Not every cyclist has the benefit of a ‘Q’ figure behind the scenes to build them a flamethrower like the one above we developed, so how can you avoid the danger of the close pass? Faced with the daily danger of close passes, Grahame Cooper has developed a novel – and by all accounts extremely effective – way of protecting…
The Highway Code will later this month for the first time introduce a hierarchy of responsibility to British roads. The change requires those who could cause the greatest harm to bear the greatest responsibility of reducing danger on the road. This long-overdue does of commonsense means there will exist a legal hierarchy of road users. The concept places vulnerable road…
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan this week warned that over-reliance on cars for short journeys ‘will replace one public health crisis with another – caused by filthy air and gridlocked roads’. His prediction followed news that over one third of car journeys in London could be walked in 25 minutes and that congestion associated with those trips costs the city…
It might look like something from the set of Breaking Bad, but you’re looking at the Bripe; if not the best portable coffee maker in the world, definitely the most hipster-friendly. The Bripe is a small, lightweight copper and silver pipe that makes coffee in the great outdoors. You don’t need electricity, a gas stove, kettle or pot. The handmade…
If large shopping malls are today’s medieval cathedrals then other aspects of contemporary urban architecture also appear to draw from the dark ages. We might not yet have trebuchets defending the local shopping centre, but the failings of town planning that make streets so hostile for cyclists now extend to the pedestrian realm. So-called defensive or ‘hostile’ architecture deliberately makes…
