Successful single-handed sailing demands that a skipper be physically fit and highly resourceful, so perhaps it should come as little surprise that the record-breaking sailor and keen cyclist, Frank Cammas, has fitted a bicycle to the deck of a 100ft trimaran, so that he can trim the sails using pedal power.
Formula One will try to attract manufacturers to the sport by radically changing the specification of its racing cars. Engines are likely to be further reduced in size and the amount of fuel the cars are permitted to use in testing and racing will be capped.
Mountain bikes are the default choice for most cyclists, but a promotional film for the forthcoming Bike Radar Live event shows a Raleigh road bike taking on the most extreme of off-road conditions.
Large mirrors are to be fitted to traffic lights in London in a bid to reduce the number of cyclists killed and seriously injured by left-turning lorries.
With a little over a month to go before its launch, London’s mass bicycle hire scheme has been christened Barclays Cycle Hire and given its first docking stations in Southwark Street.