An amateur cycling club with an ethos based as much on encouraging participation by women as performing well in races reports a huge increase in the sport driven by the success of Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton.
Mayor Boris Johnson has often referred to his hopes of London becoming the ‘electric car capital of Europe’ and now plans are underway for a network of wireless charging points for electric cars and bicycles in London.
Traffic police in Thanh Hoa city, Vietnam, have resorted to a novel, if extreme, way of tackling speeding motorcyclists, according to “reports”:http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-bizarre/and-you-thought-speed-cameras-were-bad/19570.html
People may have been building simple devices to create the image of a moving picture for over 2,000 years, but even today the effect of placing simple paper shapes on a moving wheel is no less magical.
Most people know that cars and lorries are responsible for exhaust gases, particulates, noise pollution and road danger, but how many of us consider the damage to the visual environment caused by the endless rows of parked vehicles that line our streets? The latest concept design from Toyota is the car giant’s own take on the problem.