A child trailer with a built-in electric motor capable of pushing a bicycle at up to 19mph has gone on sale for less than £500. The design is an evolution of the original RideKick powered bike trailer – a clever alternative to a conventional e-bike that gives any bicycle a boost of battery power without the need for modification. A…
If you cycle on the road, it’s easy to bemoan the conditions for bicycles. However, next time your teeth rattle as your wheels sink into a pothole, your heart jumps as car overtakes with inches to spare or you return to your bike only to find its seat has been pinched, consider perhaps the plight of women in North Korea,…
With sub-zero temperatures predicted for much of the country this weekend, drivers are being urged to ensure they have adequate car breakdown cover in place. Freezing temperatures place an additional strain on cars and result in flat batteries being the number one cause of breakdowns at this time of year. If you do not have car breakdown cover recovery policy,…
Hummer 4x4s have always looked incongruous on British roads; their sizeable chrome grilles that do such a good job reflecting the California sun and sky look garish on a drab winter’s day over here and the obesity of their bodywork is ill-suited to narrower streets. You don’t need to be a dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist to recognise 15mpg as profligacy, so it is timely…
Three-dimensional printers allow you to manufacture almost anything you want at home, including a host of cycling-related accessories. The bicycle lamp attachment pictured right deflects some of the light so that it is visible from the side – a useful boost to visibility on dark winter mornings and nights. It was created using a 3-D printed and the plans for…
