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Efneo is a planetary gearbox that promises quicker and easier shifting than a conventional front derailleur. [quote type="cycle_insurance"] There is a slight weight penalty of 400g, but in its favour efneo does away with the need for tiresome, tricky adjustments. A conventional front derailleur has three chainrings of different sizes...

The abolition of the paper tax disc in favour of a digital system promises to save £7m in administration costs, but with over one million uninsured drivers already on British roads, the change threatens to increase the crime of car cloning. Car thieves and drivers without insurance routinely copy the number plate of a legally owned,...

An intrepid British cyclist who last year rode a Boris Bike to the top of Mont Ventoux in southern France has pedalled to further extremes in America by using a New York hire bike to conquer Mount Washington. Riding an 18 kg New York Citibike, Rob Holden took on arguably the toughest cycle hill climb in the world – 7.6 miles at inclines of...

The roll call of vehicles destroyed as part of the government's widely criticised car scrappage scheme, which has been published following a freedom of information request, makes grim reading for classic car enthusiasts. Almost 400,000 cars went to the breakers and they are itemised in a list produced by the Department for Business,...

[quote type="cycle_insurance"] Quick release bicycle wheel theft is an irritating peril of urban cycling. Quick release bicycle wheels stem from racing, but have become pretty much standard issue on bikes; great news if you routinely break your bicycle down for transportation - not so good if you are targetted by thieves. Unfortunately, as...

The Packtasche is a set of panniers made from cardboard designed to be offered by supermarkets to their cycling customers. [quote type="cycle_insurance"] German designers Philipp Moherndl and Matthias Lechner claim the panniers can safely carry 12 kg of shopping and can be used numerous times before they are recycled....

They have graced the windscreens of cars for almost 100 years, but with police now able to use number plate-reading cameras to access driver and vehicle details, the paper tax disc has, from today (1 October 2014) been consigned to history. Can I remove my tax disc even if it has yet to expire? Yes. Motorists still need to pay for vehicle...

Many a motorist spends an hour or more each Sunday morning in devotion to their car, cleaning it inside and out, but according to designer David Wilcox, the car of the near future may look quite literally like a place of worship. Wilcox was commissioned by Dezeen.com and an exhibition on the future of mobility to imagine a driverless car...

In 1887 Karl Kron published Thousand Miles on a Bicycle thanks to book pledges from cyclists as he pedalled his penny farthing around America. In 2013, Carlton Reid used crowdfunding website Kickstarter to do much the same thing. Roads Were Not Built For Cars is a fascinating account of how cyclists were the first to push for good roads and...

Bicycle locks can be cumbersome and thieves pinch saddles - two cycling gripes both addressed by the Seatylock. [quote type="cycle_insurance"] Seatylock is a bicycle saddle that transforms into a one metre solid lock to wrap around a fixed object in the usual way. Located at the bike's centre of gravity, the 1.3 kg lock should have minimal...