But it's really in understanding what drives cyclists, and their reactions to certain things, that drives this cartoon strip. Rick's research was simply riding to work over a two year period, and overhearing conversations in bike stores. In January the characters were born, and things started regularly on 22nd January 2008.

Since then virtually every strip has carried a thought or idea which most of us will have experienced already, or understand. Some ideas are taken to extremes (such as the over-protective mother insisting her son dons a helmet to try out a bike in the shop); others are straightforward cycling advocacy (signs telling cyclists to stop and walk); and some just there for the humour value (customers buying bikes that are never going to be ridden; the bike ninja; thwacking a bike thief with a U-lock).

One story line got me wondering, however, where a few strips seem to be suggesting that bike lanes are the solution to all our problems. I ask Rick if this is his own view: "Nope, and Yehuda will figure this out (as will the community). I wrote the following to a reader: "Yehuda's a misguided advocate, though his heart is in the right place when he wants to carve out a piece of the asphalt for cyclists. He sees a time in the not-so-distant future when automobiles own the road (completely), and travel on them at speeds above 35mph regularly. This will leave no room on the roads for cyclists, thus relegating them to the ghetto that is the bike path - that recreational disaster that meanders and never transports its commuters to their destination in a timely fashion. Painting the bike lanes just staves off the inevitable for a bit longer."

Like any cartoonist Rick has his influences (Chester Gould (Dick Tracy - from the 60s and 70s); James Kochalka (American Elf); Seth (Wimbledon Green); Jack Kirby (Marvel Comics)) but Yehuda Moon carries its own distinctive look, although even this look has evolved in the small space of time the strip has been running.

And in that small time Yehuda seems to have picked up quite a following. We've got it firmly planted in our favourites here at cc Towers, and can only suggest that you do the same by visiting the Yehuda Moon website.