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Professional thieves like to steal property that's difficult to trace and easy to dispose of - it's the reason that bicycle theft is rife in urban areas. Datatag makes a bicycle much easier to identify, thereby reducing its desirability to thieves. Crucially, the system also makes it easier for the police to secure a conviction - both at...

Stay warm Riding a motorbike in winter When you get cold, you lose focus, your reaction times slow and numb hands don’t work well. This is especially unfortunate when road conditions are slippery and you need your wits about you. Motorway speeds in the cold are a challenge in their own right, but urban commuting is all about layering. A...

Would you pass the driving theory test if you sat it today? Have a go at the following 12 sample multiple choice questions and find out. Try your hand at the driving theory test [playbuzz-item url="//www.playbuzz.com/hannahd22/would-you-pass-the-driving-theory-test-today"] Driving theory test If you wish to drive a car or ride a motorcycle...

Strict liability to protect cyclists Strict liability makes motorists financially liable for collisions with pedestrians or cyclists. Only when the pedestrian or cyclist is proved to be negligent does the driver avoid paying compensation through their insurance. The principle recognises that the drivers of faster, heavier vehicles have a...

Loopwheels for mountain bikes Loopwheel launched as a Kickstarter project supplying 20" wheels for folding bikes. The company is now working on a 26" MTB version. Replacing spoke wheels on a folder with Loopwheels has no detrimental impact on folding action and adds approximately 780 grams in weight. A spring...

Tesla boss Elon Musk is keen to demonstrate that any type of car not only can work with an electric power train. The Tesla Roadster sport car and Model S saloon car can match petrol-powered rivals and the company is about to do the same with a seven-seater luxury SUV. Occupant safety is vastly superior to any other SUV on the market. The...

Carless utopia for one day A cynic might argue that the car free day is little more than PR ahead of a United Nations climate change conference being hosted in Paris later this year, but rising pollution has forced the city to act. In March, air pollution briefly made Paris the most polluted city in the world. Smog became so bad that the...

Funded by the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership, the pioneering mobile phone detector equipment will be able to detect the use of hand-held devices within vehicles whenever they drive past the sign. Mobile phone detector technology The technology combines a mobile phone detector with a Vehicle Activated Sign (VAS) so that pedestrians using a...

The news this week that VW has designed its diesel cars to cheat emissions testing prompted us to test the BMW i3 - the latest in electric car technology. 'exotic runabouts for the wealthy' Much is written about electric cars and they are often dismissed as little...

A new design of bus stop bypass is receiving a mixed reception. Whitechapel High Street is the first busy street in London on which bicycles are diverted around the back of newly installed bus stops. Cyclists pass between the pavement and those getting on and off the bus. According to Labour councillor and blogger, Vincent Stops, 'these...