Bookman is celebrating summer with a limited-edition of its lightweight USB-rechargeable bike lights. We have two sets in sea green and acid yellow to give away. The USB Light is compact and lightweight, but surprisingly bright. It fits all bicycle handlebars and seat posts and is quick and easy to attach with its rubber band. Its large button on the…
Looking like a cross between a recumbent bicycle and a small articulated lorry, the Quicab has the potential to revolutionise inner city taxis services and help tackle London’s poisoned air. The Quicab can chauffeur four passengers at speeds of up to 15 mph thanks to the Velove Armadillo cargo bike ‘tractor unit’. Crucially, it produces no tailpipe emissions. Should the…
Almost a quarter of the Dutch population cycles every day – making the most of the country’s 35,000 km of dedicated cycle infrastructure or the 70 per cent of urban streets traffic calmed and limited to 20mph. However, a growing population and an associated increase in car use has prompted the Dutch Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Stientje Van Veldhoven,…
Electric bicycles make perfect sense in the urban environment. Towns and cities in Britain regularly exceed legal limits on air pollution and yet the government does its level best to put people off electric bicycles – not least by barring them from any of the grants that subsidise electric cars. Just as well that electric bike manufacturers continue to work creatively…
Close passes by motorists are as much a part of cycling on British roads as potholes, but there can be only two possible explanations for why a motorist overtakes dangerously close to a cyclist – incompetence or malice. In the absence of widespread and good quality infrastructure to protect cyclists from motorised traffic, The Safer Roads Partnership and operational policing…
14/06/18
