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The CTC Guide To Family Cycling, Dan Joyce (2009)
James Pembrooke Publishing, 9780954817640 Full colour paperback
194pp £9.99
A sound and comprehensive distillation of everything needed to
help a family pedal off
 
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Anyone who has spent a lifetime cycling might struggle to appreciate the
usefulness of a title such as this. Even regular cyclists who are trying
to work out how to involve their recently-arrived children into their
two-wheeled activities, will probably have spent more time than they care
to admit to, looking at how other cyclists solve such problems.
Make no mistake, however, this is a rich compendium of common sense,
for which there is a burning need. In another life, I answer readers'
questions about cycling in a national newspaper. Around a quarter of those
who send in their queries (which is to say, all those who ask about issues
relating to children cycling), could have found the solution to their
query in Joyce's excellent volume.
It is probably not a book to be read from front to back. Its triumph,
though, is that it covers everything that a family planning to start cycling
might care to consider. And, the advice it proffers is both dispassionate
and unfailingly good. A wealth of colour illustrations give the book a
magazine's easy-to-read quality. And if you have no use for a copy yourself,
buy one and send it to a family that you think might be on the cusp of
taking off awheel.
Tim Dawson Mar 10
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