A pedal-powered helicopter’s maiden flight of 50 seconds this week may not herald a new mode of transport for the envorinmentally-aware super rich, but it did take its creators one step nearer winning the Sikorsky Prize – $250,000 that will go to the first human-powered helicopter capable of flying at a height of 3m for more than one minute. The…
Cycle Show 2012 – book tickets in advance & save 28th-30th September 2012. NEC, Birmingham The Cycle Show will return to the NEC, Birmingham on 28th – 30th September 2012 with a number of heavy-weight bike brands, such as Specialized, Trek and Madison, joining the line up from last year. This year the show will host an array of new interactive features.…
Top Gear is known the world over for its inimitable style of high-octane car worship, so it is heartening to read in its printed namesake, a magazine with over 1.7m readers in this country alone, a glowing review of the latest bicycles. Of even greater surprise was the special billing received by the Hornster – a bicycle customized to an outrageous extent by us…
A cycle lane that is never blocked by parked cars may be no more than a dream for many British cyclists, but such infrastructure may be rendered obsolete if a radical new design for a flying bicycle ever gets off the ground. The FBike design does not appear entirely well-suited to manoeuvring on city streets; at two-and-a-half metres wide the bike would…
It looks like an ice yacht without its sail or a microlight aircraft that’s lost its wing, but the Ice Bat is a new type of human-powered sport; a propeller-driven trike that powers across ice at speeds of 20mph.