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It’s hard to think of the bus as anything more than the work horse of public transport, but Simon Rowe has re-imagined it as mobile shelter for the homeless. After finding himself homeless for a brief period, Rowe found it impossible to turn a blind eye to those sleeping rough. With first-hand experience of how a good night’s sleep can...

By this time next week, spring will have sprung, so what better time to plan the fifty places to bike before you die? In his beautiful guide, author Chris Santella and other biking experts reveal their picks for the world’s greatest biking destinations. From the Severn Lakes District in Argentina to a route between Hanoi and Angkor Wat the...

A marriage of technologies old and new has given birth to the ultimate bicycle for the British wilderness. The steel frame might be based on a classic 1930s butcher’s delivery bike, but the built-in USB charger and carbon Loop front wheel is very much twenty-first century. Commissioned by TV chef and food campaigner Hugh...

Electric cars like the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S do all they can to look and feel like conventional cars, but breaking free of this homogeneity is the Morgan EV3. The ash-framed three-wheeler might look like an automotive anachronism, but beneath composite carbon panels lurks a tubular space frame chassis and a liquid cooled 46kW motor...

The fact that as few as one in four cyclists are women has an added poignancy in the week we celebrated International Women’s Day. The bicycle has a strong association with women’s freedom and the suffragette movement. When Annie Londonderry embarked on a circumnavigation of the globe in 1896 (to settle a bet that a woman could not cycle...

As disposable plastic carrier bags edge towards extinction, their place is being taken by a new generation of lightweight reusable bag. The Reflective Bag and Backpack is ideal for cyclists because it packs to a tiny size and leaves both hands free for riding. Inside the simple bag is a pocket for your wallet you keys. When not in use, the...

The VeloMetro Veemo is a new take on the velocars of old; pedal-powered vehicles that proved a popular way of getting about towns and cities in France during the 1930s and 40s. So efficient were these lightweight machines, that they broke cycling speed records before being promptly declared ineligible to race by cycling's governing body....

Research reveals that 45 per cent of the adult population never cycle, despite knowing how to ride. The YouGov poll, commissioned by the ETA, shows that although the vast majority of Brits have learned to cycle (93%), more than half have not cycled in more than a year. Almost one in three has not ridden a bike in a decade or more. The...

Milan aims to boost sustainable transport on its crowded streets by paying people cash to cycle to work. In common with many of the world’s cities, the Italian industrial centre is blighted by dangerous levels of pollution. An app will monitor a person’s travelling speed, to check whether they are really cycling to work – although the...

The Oi bicycle bell reimagines a much-underrated accessory that has remained largely unchanged since it was invented in 1877. Unlike the traditional bicycle bell, the Oi is not a dome. The design wraps discreetly around the handlebar is a way that looks as good on a vintage ride as it does on a road bike. There are five styles. The standard...