A bicycle is not just for Christmas...

Cycling has become quite polarising recently: there has certainly been a backlash towards the bicycle revival. It has become yet another battlefield in the ongoing culture wars which we seem to be living through. For some people, a false binary emerging. Cycling, who until fairly recently was seen as a poor person's transport, is now […]

Coventry

I’ve always had a soft spot for Coventry, the football team. Perhaps it’s the mad kits they had in the 80s. The unnecessary stripes, and they were the only team to turn up in a brown away, so far as I remember. I loved the flair. In 1889 their kit was pink and blue, according […]

Donate £10 to Ukraine, get a free book

Hello, This month (April 2022), I will donate £10 for every copy of my book (the Bicycle Clip Diaries) I sell to the Ukraine Disasters Emergency Committee. That's the full cost of the book, you'll still have to pay the postage. To do this, please click here here Many thanks, Nick photo © Nick Raistrick. […]

A bar bag?

It has been a month when clients decided to pay late; my mortgage lender is somewhat less flexible about matters of a financial nature. Such is the gig economy. Obviously, things are much worse in Ukraine, and I was going to donate some money to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) fund. But I also needed […]

The joy of bike shops

I was in the bike shop the other day… not inside it, obviously, due to the lockdown, but close enough to wistfully look at the tyres on hooks and think about all the bike shops I’ve known. Big up the bike shops, a beacon of light in these dark times, especially Rayment Cycles in Brighton. […]

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Bio

Nick Raistrick has ridden bicycles on all of the continents with the exception of Antarctica; he's photographed them in Beirut, Baghdad and Bristol; and he's written about them, and other things, for the Guardian, the BBC and Boneshaker magazine.

He has worked as a copywriter, journalist, editor, and producer. He is also a trainer and consultant, specialising on humanitarian media projects, and has worked in Somalia, Syria, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Indonesia, Turkey, Kenya, Kashmir, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Moldova, and elsewhere. He has written about gender-based violence for the UN, and wrote the BBC handbook for radio producers in Zambia.

Nick has also taken down tents in France, pulled pints in Middlesbrough, and sold pens in Bromley to make ends meet. He has lived in Prague, Madrid, and Barcelona, but comes from North Yorkshire, and a long line of people with proper, solid jobs, like steel worker and North Sea fisherman.

Nick lives in Brighton with his wife, stepchildren, chaotic toddler and approximately eight bicycles, not all of them his.

For media enquiries, please contact nick.raistrick@me.com