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When people have to work in or around a road it's considered a serious healthy and safety issue involving risk assessments, special equipment and even closure of the carriageway. The rest of us who interact with busy roads have to make do with little more than good luck. With this inequality in mind, a new high-tech upgrade for the...

Talk about road fatalities centres almost exclusively about numbers killed. It's a narrative that masks not only the misery caused by each death, but details about who is doing the killing. 1,793 people were killed on Britain's roads in 2017. But what about if we put that statistic to one side and focussed on which vehicles are involved...

There's something of the Mad Max about today's cities: We wave a chequered flag to cars capable of over 200mph; we don't bat an eyelid to SUVs that boast 700hp and we turn a blind eye to fully laden 44-ton articulated lorries that squeeze six miles from every gallon of diesel as they rumble along our narrowest streets. We do, however, make...

Spring is in the air so in its honour we have this Faema Guerra retro cycling top in medium to give away. The top is worth £70 and boasts lightweight polyester for incredible comfort and breathability in warmer weather. To be in with a chance of winning the top, please leave a comment below. Ethical cycle insurance On the face of it,...

Our schoolchildren are under siege. Not only are more than 950 schools near roads with harmful levels of illegal pollution, but over 6,000 children were injured on British roads in 2016 - a threat that prompts some schools to resort to barricades against cars. However, a decade after child-shaped safety bollards first appeared outside a...

The belief that a cyclist should remain seated during a climb might be commonly held, but it's conventional wisdom that Rob Holden was unwilling to leave unchallenged. If his name rings a bell, you may be already familiar with his two-wheeled adventures - like the time he rented a Boris Bike, rode it up Mont Ventoux in France and returned...

When it feels this damp, time has come to swap your water bottle for a thermos. Whatever the weather, this small thermos from Stanley will help keep you warm however you travel. Win a thermos We have a 0.47 litre Stanley bicycle thermos worth £30 to give away. Simply leave a comment at the bottom of this page and let us know what you'd fill...

Like bicycles, filament bulbs are a design that has hardly changed over the last century. However, unlike a bicycle, which allows a person to travel at 10–15 mph, using no more power than they would require to walk, filament bulbs waste 95% of the electricity they use as heat. Indeed, in many homes the use of tungsten filament bulbs can...

If your New Year’s resolution is to cycle more, but the absence of a shower at work threatens to stop you commuting by bike, why not build your own workplace shower? Our own take on the idea transforms a standard loo into a fully-functioning hot water shower. The design combines an upcycled plasterer’s bucket, chair, chin-up bar and plastic...

With less than two months to go before Britain is due to leave the European Union - and nobody any clearer about what that might entail - motorists planning to drive to France would be wise to plan for the possibility of a no-deal. From 28 March 2019, and in the event of a no-deal, the government is warning that British drivers may need an...