Cranky Bikes The British home-mechanic journal

Mend it in the kitchen. Ride it in the rain. No shop talk.

About Cranky Bikes

This is an independent British journal about keeping a bicycle on the road. We are not a shop, not a retailer, not a club, and not affiliated with any other site of a similar name , in particular, we have no connection with crankybikes.com or any business that shares the words "Cranky" and "Bikes". That site, as far as we can see, is a bicycle retailer; we are neither its sister publication nor its PR outlet.

Who writes this

The editors. Cranky Bikes is a small editorial operation and articles are written and checked by the same handful of people. We do not attach the name of an invented expert to a piece; when a piece names a source, it is a real one, and we link to it.

What we cover

Home bike maintenance , punctures, brakes, gears, chain care. Ownership topics , panniers, lights, theft, insurance, choosing a bike. UK rules where they matter: the Highway Code, local cycle schemes, security registration. We are grumpy about bad advice and kind to anyone trying to learn.

What we do not do

We do not run paid links. We do not accept product review units. We do not publish "best bike for £X" league tables; the best bike is the one that fits you, and we are not in a position to know that from a web page. We do not publish gambling, adult or crypto content.

Guest posts

We accept a small number of guest posts each quarter from people who know what they are writing about. The terms are on our write for us page. Pitches go to [email protected].

Image credits

Photographs on this site come from Wikimedia Commons under open licences. The attributions below also appear under each photo on the article page.

Contact

Everything goes through one address: [email protected].