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“We’ve lost everything”: Thieves disable CCTV and cut phone lines as “devastated” bike shop the latest cycling business targeted in organised overnight raid

Almost 30 high-value bikes, as well as parts and accessories, stolen from Pedal Power Cycles in Suffolk during "very well organised crime"

Tue, Mar 25, 2025 12:14

“A massive opportunity to make roads safer”: Police reveal councils don’t currently have access to close pass data, as cyclist urges forces and local authorities to work together

Do local authorities need access to police data on close passes and other roads incidents to protect cyclists and plan effective infrastructure?

Mon, Mar 24, 2025 17:05

Near Miss of the Day 924: “I bloody love having a truck driven at me,” says cyclist after hat-trick of close calls

Essex Police defended its “no further action” decision by claiming there “no actual reference points” to determine proximity of the vehicle from the rider, who submitted a “hat-trick of near misses”

Wed, Mar 19, 2025 16:12

Boys arrested in New Mexico over cyclist death

13-year-old driver and passenger, 15, charged with murder in New Mexico after deliberately hitting cyclist in bike lane and uploading footage to social media

Police said another passenger, aged 11, was taken into custody but is too young for criminal prosecution — the boys accused of deliberately killing a cyclist while travelling in a stolen vehicle with a firearm

Wed, Mar 19, 2025 14:51

Cyclists fined over migrant in bike rack

Home Office cancels cyclists’ £1,500 fine over migrant found inside bike rack

British holidaymakers returning from France drove to their home in Essex before discovering stowaway in covered bike rack on rear of motorhome, the Home Office initially fining the couple for "failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed"

Mon, Mar 17, 2025 10:11

Police arrest 16-year-old after cyclists “deliberately” knocked off their bikes, leaving one with “potentially life-changing injuries”

Essex Police says cyclists injured in weekend incident involving riders of two mopeds, as officers also "carrying out enquiries into two other similar incidents"

Thu, Mar 13, 2025 09:30

Cyclists returning from French road trip fined £1,500 after migrant found inside bike rack on the back of their motorhome

British holidaymakers fined by Home Office for failing to "check that no clandestine entrant was concealed" after discovering migrant had clung to rear bike rack for six-hour journey home

Mon, Mar 10, 2025 17:24

Want more high quality cycling infrastructure? Then stop building sh**e.

George Hill explains why he thinks the building of cycling infrastructure in the UK is currently more bendy bananas than an active travel revolution

Wed, Feb 26, 2025 13:21

“Steal away”: Violent bikejackings targeting cyclists “are doing society a favour”, writes journalist in column claiming latest hammer attacks in Regent’s Park are “excellent”

Times newspaper column claiming cyclists have turned London park "into a circle of hell" and bikejackings "doing society a favour" follows latest reports of cyclists threatened with hammers and pushed off by violent robbers targeting high-value bikes

Tue, Feb 25, 2025 10:41

Drug driver who killed teenage cyclist while speeding at 70mph in 30mph zone jailed for eight years

Police investigation found "incredibly reckless" driver was at more than twice the speed limit and had cocaine and cannabis in his system at the time of the collision

Mon, Feb 24, 2025 16:52