I started cycling on a tricycle (photograph proves it) 

I used a touring bike handed down from my father to ride to secondary school in Walsall, for rides to Sutton Park and Barr Beacon etc - and occasionally to Aston University in Birmingham. I suppose like most youths I gave up cycling when I got my first car. In the mid 1970's I got a folding shopper bike (a Raleigh Stowaway) to use around Birmingham or to cycle to or from from work in the city centre when I cound get a lift the other way.

In 1979 I became a founder member of PushBikes a group campaigning for better facilities for cyclists in Birmingham I’m still a member, but not very active now.
See Pushbikes

Although it’s still considered rather eccentric (although not so much as it was) I still cycle around Birmingham on my Dawes Galaxy touring bike (shopping, to work, etc.) and on accasional rides into the countryside. I find cycling is the best way to get around: avoiding jams, easy parking, saving money and the environment, and getting some exercise. I bought a new Galaxy, my third, in September 2008 to replace my 15 years old one. I got a good deal from the bike shop connected with the College where I work

I am fortunate to have Route 5 of the National Cycle Network passing 100 metres from home: this gors towards the city centre and out to the countryside.. 

I still have my Bickerton Portable small wheel folder which I take occasionaly when going away.

I report road defects in Birmingham using the Council on-line form