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Forest booms while Ampler goes bang, councillor singlehandedly solves e-bike parking problems, police get 32 crime-fighting e-bikes + more

Catch up with all this week's electric bike-related goings on...

Fri, May 29, 2026 12:00

London Fire Brigade and Uber Eats tackle flaming e-bike risk, Scotland and Bristol e-bike boom, mystery EU company invests in semi-solid batteries + more

Catch up with all this week's electric bike-related goings on...

Fri, May 22, 2026 12:18

“Post-Covid bike market remains very challenging, particularly for standalone stores”: Long-running bike shop “no longer commercially viable”, closes after 35 years in business

Alpine Bikes to close in Aberdeen despite "extensive efforts" to adapt, as owners highlight ongoing challenges facing the bike industry in recent years

Mon, Nov 11, 2024 18:06

“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

Stephen Bennett was disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined £790, but insisted the collision “wouldn’t have happened if the cyclist had come round the roundabout the proper way”

Fri, Oct 11, 2024 12:12

Sportive forced to relocate due to “dangerous” roads which have led to cyclist injuries… but council classifies the roads as “low-risk”

The organiser asked the Aberdeenshire Council if he could fix the roads himself, but was told that that’d be against the law

Sat, Dec 23, 2023 18:03

HGV driver close passes cyclist, before cyclist is pulled over for ‘phone use’ (Liam, Twitter)

“Can’t the police use Google?” Cyclist mistakenly pulled over by police and threatened with ticket for “using phone” – and then gets lectured by officer for not wearing helmet or hi-vis

The cyclist, who was spotted by the officer saving footage of a lorry driver’s close pass on his bike camera, was told that not wearing a helmet or hi-vis could lead to him being “killed or smushed”

Thu, Nov 16, 2023 18:55

near miss of the day 749 screenshot – via Dr Hanne Bruhn

Near Miss of the Day 749: Close passing driver stops vehicle to tell cyclist she was “all over the bloody road”

Our regular series featuring close passes from around the country - today it's Aberdeenshire, where someone needs to brush up on their Highway Code

Sat, Apr 16, 2022 09:20

Deeside Way campaigners celebrate reinstatement of path (photo courtesy Carl Gerrard).JPG

Campaigners win fight to have gap in Deeside Way caused by Aberdeen’s £745m bypass plugged

New road layout meant cyclists on popular route had to ride for 30 metres into oncoming traffic

Sun, Mar 03, 2019 19:09

Video: Furious cyclist dresses down Aberdeen police officer who ran red light – but does he just have it in for the police?

Officer admits that he “accidentally went too far forward”

Sat, Feb 16, 2019 16:36

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxYUnVO2AyU

Video: Taxi driver admits delivering punishment pass to teach cyclist a lesson

Footage contains plenty of strong language

Sat, Sep 29, 2018 11:19