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After what feels like an exceptionally long and wet winter, one would be forgiven for assuming Britain must have more water than it knows what to do with, but we have less available water per person than most other European countries. In fact, South East England has less water available per person than the Sudan or Syria. Reducing the...

Battery powered angle grinders have been a game changer for cycle thieves. Small, powerful and quieter than their mains-powered cousins, the cordless tools make short work of every design of cycle lock. It's a problem that prompted us to ask 'what would Q dream up to protect James Bond's bike?' - a question that led to an anti-theft ejector...

The family of a man who was killed by a hit-and-run driver are calling on the government to broaden the definition in law of 'death by dangerous driving' to include a failure to stop, call 999 and render aid on scene until further help arrives. At time of writing, their petition has almost 6,000 signatures. The driver who killed Ryan...

Lockdown has put the brakes on all but essential travel and there's no doubt the environment has benefitted. As the streets emptied of traffic in London almost a year ago, levels of nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and particulates fell to their lowest since records began in 2000, according to the London Air Quality Network. However, as...

The Brainy Bike Light claims to play on the way our brains react to instantly recognisable symbols - the design uses an illuminated bike symbol to stand out from urban light clutter. The light was developed with the help of a specialist in behavioural economics, who found a bike symbol was more quickly recognised by other road users than...

If the Brompton is a Morris Minor, the RadMini is surely the Range Rover of folding bicycles. When fitted with 4”-wide, all-terrain tyres to soak up potholes, a folding frame makes multi-modal travel a breeze and heavy duty cargo racks put both Morrisons and Morocco within reach. With the bike fully laden with 50kg of cargo, powerful 180mm...

The explosive rise in online shopping over lockdown has flooded our streets with delivery vans. Nothing wrong with that you might think. After all, home deliveries are convenient for many and replace a large number of car shopping trips with a smaller number undertaken by professional drivers. However, many aren't entirely professional. In...

Keeping a bicycle under cover protects it from the weather and prying eyes, but with urban areas short on space, for many that's easier said than done. When a manufacturer of tents was challenged to address the problem, the result was BikeParka – a high-quality, fitted water-proof cover for bicycles. In the same that way that today’s...

If there's to be a silver lining to Coronavirus, it’ll be a renewed sense of community spirit. A small step towards collectivism that might endure beyond the epidemic. We could certainly learn a thing or two about cycling collectivism from our Scandinavian cousins. Like so many of the best cycling ideas, Cycling Without Age started in...

The natural gas we use to cook and heat our homes is responsible for over 30 per cent of the UK's carbon emissions so in an attempt to reduce that impact on the environment, two show homes where all the appliances are powered entirely by hydrogen are being built in Gateshead. As part of the government's drive to phase out the use of fossil...