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How to properly secure your bike in a shed or garage
While we often think about bike security through the lens of being out and about, using locks in public places and riding to the shops, the vast majority of your bicycle’s life will be spent sat at home between rides.Therefore, nailing how you store your bike at home should probably be top of your priority list to keep it safe … Read more
“What a stressful morning”: Olympic champion’s race bike stolen… and found in bush by local schoolchild hours later
“Oof, what a stressful morning.” That was how Jolanda Neff summed up the start of her Thursday, after the former Olympic mountain bike champion woke up to discover that her Cannondale race bike had been stolen by thieves from her house in Switzerland overnight.But fortunately for the four-time European XC champion, the special edition bike … Read more
“Sainsbury’s only thinks about car drivers”: Supermarket slammed for closing cycle access during works, diverting cyclists onto narrow footway or “fast and busy” dual carriageway
Cyclists in Colchester have criticised Sainsbury’s, accusing the supermarket giant of ignoring customers who use bikes, after the store closed its pedestrian and cycle access “without warning”, prompting a council investigation.The route’s closure, preventing cyclists from accessing the Tollgate, Stanway branch of Sainsbury’s from Essex Yeomanry Way, means that people arriving at the store on … Read more
Halfords Advanced 23cm D lock
The Halfords Advanced 23cm D lock is really good value and put up a much better than average fight against the dreaded road.cc angle grinder. It’s pretty cheap, and not especially heavy, and for all those reasons it’s easy to recommend, especially if you have a bag to sling it in – the bracket is … Read more
Hunt revamps Aerodynamicist wheel range to offer “class-leading aerodynamic performance-to-weight metrics with wide road tyres”
Hunt has unveiled three new wheelsets in its Aerodynamicist carbon wheel range, boasting that they offer “class-leading aerodynamic performance-to-weight metrics with wide road tyres”. That’s “wide” by traditional road race standards; we’re talking about wheels optimised for 28mm and 30mm tyre widths here. 2025 Hunt Aerodynamicist 44_46 Carbon Disc rim (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)The new … Read more
Stop whining about Lime bikes: they’re currently the jewel in Britain’s diminutive active travel crown
Over the last few weeks, there have been headlines across the UK talking about the disaster of shared bikes being left in large numbers on residential streets. Whether this was after the boat race, where people had the audacity to leave some bikes in Putney, people in Norbiton seeing them as an eyesore, and Brent … Read more
“Ludicrous adversarial clickbait”: BBC asks, “Is public sympathy for cyclists wearing thin?” – as around-the-world cyclist Mark Beaumont claims Jeremy Vine’s bike videos “encourage division”
Cyclists have accused the BBC of “adversarial clickbait framing” and promoting an anti-cycling agenda, following a Radio Scotland call-in debate which asked listeners: “Is public sympathy for cyclists wearing thin?”The discussion, which formed the headline topic on Radio Scotland’s Mornings programme on Wednesday, comes in the same week BBC broadcaster Jeremy Vine announced he will … Read more
