Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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The Jack Rabbit is very neat, but no pedals. So it's a primitive Motor Bike not an ebike in the UK legal sense? Throttle only?
"driver of a Range Rover"... Says it all, really. What do you expect?
I liked the tweets which called it a Rage Rover.
I do like the converticycle cargo bike. It's a really neat piece of design. The rear end is a bit reminiscent of a Moulton frame with its cantilever design so I hope there isn't an issue of patent infringement.
I want a BFG9000 and a Railgun for good measure just for BMW and Audi drivers... can we make them a thing.
I wanna go on that spin bike with the big screen!!
I'm continually astonished and amazed at the ingenuity and general all round cleverness of so many of my fellow human beings. The inflatable gilet has me gobsmacked with admiration at the ability of people to design pointless, useless crazy things while real problems go unsolved.
The gilet, like the helmet, won't make cycling any safer, not least because it doesn't protect the most vulnerable parts of the body, won't prevent serious injury and last but not least, risk compensation.
Please tell me it's April the first and I've suddenly woken up from a coma.
I found it hilarious. Rier demonstrates by gently dismounting onto a crashmat at less than walking speed... then the video shows a dummy faceplanting into a car and then the tarmac. Amazingly stupid design... unless you fall off your bike and into a body of water
Sod an inflatable jacket, I want a rocket powered ejector seat to propel me to safety.
Indeed... the crash-test video was not especially encouraging.
It did show just how hideous and potentially dangerous even a low speed collision like that is on a bike, just the sort that results from a driver pulling out, or turning, in front of a cyclist.
Similar videos should be included in 'driver awareness' courses.