David Hembrow is a British-Dutch cycling advocate who resides in Assen, Netherlands.
[2] Hembrow is very critical of what he sees poorly executed attempts in his home country of the UK to make cycling in London and in other towns and cities safe.
[3][4] He also sees these attempts as being far too slowly implemented to allow British cycling infrastructure to remotely catch up to anywhere near to even the poorest-serviced Dutch cities in terms of cycling infrastructure.
[5] Hembrow and his family moved from Cambridge, England (where he was once heavily involved in the Cambridge Cycling Campaign[6]) to the Netherlands in 2007 so that they could live in a bicycle-friendly environment.
[7] He used to conduct study tours to show people the cycling infrastructure of the Netherlands but no longer offers them because of the environmental impact of international travel.