Nick Raistrick

Staying dry on a bicycle

It is exactly as climate scientists predicted, I think to myself, as I cycle unfashionably through West Norwood in the rain. A month’s worth of precipitation in a single day, much of it landing on me and gradually soaking through my cagoule. Global warming sounded better than this. Secretly a part of me thought that […]

The Bicycle Clip Manifesto

I couldn’t afford to buy a car, so I bought a bicycle. In fact, I couldn’t afford a travel card. I lived in London. It was the 90s. I had the usual debts associated with a humanities degree, travel, teaching English. I paid them off, slowly, but kept the bicycle. I realised that it made […]

Mystery Typeface Competition

...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. […]
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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

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