With Prudential Ride London, aka the world’s largest festival of cycling, over for another year, we take a look back at this year’s highlights – and lowlights.There was some negative publicity around the annual event, including complaints the residents along the route were trapped in their homes.On the plus side, millions of pounds were raised for charities … Read more
—-This article has been updated—-UCL is asking to hear people’s opinions on mixed use paths – routes where both cyclists and pedestrians use the same space. Researchers at UCL are carrying out the survey, supported by Sustrans, to find out what they think of paths were people cycling and walking share space without any measure of … Read more
Metropolitan Police are appealing for help tracing men responsible for a series of knifepoint robberies targeting Hackney towpath users in four separate, brutal incidents in as many days. On Tuesday 1 August two cyclists were mugged just minutes apart, while a further two robberies took place on Wednesday and Friday. People are warned to be careful using … Read more
1. Leaving bike pumps on the pavement isn’t ‘fine’ in Tower Hamlets… After Tower Hamlets council decided to fine a bike shop for leaving their pump, free for the public to use, in a place that could potentially hazardous, a fine was issues which caused a national outrage. Eventually an agreement was made to move … Read more
The Boardman Women’s Short Sleeve Cycling Jersey is a lovely everyday top at a great price. Boardman hasn’t messed around giving its jersey a complicated name, nor has it messed around adding unnecessary features to a simple and functional piece of kit.The jersey comes in various bright and tasteful colour schemes, and handily the turquoise … Read more
When Wandsworth Council boasted about seizing scores of new dockless Obikes this week for obstructing pavements, it was perhaps not expecting the response it received. The South London council released a statement yesterday, with a photo of dozens of impounded Obikes saying 130 of the bikes, introduced to the city’s streets last month by a private company, have been impounded for … Read more
A worldwide movement to get older people back out on bikes has launched in Brighton, with crowdfunding for a second adapted bicycle.Cycling Without Age, a volunteer run programme that began in Denmark, uses tricycles with front seating to take the elderly out for a spin.Volunteers sign up for bike rides with the elderly through a … Read more
A bike thief in Manchester gave back the bike he had just stolen – because it had two flat tyres and he couldn’t ride it.A ‘huge guy’ approached Brook Ellis in Chorlton as he pushed along his Specialized Langster.He wrestled the bike from the student but then was unable to ride the bike – because … Read more
The British cyclist Steve Cummings has told of how he finished the Tour de France with two fractured vertebrae – and it’s affecting his fitness for the Vuelta.Responding to a fan on Twitter, the Dimension Data rider said he had fractured the L1 and L2 vertebrae in his lower back.It was in reply to a … Read more
While the Transcontinental race has hogged the headlines another and older, and some might argue, tougher event has been taking place much closer to home – the London-Edinburgh-London Audax.The 1441km route, which features 11,128m of climbing, is so tough the event only takes place every four years. This year’s 1,442 competitors, from around 60 countries, have braved … Read more
