Miscellaneous

Royal Mail destroys woman’s £323 inflatable bike helmet – because it contains compressed gas

Hovding helmets inflate on impact - and it turns out Royal Mail won't handle them

Yorkshire’s pothole crisis: £1 billion of repairs needed, but Tour de France route being fixed

Under-funded councils desperate for more money for road maintenance

Cycle Surgery to open 30th store in former Olympic Park

Customers will be able to try out bikes on road and MTB circuits or pop in to the velodrome for coffee

Merseyside woman thrown from bike by rope strung across path

Two teenage girls arrested in connection with attack

Opinion: We’ve worked hard to cater for every club, says Lee Valley park authority in row over Olympic Velopark access

Management of Olympic cycling venues responds to criticism

Another cyclist follows satnav on to motorway

Police rescue M3 rider before he ends up in Bracknell

Coroner: “No doubt” that pothole caused crash that killed cyclist

Inquest hears police reported pothole to N Yorks council 5 weeks before fatal incident but nothing done despite 2 inspections

Graeme Obree launches petition urging Glasgow 2014 to shun Ugandan MPs who backed anti-gay law

Former world champion says no invites should be sent to backers of controversial legislation

Lance Armstrong wins temporary halt to $12m SCA Promotions case

Dallas appeal court suspends arbitration hearing as it reviews case and says Armstrong won't have to be questioned under oath

Updated: Two cyclists in court over Cape Town road rage incident (+ video)

Muhammedeyeh Cycling Club says it “vigorously and vehemently condemns" behaviour of those involved

Top Gear: Cyclist’s widow tells Jeremy Clarkson: ‘Look me in the eye’

Debbie Dorling says Sunday night's "distressing" episode of BBC show “totally missed the point of cycle safety”

London woman reunited with stolen bike – after police stop pavement cyclist 13 miles away

Officers say case highlights value of registering your frame number on database

CTC seeks new chief executive

Cycling charity seeks new boss as Gordon Seabright heads to Cornwall

Video: South Africa cycling organisations condemn cyclists’ road rage attack on van driver

Punches thrown, pepper spray used in incident in Cape Town on Sunday morning

Corporate sessions hogging track time at London’s Olympic velodrome, say local cycling groups

Olympic legacy venue hard to use for riders it was supposed to benefit

Dave Rayner Fund rider’s bike stolen from parents’ garage in Norfolk

Tom Fitzpatrick fears theft of bike days before he heads to Belgium may wreck pro dream

Cyclo-medics – St John Ambulance want first-aiders on bikes

The Sussex St John Ambulance are recruiting cyclists to join their Cycle Response Unit

Yorkshireman launches specialist Yorkshire Grand Départ Guide

We talk to Rob Cowen, the brains behind the expert guide to enjoying Yorkshire during this year’s Tour de France

Trek Project One competition – we have a winner!

The votes are in and verified, and someone's in the pink...

Cyclist stopped and fined for riding on the M25

Man was using GPS phone app to try and find a quicker route home from work

Video: Gone in six seconds — thief with no tools yanks bike off railing

"Get a D-lock" say Norfolk police

Essex police: If cyclists were more safety-conscious they wouldn’t get killed

Crackdown continues on cyclists legally riding without helmets and high-visibility clothing

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Pinarello Dogma stolen from sportive bike park by thief in cycling clothing

Quick police action leads to bike recovery

Sir Dave Brailsford to give England footballers pre-World Cup pep talk

Roy Hodgson enlists help of GB and Sky boss - but can he help players tame their inner chimp if game goes to penalties?

Man gets payout after ambulance that picked him up from bike crash injures him even more

Mountain biker was hurt when ambulance carrying him braked suddenly and hit head

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 the council that gave up on cycling, the M&S trousers that are taking on Rapha, and the laughing van driver who attempted to take out an entire club run

Feeling low? Get some air from one of Bristol’s five new municipal bike pumps

Sturdy municipal bike pumps are rolling out across the country - is there one near you?

Drunk, ‘aggressive and petulant’ speeding van driver jailed for two years for hit and run that left cyclist without an arm

Driver asked his landlord to cover for him after leaving injured cyclist for dead in the road

Leader of club run driven at by laughing van man tells of attack

"He and his passenger were gesticulating and laughing. The intention was to run us off the road."

road.cc’s Elaine Curtin selected as one of the 50 most influential people in UK cycling

“A long-established player in the bicycle industry” says trade mag BikeBiz