In an image reminiscent of a picture from Hans Kemps’ wonderful book Bikes of Burden, full of photos of the frankly insane loads that some in South East Asia carry on their motorcycles, a cyclist in Cambridge amazed onlookers and brought traffic to a halt as he pedalled past with a fridge – and not … Read more
CycloClean, a bicycle adapted with a pump and filtration system, is being deployed to help provide drinking water in places where it is needed through pedal power, with source water drawn from places such as rivers, ponds, swimming pools and even bathing water, providing the latter is free of bathtub agents.Designed primarily for emergency use, … Read more
The Prostate Cancer Charity is to become the official charity partner of the Great Weston Ride.Described by its organisers as a recreational challenge ride and taking place on Sunday July 17, the ride starts in Bristol and offers participants a spectacular West Country route through the Mendips and across the Somerset Levels before finishing by … Read more
Best get that vintage Harris jacket out of mothballs and down to the dry cleaners – now firmly established on the London cycling calendar after its first two hugely successful editions, The Tweed Run returns for its third edition on Saturday 9 April, and organisers promise that the event will this year be better than … Read more
Performance Cycles have added a sixth and final event to their winter mini-sportive series which has been designed to help motivate riders over the colder months. In common with the rest of the series the event will be a pared down sportive devoid of timing chips and feed stations and will take place on Sunday … Read more
Police in Spain have arrested at least five people as part of an anti-doping operation, reports the Catalan newspaper, Vanguardia, citing sources close to the investigation, with EPO and clenbuterol among the substances seized that are believed to have been supplied to athletes.The arrests were made by regional police force the Mossos d’Esquadra in various … Read more
A teenage cyclist in Manchester has been fined for dangerous cycling following the death of a pensioner who had been a passenger on a bus that he caused to brake hard through his cycling. Louie Palmer, aged 79, broke her neck after the bus driver was forced to execute an emergency stop.Salford Youth Court was … Read more
Transport for London and the Mayor’s Office have today announced that 13 of London’s outer boroughs, the so-called Biking Boroughs, are to get £4m to spend to “create a local cycling culture” .The money is not going to be sliced up in to 13 equal shares though (of £307,692.31p each) instead the boroughs will be … Read more
Cycling, among other outdoor pursuits, is set to take centre stage in The National Trust’s strategy with a host of initiatives and events including seven sportive rides this year as the charity, typically associated in the public mind with stately homes but also responsible for a variety of outdoor space, announces what it describes as … Read more
Darlingtonians (which may or may not be the name for residents of the County Durham town) are being invited to consider the state of their town’s cycle lane network and discuss plans for improving it.If you are one of them, you may want to get yourself along to Darlington Media Workshop, behind the Arts Centre, … Read more
