Does anyone have a solution to the close pass? In the absence of segregated infrastructure, you can buy all manner of high-vis tops, flags, stickers and lights designed to remind inattentive drivers about their legal (not to mention moral) responsibility to leave a gap of 1.5m when overtaking people on bikes, but scientific research reveals most make no difference at…
How organised a cyclist are you? If your rides home from work next week will be in the dark, have you checked your bike lights are in good working order? To mark this weekend’s clock change, we have a USB-rechargeable Cateye Volt 200XC and Rapid Mini light set worth £50 to give away. The compact USB-rechargeable, 200-lumen light has a…
Everyone wants to stay safe on the roads. Unfortunately, there are wildly different ideas about how that’s best achieved. Beaonisation is a digital version of the red flag they waved ahead of early cars* – except this time it’s for cyclists. If you think fitting pedestrians and cyclists with transponders to prevent them being run over in the brave new…
We know it’s counter-intuitive to make a case against day-glow tops for cyclists, but there’s a reason criminals sometimes wear high vis to rob banks; fluorescent clothing’s a perfect way to disappear. Countries committed to Vision Zero design safe systems rather than teach road safety for a reason. Things might be different if high-vis clothing could be proved to work.…
With the exception of child seats, few of us here in Britain use bicycles as a way of carrying stuff of any size. By contrast, cyclists elsewhere in the world are dab hands at lashing all manner of cargo to bog-standard bikes. Adding luggage racks makes things a whole lot easier – elevating the humble bicycle into a veritable workhorse.…
