Fair-weather bikers

Matt Seaton: I love this statistic, always have. 'On average, London commuters get wet fewer than 12 times a year.'

Critical crackdown

Matt Seaton: For the past 11 years, on the last Friday of the month, cyclists numbering from a few score to several hundred have gathered near Waterloo bridge in London at 6pm.

A £6,000 bike? Lead me to it

Matt Seaton: I just spent rather more on a spiffy pair of wheels for my racing bike than most people would think of spending on an entire new bicycle.

The other sexual dysfunction

Matt Seaton: Pretty serious news the other day for cyclists. According to US research, riding a bike reduces the blood flow to, ahem, vital regions, causing first numbness, then impotence.

Stereotyping saves lives

Matt Seaton: Most cyclists seem to relish the feeling of belonging to an embattled minority. And what defines "us" is mostly our common disdain for "them" - the assorted sinners of the road-going universe.

Death, war, famine, bike-theft

Matt Seaton: Is there a feeling worse in the world than going to the railings where you locked up your bike - and finding nothing there?

I want a red light revolution

Matt Seaton: The non-cyclists of my acquaintance often take me to task for some cyclist's misdemeanour they have witnessed.

Talking shop

Matt Seaton: Whatever small portion of my income still remains - after household bills and kids' expenses have wreaked their monthly financial havoc - gets spent in bike shops.