With little over a week before the clocks go back, it’s time to check your lights are up to the job ahead. The advent of LED technology has revolutionised cycle lighting. Cheap, robust and bright, the lights are being used in ever-more creative ways. LEDs can now be found incorporated into gloves, jackets and now embedded into bicycle wheel rims.…
Parking charges and residents’ permits rarely, if ever, reflect the real estate value of the land or road space occupied by the car. And yet, it’s an issue that drivers feel extremely strongly about. Earlier this year we built a fake skip in which to store bicycles, but so angry were some drivers that we were temporarily replacing a single…
The Bookman bicycle whistle might be based on nineteenth century technology, but its benefits for urban cyclists are current. Established in Birmingham in 1870, Acme Whistles has teamed up with Swedish bicycle accessory supremo, Bookman, to create a new design of whistle for today’s rider. According to Bookman’s Johan Lidehall: “Most of our customers probably wouldn’t like the look of a big…
Once you have a basic set of tools, a work stand is the next step towards cycle maintenance nirvana. The X-Tools Workshop Prep Stand is adjustable in all directions to allow easy access to every part of your bike and a cam locking lever to ensure you don’t exert too much pressure on your bike’s frame. Best of all for…
An electric bus has covered over 1,000 miles on a single charge to claim a world record for driving the longest distance by an electric vehicle on a single charge. Proterra’s 40-foot bus squeezed 1,101.2 miles from 660 kWh of energy storage capacity. The creators of the bus hope their technology will have a disruptive impact on the transit market because of its…
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