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Summertime cycling lights

Now that both ends of the daily commute are blessed with daylight, you can afford to be a little more flexible in your lighting requirements. 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 upper…

What official cars say about attitudes to air pollution

Two thirds of Scottish Government ministerial cars are diesel it emerged this week following an investigation by The Scotsman. Under plans to reduce the air pollution that is estimated to cost the lives of over 40,000 people around Britain every year, the dirtiest vehicles are to be banned from city centres in Scotland by 2020. It is disappointing that two…

Greening your home – Natural cleaning products

The chemicals you use to clean your home can have a detrimental effect on the environment – not least because they invariably end up in the water supply. It’s possible now to buy cleaning products marketed as environmentally benign, but invariably they come in plastic bottles – just one aspect of their production process and product life cycle that has…

ETA bike market

We don’t believe that a bicycle needs to be expensive or new. Many older bikes are well made, cheap to buy and have the added benefit of being less attractive to thieves. We’re great fans of town bikes – a style that’s popular in continental Europe, but largely overlooked here – but pretty much any bicycle, of any age, is…

Neatcleat: Spring clean your cycling gear

It’s the simple things that make life easier. If you regularly get yourself into trouble for leaving cycling gear lying around, salvation may be here in the form of Neatcleat – a small and stylish device to store your cycling shoes. A carabiner makes it easy to store your cycling shoes out of the way in a hall, cupboard or car. The…