After more than a century, Sainsbury’s is to resume a customer delivery service using cargo bikes. Sainsbury’s first delivered groceries using cargo bikes and tricycles in 1900, but the revived service has been updated and digitized for today’s time-pressed shopper. Using the Chop Chop app, customers in London can request, pay for and track an order for up to 20 items, and have…
Are bicycle mudguards a relic of bygone days? They might add a little weight, and spoil the lines of a sleek road bike, but given how often it rains here, the reason why so few bikes sold in Britain come without them fitted as standard is a mystery. The penalty for cycling without bicycle mudguards at this time of year is a damp and gritty streak…
The ETA is the world’s fastest bicycle; a bullet-shaped design that this month scooped first place in the World Human-Powered Speed Challenge when it clocked 89.59 mph. The world’s fastest bicycle is an embodiment of ingenuity, athleticism and determination. At 25 kg, the ETA is at least twice as heavy as the bicycles most of us ride, but unlike the average MTB, hybrid or road bike,…
In the battle against car parking in cycle lanes comes a new deterrent; the Barnacle works like a giant windscreen-mounted limpet that completely obscures a driver’s view to render the vehicle undriveable until a penalty is paid. The Barnacle has been designed to an improvement over ticketing and wheel clamps, which its designers consider cumbersome, archaic and inefficient. Effective parking enforcement…
If there’s a silver lining to Brexit, perhaps it’s the opportunity to revisit the law across Europe that governs, and restricts, the use of electric bicycles. According to current law (Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles – EAPC – (Amendment) Regulations 2015), electric bikes with powered assistance to a maximum of 25 km/h (15.5 mph) using a motor of no more than…
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