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Part of the festivities surrounding the Tour de France each year involves spectators daubing the roads with painted slogans. It’s likely that British authorities would take a dim view of such high jinks in the salubrious areas of London and Surrey through which the 2012 Olympic Games cycle road race will pass, but how about decorating the...

As part of an inquiry examining road safety in Britain, a cross-party committee will next week take oral evidence about the issues facing the cyclists on roads in town and country. High-profile cyclists giving evidence to the committee include newscaster Jon Snow, and Times newspaper editor James Harding, but if you have something to say on...

The day-to-day challenges facing the camping cyclist include carrying lightest possible equipment and finding level ground on which to pitch the tent, but a new design of pop-up tent designed to be towed behind a bicycle doubles up as a capacious trailer and incorporates levelling jacks that compensate for uneven ground. By using two wheels...

A micro car that makes a Smart car look big and a Fiat 500 seem positively portly is once again available to buy, 48 years after production stopped in 1964. The single seat Peel P50 has held the title of World’s Smallest Production Car for over 50 years – at a little over 1m in length and weighing in at 59kg, the runabout is so diminutive...

A new type of flying car promises motorists the chance to avoid traffic jams and cross lakes, rivers or mountain ranges like an eagle at speeds over 100mph. It was with unfortunate timing that footage of the PAL-V ONE’s maiden flight was released on 1st April, because this remarkable vehicle is no joke. In road going mode, the PAL-V ONE is...

The country that convinced the world that the humble pen knife should be a multifunctional tool boasting over thirty features has crammed a kitchen, dining table and double bed into the back of a small family car. The swissRoomBox modular system transforms almost any size of car into a motorhome of sorts. Prices start at around £2,700. Most...

It will come as little surprise to London motorists that the city has once again topped a league table of the world’s most expensive places to park. Monthly parking rates in the city of London now exceed £700 according to research firm Colliers Motorists outside the capital pay less eye-watering rates; parking costs less than 20p per hour...

Many of the millions of bicycles that lie languishing unused in garden sheds, cast aside in roadside verges or abandoned at bike racks around the country are to be offered a new lease of life by a new bicycle-rehoming organisation called Battersea Cogs Home. Battersea Cogs Home has been rescuing, restoring and rehoming abandoned bicycles...

Most people want a strategic road network that is safe, reliable, high quality and with traffic that flows freely – and the ETA believes the best way of achieving it is to directly charge the driver for each mile used. Road user charging would gather the funds to provide well-engineered highways to access every town in Britain. Such...

Motorcyclists have long enjoyed a choice of helmet-mounted radios that allow them to stay in touch with each other, but now cyclists can buy the world’s first Bluetooth Communication and Entertainment System for bicycle helmets. The cardo BK-1 allows simultaneous intercom communication between up to 3 cyclists at distances of up to 500 m....