Tern has stolen a march on Brompton by launching the Elektron – a bicycle described as the smallest, most powerful folding e-bike ever. The long-awaited electric Brompton has been in development for over five years and remains months away from launch. According to Cycling Industry News, the electric Brompton advanced prototype tips the scales at 16.5 kg and retains the company’s…
I spent 10 days in 2012 guiding a group of 80 women for 450 km across three countries in South America. After a long plane journey, we arrived in the incredible Panama City. It’s hard to arrive in a new country without preconceptions, so while the immaculate high-rise skyline was a surprise, with it came a modern and comfortable hotel surrounded…
Over 800 bicycles have been stolen today across Britain according to the world’s first road statistic counter. How many bicycles stolen today? The British crime survey, which examines people’s experience of crime rather than recorded offences, estimates that 533,000 are stolen bikes each year in Britain – over 1,000 every day. The astonishing figure is one of a number of eye-opening facts revealed by Road…
The family bicycle is widely regarded, in this country at least, as a runabout to potter around the local park with the kids; driven largely by fashion, we overlook practical options in favour of those built for outright speed or off-road ability. It is surprising then, that an appetite for a new breed of family bicycle is emerging not from…
In the days before the mass production of cars, self-defence for cyclists centred around the threat from dogs and brigands – or at least it did if you believed the advertising of the time. In the late nineteenth century, the manufacture of arms and bicycles shared similar metalworking techniques; both trades benefitted from improvements in engineering that allowed tube gauges to…
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