The Topeak Swing-Up Bike Holder is a high-class solution to the problem of keeping lots of bikes tidy, or one bike in a very small space. Just be aware of the weight and tyre width limits.The premise is very simple: instead of a static wall hook you have a hook that is hinged, so your … Read more
Campaigners for safer streets for vulnerable road users will stage a protest today outside Kensington Town Hall.The group Stop Killing Cyclists is also holding a die-in a vigil in memory of the female cyclist killed by a left-turning tipper truck at the junction of Grosvenor Road and Chelsea Bridge last month.While the fatal crash took … Read more
A data analyst has used police data to produce a visualisation that starkly illustrates the scale of bike theft in the England & Wales. Meanwhile, separate analysis of data from the same source has revealed that more students at the University of Oxford fall victim to bike theft than their counterparts at any other leading higher education … Read more
A new report produced by Centre for London says that motorists will have to give up residential car parking with greater transport emphasis instead being placed on trains, buses and bikes. The think tank advocates reallocation of space to create more segregated cycle lanes and priority bus lanes.The BBC reports on The Future of London’s … Read more
The Xeccon Mars 30 rear light has generally build and better presence than the numbers would imply. However, the bracket, though not beyond redemption, needs redesigning.TechnologyInside the big clear ABS plastic dome (which reminded me of a Portuguese man ‘o war, without the tentacles) sit 30 ‘chip on board’ LEDs.Sitting them directly on the PCB … Read more
The World Olympians Association (WOA) chief executive has advocated fitting athletes with microchips as the next step in the fight against doping. “We’re prepared to chip our dogs and it doesn’t seem to harm them, so why aren’t we prepared to chip ourselves?” said Mike Miller, who said he was “just throwing the idea out … Read more
The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has released a statement following a furious reaction to the decision not to run a close pass operation in Cambridge due to lack of road space. However, campaigners say that Jason Ablewhite has utterly missed the point and has failed to explain why police have … Read more
On the same weekend the fifth edition of the Transcontinental Race got under way this summer, a new bikepacking race began in Europe – this one taking the riders 4,000 kilometres from Italy to Norway.Now, the organisers of the race, called the NorthCape4000, have looking back at this year’s inaugural event.In all, 41 riders completed … Read more
Around $1.5 million has been invested into the research so far at the University of Michigan, part-funded by the software company Tome themselves and also the Trek Corporation, with the aim of making cycling safer by allowing cars and bikes to ‘talk’ to each other using artificial intelligence. The suggested products, described by Trek’s brand manager Eric Bjorling as … Read more
With their physical protection from motor traffic, London’s latest generation of Cycle Superhighways are transforming cycling in the capital, but even somewhere you might assume would be safe can be the scene of a scary encounter with motor traffic.YouTube user Ethno Cyclist uploaded this video yesterday taken on Upper Thames Street in the City of London as … Read more
