I’d Rather Cycle started life in 2003 as an online cycle community — a not-for-profit forum, events calendar and bike classifieds that spent over a decade encouraging people to get out of the car and onto a bike, and nudging councils and motorists to give cyclists more room.
The original community wound down years ago. In 2026 the site was relaunched with the same conviction and a narrower mission: practical, plain-English guides for everyday cycling in the UK — commuting, the Cycle to Work scheme, choosing and maintaining a bike, and riding through a British winter without misery.
No hype, no jargon. If an article states a number — a tax rate, a scheme rule, a price — it has been checked against the original source first.