At higher speeds, a skin-suit can add 1 mph to your average speed over the course of a time trial, but get the design right and the all-in-one can make you look fast, even when you’re at a standstill. Inspired by the sci-fi film Tron, the latest cycling skin-suit from Podium costs $150 and claims to offer a better speed advantage than a £1,000…
No word on how much protection it offers, but a new design of low-cost, recyclable, bicycle helmet manufactured from waste paper pulp is an imaginative use for the discarded newspapers that litter the London transport network. Under the proposal, the many tons of newspapers, in particular the freebies such as the Standard and Metro, would be collected and blended with…
A British inventor has built the world’s fastest and loudest shopping bicycle. Shopper bikes are the ideal vehicle for short-distance errands; robust little work vehicles long loved by those for whom the bicycle is about function rather than form.They are bikes that cannot be described as fast, until now. V1 doodlebug-powered bicycle Colin Furze is self-confessed ‘garage inventor’ who salvaged…
No one can be certain whether or not it’s dangerous to cycle while listening to music on headphones, but an alternative approach to traditional ear buds or headphones that does not drown out ambient sound is possible by using bone conduction. Cynaps is the world’s first Bluetooth, bone conduction headset incorporated into a hat. Sewn into an ordinary-looking baseball cap,…
Trust the Dutch to know what makes a good bicycle bell. Apparently it’s all in the choice of metal. While the alloy used in the most basic models (the type that’s fitted by law to all cycles sold new) might be cheap to produce, it’s sound is tinny and inferior. By comparison, traditional bell metal comprises mainly copper and has…
