How to avoid cycle sweat
Matt Seaton: A bicycling problem I confess I have no solution to is how not to arrive in a ball of perspiration at the far end of my journey.
Aged 80 with a body to die for
Matt Seaton: Saturday's race was won by Malcolm Elliott, who, at 44, showed a clean pair of wheels to a field in which there were plenty of riders whom he is old enough to have fathered.
A perverse use of bikes
Matt Seaton: You must have seen the advert. It's everywhere at the moment - it fills billboards twice on my short trip to work. This is the Ford ad for a new car called the S-MAX.
The sport they won’t let you see
Matt Seaton: Given cycling's resurgent popularity, terrestrial and freeview broadcasters may be missing a trick by virtually ignoring the Tour de France.
Class warfare gets on its bike
Matt Seaton: People don't talk much about class and cycling. It's one of those things we all notice but are far too polite to mention. But the fact is there are two types of cyclist.
Emasculated metrosexuals
Matt Seaton: Not to be indelicate, but you are likely to get a sore bum.
Sympathy for David Cameron
Matt Seaton: I can't help but have a little sympathy for Conservative leader David Cameron, who has been skewered in recent days over the revelation that while he cycles home, in a show of seeming eco-virtue, his driver sometimes follows him in a car with his briefcase, papers and clothes.
Biking to school: the sad truth
Matt Seaton: I have nothing but praise and gratitude for the people who make them happen and put on events to promote bike use. And yet ... I find something about them depressing. I think it's to do with a sneaking feeling of impotence and pointlessness. My kids, who are both 10, do sometimes cycle to school.
Happiness is a warm spoke key
Matt Seaton: If you ask people what their favourite bike tool is, most will say "the telephone".
Try the carbon fibre diet
Matt Seaton: I had one of those archetypal roadside experiences a couple of weeks ago. I was on a favourite weekend ride, down to Box Hill in Surrey. It had rained the night before, and flints must have been washed on to the road, because I got a puncture.
I’m talking total cobbles
Matt Seaton: You don't come across cobbles much any more. Occasionally, you see a little patch of them showing through in a spot where the Tarmac has broken up - which always makes me think of that line of TS Eliot's about 'the skull beneath the skin'.
The wrong kind of lights
Matt Seaton: I am extra-grateful for the arrival of British summer time. If I leave work in time, I can get home without bike lights.
The global helmet headache
Matt Seaton: Surely wearing a helmet equals safer cycling? Isn't it a no-brainer? Sadly, nothing is so straightforward.
Cold-shouldered in the city
Matt Seaton: If you go for a recreational ride at the weekend, every cyclist you meet coming the other way will give you a little wave or a nod.
We need to start stopping
Matt Seaton: A question for you. How many cyclists would you guess were prosecuted last year for going through red lights?