ERIC GAUSTER: What is your earliest cycling memory?
DAVID D: When age 7 I got riding for the first time after bombing around on 1 stabilizer for months. I bent and broke off that stabilizer which felt like pulling out a wonky milk tooth. It was on a Raleigh single speed bike with a white mudguard.

EG: Where would someone most likely bump into you on your bike?
DD: Anywhere in London, I live north, I work south, I ride alone, with friends, east and west, on main roads and scenic routes. OK I’ll come clean. Most likely to be found around fakenger land. The hipster spice route and in Look Mum No Hands:)

EG: What’s the best and worst thing about current cycling culture?
DD: Worst and saddest is when anyone gets harmed. I don’t understand how we as a society tolerate behaviour by people who use such dangerous machines as cars in a sloppy and negligent manner. This is not an issue with cycling culture but with driving culture. I have no issue with any aspect of cycling culture and love the fact that such a simple machine gives so much joy and fun to so many people. (Though understanding why people ride geared bikes all the time is beyond me).

EG: Where’s the best place you have discovered by bicycle?
DD: Discovering amazing archaeological remains near Capernecum on the Sea Of Galilee with my then girlfriend Rachel, a nurse from the Christian Hospital in Nazereth . We used to ride around that ‘Sea’ in a day stopping off for skinny dipping in that beautiful freshwater lake.

EG: What really annoys you in life generally?
DD: Not much annoys me. I suppose behaviour whether by individuals which harms others or societal norms which insist on certain behaviours because populist (Daily Mail) opinion would make changing these ideas harm someone’s political acceptance. Transport/drug/medical laws which harm rather than act to reduce harm.

EG: Favourite post-ride foodstuff?
DD: Mangos peaches, summer fruit (and cake)

EG: What music currently moves you?
DD: Hearing my girlfriend Jude sing and play her guitar.