About

I'm James, and I am a fully accredited Cycle Skills instructor / Level 3 Instructor Trainer and City and Guilds Level 2 Bike Mechanic. I am also co-author of the UK’s first professional cargo bike course to be assured by City & Guilds in collaboration with logistics specialists, Pedal Me.

I work widely across all manner of cycling projects in central / north London, running the gamut from training others to ride, bike maintenance, teaching bike repair skills, to developing and delivering cargo bike and trailer training.

I've been passionate about bicycles since riding around the terraced backstreets and nearby country lanes of Rugby, Warwickshire by myself from a very young age on clunky old 1970's bikes. An idealised 1980's childhood maybe, but it's given me a lifelong love of the freedom riding a bicycle can bring.

I have always cycled for work (save a short period working at home that left me at my most unfit), be it in Bristol, or for the past ten years in London, and I've seen a huge change in the city's cycling culture, and I'm enthusiastic in getting and keeping people cycling, through training and keeping bikes (especially old bikes) on the road.

Before becoming a full time cycling instructor and mechanic I spent 10 years working in a wide variety of roles across health and social care, from local authorities, to national regulators to older people's charities. 

"Life's too short to ride boring bikes".