If you cycle on the road, it’s easy to bemoan the conditions for bicycles. However, next time your teeth rattle as your wheels sink into a pothole, your heart jumps as car overtakes with inches to spare or you return to your bike only to find its seat has been pinched, consider perhaps the plight of women in North Korea,…
Three-dimensional printers allow you to manufacture almost anything you want at home, including a host of cycling-related accessories. The bicycle lamp attachment pictured right deflects some of the light so that it is visible from the side – a useful boost to visibility on dark winter mornings and nights. It was created using a 3-D printed and the plans for…
If you can design a new, commercially-viable way of foiling bicycle thieves you could walk away with £50,000 in cash. Cyclists often ask when bike insurance can cost as much as car cover, but they are far more likely to be victims of theft than motorists. It’s estimated that over 500,000 bikes are stolen each year in Britain – that’s…
Kickstarter.com is an online, democratic version of dragon’s den that sees you, the website visitor, take on the role of the investor. But instead of equity, you get the chance to buy things before they hit the shops. The crowd funding website, which has only recently opened up to British designers, now includes a number of interesting cycling-related projects. Kickstarter…
It’s hard to ring a bicycle bell in anger in the way that drivers can use their car horns, so perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn of a raft of powerful bicycle accessories that help cyclists make themselves heard above the din of the urban jungle. Loud… The sound of a bicycle bell doesn’t carry particularly well…
20/12/12
