News Archives - 2012

The loudest bicycles: Horns that blast, beep and shout

It’s hard to ring a bicycle bell in anger in the way that drivers can use their car horns, so perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn of a raft of powerful bicycle accessories that help cyclists make themselves heard above the din of the urban jungle. Loud… The sound of a bicycle bell doesn’t carry particularly well…

Bike roof rack reminder app

Carrying a bicycle on a roof rack is a perilous activity when your journey involves entering a garage or a public car park with a height restriction. Cycle insurance policies that include accidental damage cover this sort of incident, but the risk of it happening in the first place can be dramatically reduced by using the Bikesavr app.   The…

A cycle helmet that gives you eyes in the back of your head

If busy traffic leaves you wishing you had eyes in the back of your head, you might be in the market for the FlyVIZ – a helmet-mounted camera that projects a 360 degree panorama before your eyes. 15 minutes of nausea A camera mounted on a short mast delivers a feed to LCD screens. According to the designers of the…

Car fog lamp menace

The merest hint of mist at this time of year is enough for motorists to switch on that most irritating of Christmastime lights – the rear fog lamp. In theory fog lamps make perfect sense. In practice they appear flawed for the following reasons: There are no regulations to stipulate that a fog lamp must be a single light positioned…

More ‘hate’ for tractor drivers than caravanners, Sunday drivers and cyclists

Owners of caravans have cause to celebrate after a recent poll by an insurance company showed they are no longer the most hated road users. After holding on to the dubious title for several years, they have been dislodged by tractor drivers. Cyclists were disliked less than caravanners, Sunday drivers and learners. A spokesperson for the ETA, said: “These polls…