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We love cargo bikes, but they can be expensive to buy and tricky to store if you’re short on space so we set about creating a high-capacity bike trailer that would be easy to store in urban areas. With a budget of £50 we bought a new 240-litre wheelie bin for £37, a length of 22 mm copper pipe for £11, a pipe fitting and a handful of nuts...

There's a whiff of desperation surrounding Rishi Sunak's recent pro-driver posturing. After all, measures like 20mph limits, LTNs and low-emission zones stand to benefit us all - however we travel. Unfortunately, there's nothing new about the weaponising of motoring issues. During a decade of New Labour at the turn of the century, a pledge...

Why is it you wait ages for the green man at a pedestrian crossing only to be given hardly any time to cross before the light change? Things could be about to improve, but before you get too hopeful, crossing times look set to increase by one second on the typical road. Guidance for traffic engineers used to assume an average walking speed...

Running late on your ride to the office but can't do without a quick caffeine fix? This porteur rack from Japan's Pep Cycles might be just the ticket. The aluminium rack fits over the front wheel to a 26"-700c fork with eyelets, and measures 30cm long by 21cm wide. It will bear a maximum load of 10kg, which is a lot of coffee.

Whether or not you know one end of a crank extractor from the other, this 37-piece bicycle toolkit from Lifeline will, at the very least, give the impression of expertise. We have one of these sets worth £70 to give away. To be in with a chance of winning, simply leave us a comment at the bottom of this page and we'll pick a winner next...

It's an exciting time for cargo e-bikes and trikes. As an increasing number of businesses recognise the benefits of making their local deliveries by cargo bike - not to mention families using them for the school run - manufacturers are responding with a range of innovative designs. The Komodo is a UK designed and built cargo e-trike...

Jeremy Vine has a made a name for himself on social media by filming examples of poor driving as he cycles to work through London. When he took an interest in our inflatable star backpack, we were more than happy for him to road test it. You can watch how he got on via Jeremy Vine's Twitter here Does anyone have a solution to the close...

Cycle camping is a pursuit as old as the bicycle itself. Now reinvented as ‘bikepacking’ the business of setting off to ride and camp, taking with you only as much as you can carry, is an adventure whether you travel near or far. To help get you started, we have a Quechua three-person tent to give away. Win a tent for summer cycle camping...

If you're one of the five million British motorists heading to France this year, the ETA Guide to Driving in France is a free e-book packed with useful information. However many times you've embarked on a Gallic driving holiday, recent changes to French law means it pays for even the most experienced driver to brush up on the rules. For...

We don't care that bicycle caravans will always be a heavier, more expensive and less practical alternative to carrying a tent. In fact, we love the idea so much we built the whimsical model pictured above - and we earned a Guinness World Record for our troubles. Given the Marmite relationship Brits have with both bicycles and caravans,...