Having trouble with free-roaming pedestrians cutting you up on your daily commute? Slightly gullible? Well, help is at hand. Maybe. One frustrated London commuter got so tired with SMIDSY peds that he came up with a novel approach to the problem: the Bike Butterfly.Basically, it’s a set of spring loaded butterfly wings made from what … Read more
The van driver convicted last month of causing the death by careless driving of a senior RAF officer on the A40 last year has been banned from driving for 12 months and given a 12-month community order that will require him to perform 100 hours’ unpaid work. Group Captain Tomas Barrett, aged 44 and station … Read more
Lumicycle’s LED3Si is an excellent light that’s impressive value for money. It’s very similar to Lumicycle’s flagship LED4Si road light but with just three emitters instead of four. Entirely unsurprisingly, that makes the claimed output three-quarters that of the 4Si at 850 lumens. Also unsurprising is that the battery lasts longer, with three hours on the … Read more
A female cyclist who will spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair after being hit by a car driven by an 89-year-old motorist with defective eyesight has received an out-of–court settlement of more than a million pounds in compensation.Christine Glennon from High Wycombe, aged in her 60s, received severe spinal injuries in the … Read more
You may remember our article from a couple of weeks ago about The Stoepedist Week, with six cyclists aiming to ride the routes of five Classics in just seven days – well, to borrow a line from The Italian Job (the original movie, naturally), “Have you heard, sir? They’ve done it!”The group – Bicycling editor … Read more
It’s time to go for a ride, actually it was time to go for a ride about half an hour ago, but I’ve only now finished procrastinating. Just answered those e-mails, just done that little bit of washing up, had another coffee, just played with the cat, just taken the t-shirts off the washing line, … Read more
Lizzie Armitstead has staked a strong claim to spearhead Great Britain’s challenge in the women’s road race at this summer’s Olympic Games after taking her second big win on the Continent in three week’s in yesterday’s first ever women’s Gent-Wevelgem. Her victory comes after current Olympic champion, Nicole Cooke, insisted that the hatchet had been … Read more
As Bespoked Bristol wrapped Sunday evening, Robin Mather who had previously won the judged ‘Best In Show’ award for his ‘Camponneur’ 650B tourer also took the public voted prize and went home happy.It was only the second year of the Bespoked show for custom and boutique bike builders but in its new venue at Brunel’s … Read more
A cyclist in Suffolk has appealed for the return of an Isaac Joule Aerotic time trial bike worth £8,500 that was stolen from the garage of his Newmarket home last Monday morning.Michael Lowther, a firefighter and member of Newmarket Cycling and Triathlon club, quoted in the Newmarket Journal, said: “I am absolutely gutted as the … Read more
The identity of the cyclist who died following last Friday’s hit-and-run incident in Deptford, South East London, last Friday has been confirmed as 17-year-old Olatunji Adeyanju. Known to his friends as TJ, Olatunji had been deputy head boy at Addey and Stanhope School in New Cross before going on to pursue a BTEC in business … Read more
