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Thieves might be becoming evermore brazen, but the last thing they will ever expect to confront is this bicycle paint bomb. Secreted within the tubing of the bike rack is a compressed canister of brightly coloured criminal identifier - a spray gel that is sold legally in Britain. While the bicycle is in place, its weight prevents the marker...

While the evenings are still long, you can afford to be a bit more creative with your bike lights. And in any case, your bicycle does such a good job of keeping you fit, reducing congestion and safeguarding the environment that it deserves its very own halo. The VeloHalo uses loops of LED lights to transform your wheels into ethereal discs...

What will become of the world’s estimated 20 million shipping containers? Many spend their lives ferrying items from China to Europe and beyond to fuel our consumer lifestyles – their return journeys frequently carrying more than a third of the waste plastic and paper collected by British local authorities, supermarkets and businesses for...

We are proud to support the Stop Funding Hate campaign, which aims to mobilise consumer power to bring about a fairer and more inclusive media. Stop Funding Hate seeks to make media hate unprofitable by persuading companies to switch their advertising away from publications that demonise minority groups – and towards those which report...

Given outdoor air pollution in Britain contributes to around 40,000 deaths every year, it seems odd that so little is done to reduce pollution. The challenge of protecting our clean air can seem insurmountable, but only because there is so little joined-up thinking in government. Take as one tiny example, the removal of street trees, which...

The story of Jenni Morton-Humphreys and how she mounted her own sting operation to recover a stolen bike when police refused to help is a parable about cycling in Britain in 2017. With hundreds of thousands of bicycles pinched across Britain every year, the theft itself was unexceptional - as was the bike’s appearance a few days later on...

Cambridge looks set to become a test bed for driverless buses – otherwise known as autonomous mass-transit travel. The Affordable Very Rapid Transit (AVRT) would run overground on segregated routes and tunnelled sections . Headed up by Professor John Miles, an expert on transport systems at the University of Cambridge, a feasibility study...

We think the number of bicycle baskets per 100 riders is probably a good indicator of how far cycling has evolved in any given area. The fact they are used on town bikes by people running errands demonstrates cycling has become an unexceptional, inclusive and everyday activity – a world away from a sport. To promote this cycling utopia, we...

We love cargo bikes, but they are expensive and can be tricky to store if you’re short on space so we set ourselves a challenge to boost a conventional bicycle's carry capacity to 240 litres on a budget of £50 (and make sure it remained easy to store). For reference, the cheapest 20-litre pannier we could find online was £22.50. With our...

It's an inconvenient truth that most of us choose to forget; it is our own behaviour that is responsible for carbon emissions and the resulting change in our climate. After all, while we might be aware that driving a car and having children are both significant sources of pollution, we consider both to be a right. In the absence of a tax on...