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The Orp is a small, but mighty bicycle light equipped with a strobe and a horn with two settings: The first is a polite 76 dB chirrup that’s for use on shared use paths or anywhere else you need to gently remind others of your approach - the second, a far louder 96 dB siren for when you really need to warn another road user of your...

If there’s a silver lining to Brexit, perhaps it’s the opportunity to revisit the law across Europe that governs, and restricts, the use of electric bicycles. According to current law (Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles – EAPC – (Amendment) Regulations 2015), electric bikes with powered assistance to a maximum of 25 km/h (15.5 mph) using a...

Battery-powered bicycles already outsell electric cars in Europe by seven times and a new generation of electric folding bikes promises to further boost that figure. Electric folding bikes are small enough to take on public transport and light enough to be carried into a house to be re-charged. Best of all, the latest technology allows them...

Most of us catch a motorist's eye before we cross the street, so what will we do when confronted with driverless cars? Until we pedestrians and cyclists learn from experience that autonomous vehicles pose less of a risk than their human-controlled predecessors, the answer could be the Smiling Car concept. The Smiling Car uses an illuminated...

Although the seasonal temperature cycle typically peaks in July, August 2016 tied with July 2016 as the warmest month ever recorded. August 2016's temperature was 0.16 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous warmest August (2014). Our world is heating up dramatically. The animated chart above has been released by NASA to illustrate how...

The Crua Hybrid combines a tent with a hammock, sleeping bag and air mattress. Journeys are most rewarding when you travel lightly. In every sense. Why drive on holiday when you can cycle? Why cycle when you can walk? The slower your pace, the more you see, the more folk you meet and the kinder you are to your environment. A need to save...

The greenest driving is that which is kept to a minimum; any trip replaced by walking or hopping on a bicycle will have a beneficial effect on your health, wallet and environment. Test your knowledge Green driving - keep your car or buy new? It would be greener and cheaper for many drivers to keep their car for as long as it is reliable...

When it comes to our perception of road danger, what a difference a century makes. Folk in 1916 were understandably horrified with any driver that ran over a child, whatever the circumstances. “If you look at newspapers from American cities in the 1910s and ’20s, you’ll find a lot of anger at cars and drivers, really an incredible amount,”...

The iPump Floor is a bicycle track pump that weighs 35 grams – about the same as a standard light bulb. The tiny pump features a lightweight carbon fibre body and polyurethane high pressure hose, which is only 4 mm in diameter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1112972433/ipump-floor-the-worlds-lightest-bicycle-floor-air/comments [quote...

The name Bill Nye might be unfamiliar, but in America he is well known as ‘The Science Guy’; a television presenter, writer and scientist with a reputation for taking a combative stance against those who doubt reasoned science. A fellow of the Committee for Sceptical Inquiry, an American organisation that aims to promote the use of reason...