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“Perfect” handlebar will be cycling’s “biggest aero advancement” in 2025, claim creators… plus the £200 Ineos-approved recovery socks, a new social media app for cyclists + more

We’ve got a belter of an edition of Tech of the Week to bring you this week, not least because of some folks making some pretty big claims about their products. Yep, we’ve been told about the “perfect” handlebar that will be the “biggest aero advancement in road cycling” next year… perhaps, and some “cutting-edge” £200 recovery … Read more

Cyclists can’t reach proposed active travel route due to town centre bike ban, as “crazy” plans slammed as “white elephant” that will not benefit cycling

Proposals to install a new toucan crossing near Bedworth town centre, as part of a planned ‘Green Corridor’ for active travel connecting a park to a new leisure centre, have been dubbed a “white elephant” by one local councillor, who claims cyclists won’t be able to reach the crossing thanks to the town’s bike ban.Cycling … Read more

Chamois Butt’r Original

Chamois Butt’r Original is well priced, helps to reduce friction and doesn’t make a mess, though it doesn’t seem to last as long as the Coconut variety.As with the coconut version, it comes in both a tube and as individual sachets. Using the tube it’s super easy to squeeze out however much you need, and … Read more

“If he’d stayed in his lane, I would have seen him”: Pavement parking taxi driver banned for injuring cyclist after pulling out without indicating – but barrister blames cyclist’s poor “lane discipline” for crash

A taxi driver who was banned from the roads for 12 months after pulling out without indicating and hitting a cyclist, leaving him with a “horrific” arm fracture, blamed the injured rider for the collision, arguing in court that if “he’d negotiated the roundabout properly I would have seen him”.Stephen Bennett, a 50-year-old taxi driver … Read more

Conservative government “pursued poisonous culture wars” between cyclists and drivers, says new transport secretary – as Labour vows to “take back streets” for all road users

Labour’s Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has vowed to “take back streets” for cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers, after accusing the previous Conservative administration of pursuing “poisonous culture wars against road users of all descriptions”.Haigh, who promised in July to invest “unprecedented levels of funding” in cycling as part of the new government’s plans to place active … Read more