The Amflow TL Carbon is a fun bike with a powerful Avinox motor and a big range. It’s comfy and well-specced, and at £3,199 it’s a bargain. It sizes up small, and you can’t lock out the suspension on the tarmac, but I’m nitpicking: this is an exceptional touring e-bike and easy to recommend.Amflow TL … Read more
New research conducted at Imperial College London has found that, on average, foldable helmets offer less protection against serious head injuries than their conventional counterparts, despite one collapsible helmet model placing second in the study’s safety rankings.The researchers’ headline assertion that non-foldable helmets are generally safer, however, has drawn criticism from a leading folding helmet … Read more
I love old main roads. Bits of high-grade tarmac, superseded and empty. Over time the lack of traffic volume means that nature starts to reclaim them, creeping in from the edges, tendrils heading out into the lanes. It has a deliciously post-apocalyptic feel to it, and on day two of the Ride Cymru, somewhere outside … Read more
The Ravemen FR1100 shows just how much light you can get out of a tiny package these days, and it’s not even the brightest of these lights – there’s a 1,500-lumen version too. The short battery life and diffuse beam mean it’s better as an emergency light than your go-to for night riding though.The FR1100 … Read more
The deputy leader of Westminster Council says it doesn’t know where cyclists continuing to use Oxford Street following its recent pedestrianisation can go, despite the council previously publishing plans for alternative cycle routes.Since the flagship London street was pedestrianised last week, several media outlets have reported on the presence of bike riders along the road … Read more
Italian bike brand Bianchi has asked the courts for protection from its creditors while it restructures its business after several years of losses and operational changes. This is according to a report by Suvi Loponen on the Escape Collective website.The long and the short of it is that Bianchi has asked for creditor protection under … Read more
The Lemmo 3 full-suspension longtail SUV e-bike has absolutely smashed its Kickstarter funding target, raising over US$1 million in pledges in a little over a day. In sterling, the figure currently stands at nearly £900,000 – well over 5,300% of the (admittedly conservative) target, with four weeks to go.Based in Berlin, Germany, Lemmo began the initial … Read more
Last week I wrote about a scumbag in the US who deliberately drove into a group of cyclists then argued that he shouldn’t be punished for it, and how sections of the media across the pond seem to share the same beliefs. Fast forward a week, and in the UK most of us have probably read … Read more
Welcome to our sentencing round-up, a regular compilation of sentencing stories from local publishers and police forces from around the UK, and sometimes internationally in particularly notable cases.All sources are credited with a link, and where a case has been picked up nationally, we’ll always credit local publishers who have attended court. Since our last … Read more
