insurance companies fighting claims by cyclists.
This [...]