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A handlebar-mounted laser that projects an image onto the road ahead to increase a cyclist’s visibility is now available to buy. Designer Emily Brooke has placed her Blaze light project on crowd-funding website Kickstarter.com, where it has attracted over £30,000 of investment from members of the public. The idea of using a powerful...

It’s not just people who can feel flat following Christmas and New Year festivities; the sub-zero temperatures predicted for early next year mean a higher-than-average number of car batteries will fail on Wednesday 2nd January - the first day back to work. If a car has been standing idle in the cold while its owners have been partying over...

It’s traditional for motorists who drive on their holidays to buy breakdown cover in the Summer months, but they are far more likely to call on the service in winter. The run-up to Christmas isn't the idea time to be making unexpected outlays, but if you are without breakdown cover for your car, now is a wise time to invest. Car batteries...

We tend to live our lives by default. And for most of us, our choice of bicycle is no different. It matters not whether we undertake a daily city commute, a weekly shopping trip or the occasional amble through the local park, most of us plump for a mountain bike. The majority of cyclists in this country forgo mudguards, a kickstand and...

These wooden mudguards made of recycled material and designed to fit the Brompton folding bicycle caught our eye this week. The graphics are custom etched and their message will resonate with all converts to 16 or 20-inch wheels… Cycle insurance: 40% discount for folding bicycles Cycle insurance from the ETA includes a 40% discount for...

It’s the cycling accessory that no one needs, but every cyclist will want; Trotify is a wooden device that sits on your front wheel and makes your bike clop like a horse. Trotify fits to the front brake mount, just like a reflector, and uses the movement of the wheel to clack together two halves of a coconut. The average recreational...

Using a handheld phone behind the wheel does not yet carry the social stigma associated with drink driving, which perhaps explains why one million British motorists have been booked by police over the last nine years for illegally using a mobile while driving. The problem appears to have worsened as mobile phones have gained internet access...

It’s a product worthy of the Innovations Catalogue, the glossy brochure of gadgets that used to fall from the pages of the Sunday newspapers; WALK-A-BIKE is a strap designed to makes it easy to walk or jog long distances with a bicycle at your side. It’s not altogether clear why one would want to walk a bike for exercise when it’s so...

What do you do when a much-loved bicycle finally gives up the ghost? Regan Appleton first practiced bicycle taxidermy on his father’s once-prized, but long-discarded mountain and road bikes and now offers a commercial service to cyclists facing mechanical bereavement mounting the prize steed’s handlebars on a plaque in the style of a...

Renault is selling four times as many examples of its two-seater, battery-powered two-seater, the Twizy, as it is its Fluence electric saloon. Only the Kangoo ZE commercial van, which appeals to urban courier companies who like its low-running costs and exemption from congestion charges, has sold more. Renault has sold 252 examples of the...