Cycle? Live in Greater Manchester? Want to win £100?

Faced with questions like these there's only really one answer isn't there? Yes.

So when the offer to take part in a survey about cycling and by doing so I could trouser 100 of your earth pounds, I was hooked immediately.

Something called the Salford Housing and Urban Studies Unit in association with BikeRight, is entering all the people who take the survey into a draw to win the hundred notes. I'd imagine the usual data protection rules apply.

Who's in? *not really

The study 'aims to improve understanding of the barriers to utility cycling and to find ways to improve the uptake of cycle training by adults' and 'should take you between 10 and 15 minutes to complete. At the end of the questionnaire, you are given the opportunity to volunteer to take part in a focus group to discuss adult cycle training further, but this is entirely optional.'

Here's the link to the questionnaire  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cyclesurvey2013 

you have until October 27th to enter. Good luck*

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Free cycling training in Manchester

Hats off to the people over at Bike Right on Ashton New Road who are giving away free bike training to commuters.
The fear of the roads is a huge barrier to increasing cycling for commuting or pootling to the shops - journeys which could easily be done by bike.
Training has to be one of the central tenants of any effort to get more people on two wheels along with better infrastructure and some dry weather.

A dead rainbow, yesterday

There is a positive to all the rain we have here - it has rained every day in Manchester since February 26th 1982 - it enables you to spot obstacles in the road more easily in two distinct ways.
Potholes become more easily identified as they fill up with water and diesel spills (known by children as dead rainbows) reveal themselves in all their colourful slippery grandeur.
So, I'm trying to be positive about the rain as it is the only course of action really.