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The idea of a cycling date might not be everyone’s cup of tea. Hours bent over the handlebars, trying your best to look elegant or dapper (not always easy on a bike), whilst attempting to make small talk, could actually be some peoples worst nightmare. So to overcome all of the above and make the notion of a cycling date attractive to the...

The days of waiting eight hours for an electric car to recharge could soon be a thing of the past. A team of researchers from MIT in America that set out to “reinvent the rechargeable battery” has developed a new approach to energy storage that could revolutionize the cars we drive. Electric cars take up to eight hours to recharge, but the...

The Martin Jetpack is the world’s first commercially available vertical take-off and landing personal flying machine, and while it may have a retail price and fuel economy comparable with a second-hand Lamborghini, if its combustion engine is powered by ethanol produced in an environmentally-friendly way it is likely to be touted as an...

An increasing number of people no longer prepared to wait for high-performance electric sports cars are taking matters into their own hands and building their own. Two brothers from Hungerford have spent the last eight years building an electric-powered dragster using a 1965 VW Beetle and parts from a milk float. Sam and Olly Young have now...

With hundreds of speed cameras withdrawn as a result of funding cuts and a new lottery draw or scratch card launched seemingly on a daily basis, perhaps the time is right to introduce an element of gambling to road safety. Such was the thinking behind Kevin Richardson’s idea for ‘speed camera gambling’ – a concept that last year won the Fun...

The distributors of electric bicycles are purposefully moving away from presenting their products as gadgets, according to Mark Loveridge at Ultra Motor. As e-bike distributors congregated at last month’s Tour de Presteigne festival in Wales, it was clear that as the industry moves towards the mainstream bicycle market a new approach to...

Hundreds of cyclists around the country are rallying behind a ten-year-old boy who has planned his own charity ride in honour of his baby brother. Felix Mallinder from Dundee has been so impressed by his younger brother’s fortitude and good cheer during his continuing treatment for leukaemia that he plans to cycle 12 miles in honour of the...

Cycle to Work has survived the taxman’s decision last year that the scheme allowing employees to buy cheap bikes for commuting was too generous. Cycle to Work is a salary sacrifice scheme that was originally launched to allow tax payers a discount of up to 50% on a bike’s retail price. In everything but name the scheme is a generous hire...

Twitter users are on a global quest to fight injustice; when they are not busy challenging questionable legal injunctions, an increasing number of media-savvy cyclists and police forces around the world are using social media to track down thieves. A cyclist in Boulder City, Nevada, this week used Twitter to track down her stolen bicycle...

A group of walkers has developed a new type of organic bicycle that effectively side-steps all local regulations outlawing the use of bikes on pavements. The group behind the idea developed the so-called Human Bicycle as a way of bypassing regulations that forbid cycling within airports, but there is little reason why the concept cannot be...