Miscellaneous

DfT launches road sign consultation – with strong focus on cycling infrastructure

Planned changes including low-level traffic signals and removing feeder lanes to ASLs

Reckon you can commentate? Eurosport competition will see someone win VIP trip to Paris (+ video)

TV channel gives choice of three races to upload your commentary on for chance to be at Tour de France finale

Manchester bike thieves are targeting top riders, says Paralympic tandem pilot

“We are being watched," says Lauryn Therin

Video: Cycling commuters caught unaware in Tesco Mobile ad

In a Remi Gaillard-esque advert a bunch of dreary commuters have their journey brightened up

Riccardo Riccò reportedly caught red-handed buying doping products

Cyclist, banned until 2024, cited along with another rider after trying to buy EPO and testosterone in McDonald's car park

Devon woman killed in Bolivia while cycling round world with husband

Sharon Bridgman hit from behind by 4x4 after apparently swerving into its path

Riders banned from New Forest sportives for urinating in public

UK Cycling Events takes action against 18 riders it says broke its rules

Cyclist reunited with £7k Colnago – three years after it was stolen

Owner tracked down by fellow cyclist who had bought bike at car boot sale for £180

Seven days in cycling: Your weekly catch up service of the week’s big news stories on road.cc

This week's slice of cycling life features a dream pavé machine, a white van man getting his for video road rage assault, the Canadian woman suing the family of a cyclist she killed and more...

Driver who killed teen cyclist sues his family – because “her enjoyment of life… has been lessened”

Motorist Sharlene Simon says that death of 17-year-old Brandon Majeski has caused her "great pain and suffering"

Has Boris Bike price hike put off London’s cycle hire users?

Despite significant expansion of the cycle hire scheme, use is down by 1.1m journeys on last year

Updated: Casting agent inundated after Emmerdale cyclist extras appeal – no more please!

ITV's Yorkshire-set soap was looking for cycling extras for Tour de France-themed episodes

Thick as Thieves – Man who stole £2.5k e-bike phones owner for help in recharging it

Bike was stolen in Hackney from Ben Jaconelli - who happens to be GoCycle's authorised dealer for East London

Eric Pickles turns down Cambridge councillors’ car vs bike challenge

Minister accuses councillors of misrepresenting him on "anti-car dogma" and cycling "elite" comments made last year

Haribo Beacon says prompt first aid saved rider Levi Moody’s life after cardiac arrest

18-year-old from Halifax given CPR by team staff and race medics, now stable in hospital

Cabbie who blamed cyclist after he maimed pedestrian back behind the wheel

Victim suing city and driver for £16m

Cyclist who was first British casualty of WWI ‘may have been killed by friendly fire’ (+ video)

Private John Parr was aged around 15 at time of death; cyclists killed in war to be remembered at Meriden next month

200 fined by police in Cambridge clampdown on law-breaking cyclists and drivers

Fines issued to cyclists include 50 for riding wrong way up one-way street

Kent motorist branded “a danger to cyclists” by judge is jailed for 10 months

Anger at cyclists riding two abreast led to Martin Hook knocking one off bike, causing him and fellow rider broken bones

Seven days in cycling: Your weekly catch up service of the week’s big news stories on road.cc

This week's slice of cycling life features one of the most phenomenal rides Strava has ever seen, some bad behaviour in the New Forest, Lance Armstrong getting down and dirty with an inner tube and much more...

£2 million from Local Sustainable Transport Fund for nine projects across England

Schemes in Tyne & Wear and West Yorkshire take three quarters of the money between them

Beryl Burton stage play is ‘the recognition Mum deserves’ says cyclist daughter

Yorkshire Festival will run alongside Tour de Yorkshire providing cultural entertainment

Bike-powered 3D printer turns plastic cups into bike parts

Bringing recycling and technology to the masses via cycling

Police safety warning to cyclists tackling Yorkshire Tour de France routes, new app highlights hazards (+ video)

Ride within your limits, say North Yorkshire Police - safety drive follows serious incident earlier this month

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Tell Mavic what you're really looking for in your performance tyres

Texas truck drivers arrested for killing cyclist and trying to dump his body in a ditch

Keen cyclist was catapulted into the back of a pickup truck by collision; police find drivers disposing of body in drainage ditch

Don’t take bikes on trains for Tour de France, say rail companies

Normal cycle policies will apply on rail network, without reservation you could be disappointed

Widow of charity cyclist Christian Smith to complete ride her husband was killed on

Donations now more than £80,000 - family hoping that total will hit six figures

Drink-driver who killed two cyclists sentenced to 10 years 3 months in jail

Alexander Walter already banned, over twice alcohol limit, doing 70mph in a 30mph zone when he killed John Morland and Kris Jarvis

More MEPs from UK than any other country voted against EU safer lorry proposals

Nigel Farage and fellow UKIP MEPs - past and present - led opposition to revised rules partly designed to protect cyclists and pedestrians