Transport

Flexispot to launch Kickstarter for desk with built-in exercise bike

It's a part-exercise bike, part-standing desk that you can set up in a minute and even includes resistance levels for a cycling workout at work...

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Brompton launch their first e-bike

The iconic folding bike manufacturer have launched their first e-bike, that can be reserved now for an early 2018 delivery

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11 things we’ve learned this week

Froome approaching immortality, motorway madness and no one's ashamed of tan lines. Here are 11 things we've learned this week...

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Cycling app of the week: Komoot

This app gives you navigation, voice commands and shareable data all in one place...

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Sven Cycles announce modification service… so their bikes can fit inside a rucksack or briefcase

Dorset-based handmade bike brand Sven Cycles are proving it's not just Bromptons that are train and plane friendly with the announcement of their modification service...

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11 things we’ve learned this week

Serious Tour drama, Britain goes hire bike-mad and more close-pass scrutiny - here are 11 things we've learned this week...

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Dockless bike-share scheme oBike lands in London

Promises to add hundreds more bikes a day throughout the month

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AA president and economist propose £5bn cycling infrastructure fund

Wolfson Economics Prize submission proposes ‘Road Miles’ system to fund infrastructure

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Campaigners say IAM RoadSmart is trying to ‘undermine’ 20mph speed limits

20’s Plenty For Us points to WHO recommendation that 20mph is the right speed limit where vehicles conflict with pedestrians and cyclists

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Virgin Trains East Coast ‘working on’ online cycle reservations

Cyclists fear online bike booking feature will be quietly dropped

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MET reveal new Trenta helmet

Ahead of the official launch next week, MET have dropped a teaser vid of their latest lid...

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11 things we’ve learned this week

Tour predictions, too may near misses and a glowing endorsement of the humble fiver. Here's 11 bike-themed things we've learned this week...

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Do motorcyclists and cyclists make safer road users?

Two wheels good, four wheels bad

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Mobike dockless bike share scheme coming to Manchester and Salford – what will it mean for local cyclists?

£1 an hour – and you don’t even have to find a docking station at the end of your ride

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University of Brighton seeks PhD candidate to research “datafication of cycling”

Project will look at how cycling big data can be used to influence transport planning

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India launches first bicycle share scheme

The first bicycle sharing initiative in the country has launched, bringing 450 bicycles and 48 docking stations to the city of Mysuru

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11 things we’ve learned this week

Dumoulin's a champ, a change of colours for Team Sky and dreaming of a team of Cavs...

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Never use Tesla Autopilot feature around cyclists, warns robotics expert

She says people would be killed

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11 things we’ve learned this week

More drama at the Giro, Britain demands more cycle paths and a very grateful kitten...

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Cycling App of the Week: Relive

Create a quality visual map of your rides with Relive, our Cycling App of the Week

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11 things we’ve learned this week

Premature celebrations, road rage a-plenty and a high-speed bear chase: we round up the week on two wheels...

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Unboxing: microSHIFT Centos 11 Groupset

microSHIFT have been on the fringes of the big three groupset brands for a number of years, and are back with their latest 11-speed effort...

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Driverless shuttle test set for London shared-use cycle path

Oxford-based autonomous tech firm will run test on Greenwich riverside over the next three weeks

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London’s most dangerous junctions scheduled for improvement

Kings Cross gyratory, Lambeth Bridge North and South, Waterloo Imax roundabout and Euston Road among junctions being targeted, alongside a new safer junctions programme

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E-W cycle superhighway extension won’t be built until 2021

Further delays to protected cycle route in bike infrastructure-impoverished West London

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Chinese bike-sharing firm Ofo trying to prevent under-age riders after 11-year-old’s death

Firm’s bikes will soon be available for hire in Cambridge

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New road schemes create more traffic concludes study

Government road-building programme will achieve nothing but increased demand for roads, according to Campaign to Protect Rural England

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Drivers must not become over-reliant on technology, says IAM RoadSmart

House of Lords report encourages behavioural research

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Air pollution worse for drivers than cyclists on same Bath road

Car’s air intakes are generally at the level of the exhaust pipe of the car in front

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Cycle award winning boss of waste management firm questions feasibility of mayor’s HGV rating system

Says Direct Vision Standard proposals are ‘too ambitious’

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