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Halloween or no Halloween, British roads can feel like a horror show when you're on a bike. It got us thinking about how a trusty bicycle might fare should the worse happen. Bikes are already the quickest way to get around town, but the chronic shortage of petrol following a zombie apocalypse would render cars all but useless making pedal...

How do you create a bikeable town or city without the need for costly infrastructure or additional road space? The Belgian city of Bruges this week transformed 90 of its streets into a cycling zone - an area in which all motor vehicles must yield to bikes. In the zone, cyclists not only have the right to ride in the middle of the lane, but...

Staying puncture-free is the Holy Grail of cycling - and for good reason. You can try your best to remain free of flats, but whether or not you fit reinforced rubber, apply slime or run the correct pressure, the puncture fairy is always lurking. And infuriatingly, flats are like buses - you stay puncture-free for many hundreds of miles and...

The old trope that e-bikes are a cheat never rang true with anyone who'd actually taken the time to ride one. And now scientific research has stepped in to reaffirm the numerous benefits electric bicycles have to offer. Research published by sciencedirect.com has found that e-bikes are used for longer trips compared to conventional cycles....

As a cycle insurance provider that covers the theft of bike parts, we've noticed a steady increase in this type of crime. Perhaps it's to do with the increase in prices over recent years or it might be that we're all getting better at locking our bikes properly, but thieves seem content with pinching a saddle or shifters if they're unable...

Transport policy without road-user charging is doomed to fail. Essentially this is because roads are free – and when anything is free there's a tendency for it to be overused. In the case of roads, this leads to congestion. It's clear motoring taxation needs to change in a way that is fair and sustainable. Pay-as-you-go driving is simply a...

There's no alarm that'll stop a determined bike thief, but that doesn't stop folk from developing new takes on the idea. We even had a go ourselves with the Bike Mine. When tripped by a thief, the device detonates a 150 dB blast of sound; more than enough to startle a thief and raise the alarm. It's not intended to replace the need for a...

Why is it that electric bicycles here in the UK are limited to 15mph while no restriction at all is imposed on cars? It's possible to buy an e-bike with a motor powerful enough for the law to consider it a motorbike, but very few of these so-called speed pedelecs are being registered here as motorcycles. Our European cousins have recognised...

Next time you hear lazy stereotyping about who makes the better drivers, consider this. Male drivers are almost three times more likely than women to kill or seriously injure pedestrians . Analysis of government road crash data by The Guardian reveals that in the first six months of 2021, 4,363 male drivers were involved in crashes that...

If you're looking for a good example of how road traffic law enforcement is back to front, how about the case of the cyclist who was charged for delaying traffic by nine seconds? Following an intervention by the Cyclists' Defence Fund, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped its case against Tom Bosanquet who used his helmet cam to...