Innovation

“3 per cent is still a chance…” says recovering quadriplegic aiming at Paralympics

Man given a 3 per cent chance of recovery after a near-fatal spinal injury aims for Paralympics on unique Titanium trike

Vanmoof’s unstealable, ultra smart city bike up for preorder

The Dutch city bike company's brand new, high-tech, 'smartest thing on wheels' SmartBike is available for preorders from May 31

Improve cycling in 5 UK cities with Cyclehack, June 24-26

London, Manchester, Glasgow, Cambridge & Chesterfield will host infrastructure and design brainstorm events

Gardening keeping you off the bike? Not with this new bicycle mower!

Take your lawnmower for a spin - it's as easy as riding a bike

Video: Dutchman to cycle round the world – using an amphibious bike

Ebrahim Hemmatnia says trip is to encourage free exchange of ideas throughout the world

Google patents pedestrian (and cyclist?) protecting sticky bonnet for self driving cars

Many injuries occur when person hit by car is thrown to ground

World’s loudest bike alarm looking for funding via Kickstarter

Device emits a 150db blast when triggered

Canadian team working on gesture-controlled indicators for cyclists

Kickstarter campaign now underway

Power assist front wheel smashes Kickstarter target – but best read the small print

GeoOrbital’s 500W motor enables speeds of 20mph – meaning it doesn’t meet UK e-bike regulations

Bike Club: Pay-as-you-grow scheme for kids’ bikes

For a fiver a month, the Bike Club means your kids' bikes will grow with them

Designer digitally renders bicycles drawn from memory

Gianluca Gimini has digitally rendered bicycles drawn from memory in his Velocipedia project - with strange and beautiful results

PodRide – a practical everyday electric “bicycle-car”

It has four wheels, so we’re not entirely convinced by the ‘bicycle’ part of that description

Omata hits $150,000 Kickstarter target in 2 days

The analogue GPS speedometer has proven a hit with cyclists, 200 of whom pledged upwards of $499 to own one

Google’s self-driving bicycle: bike or fiction?

We missed this on Friday, so here it is for your viewing pleasure - an answer to the Dutch cycling problem

London team puts together riderless bike prototype

What about potholes? Who’ll pick it up should it fall over?

Traffic lights that detect cyclists coming to York

Thermal imaging technology will identify riders' heat signatures and adjust phasing as they approach

Team Sky – coming to a Virtual Reality device near you

Sky to record and broadcast 360 degree "immersive" footage of Team Sky in its Tour de France preparations, as well as Formula 1, boxing and entertainment

Video: Man builds world’s heaviest (860kg) bike

No problem with UCI weight limit, then? Guinness World Record holder Jeff Peeters' machine makes light work of cobbles

Video: Brompton joins the Internet of Things

Bike could become environmental monitor and home alarm as well as detecting crashes

Google defends driverless car project after collision

Points out that on other occasions collisions have been avoided when a human driver would probably have failed to do so

Video: Martyn Ashton takes more great steps forward

Rehabilitation continues as paralysed trials ace goes for a "stroll" with his Parawalker

Marginal gains come to beer drinkers at Track Worlds (+ gallery)

Stackable cups from Lee Valley VeloPark help you carry more back to your seat, without spilling

Polluted Milan could pay citizens to cycle to work

The initiative is seen as one option to tackle the city's air pollution woes

Man builds 6.5ft weather station on bike

That's another use for the humble bicycle...complete with a 6.5 foot aluminium weather tower

Uber-style courier app hits funding target with ease

Street Stream raises £100,000 target in just 11 days

Copenhagen’s “intelligent” traffic lights will speed up journeys for cyclists

Danish capital says signals able to identify people on bikes will cut journey times by a tenth

Plymouth cyclists needed to trial pothole app

Software employs user votes as a means of identifying priority issues

London cyclists can earn while they ride – with digital ad panels (+ video)

Start-up firm Lacuna Digital launches innovative system at start of June

Bat survey edges Rhondda Tunnel closer to realisation

One estimate suggests the project to re-open Wales' longest tunnel for walking and cycling could yield £14.3m economic benefits over 30 years

London’s first driverless cars revealed… and they’ll be driving on the pavement

GATEway project to run three month test to gauge public response