News Archives - October 2015

BikeVault: 21st century bicycle security

BikeVault is 21st century bicycle security; an app-enabled Boris Bike-style docking system that allows you to set off for the shops without a heavy lock. BikeVault offers vastly superior security to portable locks. Once you’ve downloaded the free app to locate your nearest space, you nsert your bicycle between two towers and scan your free BikeVault membership card, which identifies…

Halloween bicycle – walking dead, cycling survivors

Should the zombie apocalypse occur this Halloween, the only way to travel will be by bicycle. The qualities that make bicycles such a civilized way of commuting to work or popping to the shops, also happen to make them perfectly suited to avoiding zombies; bikes do not rely on oil or roads, carry a good payload and are so quiet they do not attract attention (it’s a well-known fact that zombies are attracted by noise).

Aura Belt: Flashing clothing for cyclists

The Aura Belt is the perfect way to mark the end of British Summer Time this weekend (25 October). The Aura is a nylon webbing belt with a flexible LED and fibre optic lighting system embedded within. It can be set to emit a constant glow, slow pulse or a strobing flash. ETA customers enjoy a 35% discount on Aura Belts. Enter…

Bicycle trailers: Tow. Float. Sleep.

Bicycle trailers might be few and far between on British roads, but designer Daniel Durnin plans to put them on our waterways. The Water Bed is a tiny wooden canal boat designed to be towed behind a bicycle.