News Archives - January 2010

An eight-mile bicycle wheelie completed this week by Aaron Stannage, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire is likely to earn the 14-year-old a place in the record books.

A 7.5-mile section of road in east London, which is to be permanently monitored by average-speed cameras, is likely to earn the enviable reputation of being the only road in Britain on which speeding is not endemic.

With much of the talk at this week’s Detroit Motor Show focused on electric-only vehicles, the new Volkswagen Compact Coupe Concept gave a tantalising glimpse of the performance and fuel efficiency possible from a hybrid car driven by a petrol engine working in tandem with a battery-powered electric motor.

If you can overlook its three-wheel configuration, its lack of a conventional steering wheel and the absence of any doors then the £4,000 BugE on display this week at the Detroit Motor Show is a good candidate for the title of cheapest electric car in the world.

A kit that transforms any bicycle into a caterpillar track-driven snow bike may become a useful piece of kit for British cyclists if the weather we have experienced this month becomes an annual event.