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Tens of thousands of bicycles around the country currently lie hidden - wrapped and ready to take a star turn on Christmas morning, but after the initial squeals of delight, how many are destined to languish unused in garden sheds or end their days cast aside in roadside verges? It is estimated that up to 100,000 bicycles in Britain each...

Sales of Brompton, the definitive folding bicycle, have soared by 28 per cent. Over 44,000 of the folders were sold last year, three quarters of which were exported. Brompton is not only a success in British manufacturing, but has revolutionised the way bicycles can be used in this country; its clever folding mechanism allows thousands of...

Mountain sport fanatics can now beat the queues, save money on a lift pass and reduce their environmental impact by using a parachute to tow them to the top of slopes - a pursuit known as 'UpSkiing'. Carving down a mountainside, it's hard not to feel at one with nature, but the ski industry has a significant impact on the environment - not...

BMW has always represented the more salubrious end of the car market, and now it wants all its drivers to enjoy the benefits of valet parking – even when popping to the local shopping centre. BMW’s Remote Valet Parking Assistant allows you to leave your car at the entrance to a multi-storey car park and allow it to find its own space and...

Peterborough has been named Britain’s most car dependent city in a report by The Campaign for Better Transport. The Car Dependent Scorecard 2014 revealed a lack of use of public transport and heavy reliance on cars to get around when compared to 28 other cities in England. ...

If you're one of the hardy souls cycling undaunted by the current cold snap, doff your cap to the pioneer adventure cyclists of the 1890s who took to the snowy wilds of northern Canada without the benefit of modern clothing and 80 years before the advent of mountain bikes. The Great Gold Rush in the late 1890s drew 100,000 prospectors to...

Mazda has developed a new plant-derived plastic that will help curb its use of oil resources and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The ‘biotechmaterial’ can be dyed to give a higher-quality finish than traditional painted plastic. To be suitable for exterior parts, plastics also require weather, scratch and impact resistance. The new process...

The average person in Britain already travels 10,400 km each year, a figure that does not include flights abroad, so how can you get away on a break while remaining environmentally conscious? Where the journey is an adventure Mile-for-mile, air travel is the most environmentally damaging form of transport there is - so the simplest way to...

The advent of autonomous cars has the potential to reduce congestion, emissions, fuel costs and, most importantly, road deaths – the World Health Organisation estimates that over one million people are killed each year on the roads. The idea of using driverless ‘crash-proof’ cars to address these problems might seem fanciful, but the most...

A ludicrously expensive gold-plated bicycle has gone on sale for £250,000; enough to buy the average house in Britain or more than 1,000 bikes. [quote type="cycle_insurance"] The gaudy creation, from plating specialists Goldgenie, boasts a “meticulously applied a lustrous layer of 24k gold to the entire structure, from the tip of the drop...