Power player: Dr Julian Huppert MP, vice chair of the Federal Policy Committee (the Lib Dems breeding ground for manifesto fodder), and co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group. He’s MP for Cambridge, the poster-city of cycling-investment.

What have they promised?

Some pretty exceptional things: not only do they pledge to hit the £10 per head of funding figure, they hope to go even further by increasing that to £20 per head. That’s a huge amount of money for cycling – so much so that The Telegraph have listed it as one of the Lib Dems seven maddest policies. Reason alone to vote for them then, surely?

Do we believe them?

Yep. The Lib Dems have been all over cycling, and like to count it as a big ideological issue rather than a niche aspect of transport policy. They’re keen on pressing the point that they aren’t quite sure why the other parties are moaning so much: they reckon reallocating a fraction of the Department for Transport’s budget will more than cover their plans.

But it’s easy to make grandiose claims about injecting billions of pounds into maintaining cycling infrastructure when you know you haven’t got a hope in two hells of being back in power in May.

What about changes other than money?

No promises, but they are loud and proud about their desire to see 20mph be the default speed limit in many areas, they think every child should get Bikeability training, and they would immediately outline a cycling investment strategy after the election if they got into power.

Do they get it?

Yep. Well, Julian Huppert certainly does: he has the sense to know it’ll save the NHS money when it comes to mental health bills as well as physical, and he just seems pretty stoked on bicycles. If Huppert were to actually be given some power in the (totally unlikely) event of a Lib Dem government, he’d do some good shit. Or he’d do the opposite. #UniFees.

Manifesto update: As expected, the Lib Dem manifesto says the party would implement the suggestions of the Get Britain Cycling report. Hurrah!