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Hello user, ...and thanks for visiting. Any questions, please get in touch via Twitter. Cheers, Nick Why free books? My agent vanished, so I’m publishing this book myself. I’m trying to get as many people to read it as possible. I printed a few to sell. But I know it’s hard times […]

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...Win a free book "The Bicycle Clip Diaries is a travel memoir; it starts out in Middlesbrough, where I found an envelope in my Dad’s garage, addressed to me from my Grandad, who has been dead for more than a decade. It contained a pair of Bicycle Clips and a 1937 guide to Japan. […]

Killing Your Darlings (Part one)

Writing the Bicycle Clip Diaries took me on lots of journeys. Spending so much time with old bicycle catalogues got me interested the idea of how liberating cycling was for everyone, but particularly women. I looked into the relationship between transport, cycling, gender, and clothing. I spent weeks with the literature surrounding the topic of […]

What is a bicycle?

Qu'est-ce qu'un vélo? It is a philosophical question. But also a practical one. The Post Office asked the existential question, ‘what is a bike?’ in 1929. They were laying out specifications in order to standardise their bicycle fleet. At the time, picking up a bike to feel how light it was required a couple of […]

Curiously, not furiously*

I used to commute 10 miles each way in London, and I used to go relatively fast. Not shave my legs fast, and compared to the elite riders who have spare bikes on the roof of a nearby car, I was positively a tortoise. But faster than the average Joe, and faster than most bicycles […]

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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