Preview a route with a 3D birds-eye animation, whether you’re driving, walking, biking or using public transport Google Maps now includes a cool new feature that lets you preview a route with a 3D birds-eye animation, whether you’re driving, walking, biking or using mass transit. To use it, go to Google Maps, click “Get directions,” [...]

London 2012 organisers have unveiled the details of their £10 million improvement package for London’s cycle and walking networks, which they hope will encourage spectators to pedal and stroll to the Olympics next summer. Eight walking and cycling routes, which amounts to some 75 kilometres, have been enhanced by Transport for London (TfL), to link [...]

Motorcycle insurance specialist Carole Nash is launching a groundbreaking new theft-reduction scheme which will see it provide a cutting edge forensic coding system to UK bikers. In a pioneering initiative the company is to provide a sophisticated combination of microdot and Digital Nanoparticle Authentification (DNA) technologies free to any biker who takes out or renews [...]

  For a quick, easy way to safely store your bike outdoors, look no further than the Trimetals Protect a Cycle outdoor storage unit. The tough, compact store has room for up to three full-size bikes. What’s more, it’s highly secure – boasting the Secured by Design mark, Police Preferred spec and Loss Prevention Board [...]

When car radios first went on sale 80 years ago they cost the equivalent of £1000, but such was their success at distracting from the incessant noise of a long motorway journey or tiresome passenger that they soon became a standard item. But while many cyclists now use an iPod, the bicycle equivalent of a [...]

Brands Hatch GP 7th October 2011 – 9th October 2011 Brands Hatch is one of the most iconic sporting venues in the world and can lay claim to being the busiest race circuit in Europe. Having undergone a series of major improvements in recent years, the Kent circuit now attracts some of the biggest international events on [...]

An industrious garage owner in Mexico has invented a revolutionary new anti-theft device that could be the perfect way to protect your pride and joy against against bike thieves. Fed up with his garage being robbed of equipment, the owner spread the word he had bought a Mexican Lion and it lived in his workshop. [...]

It has become apparant that many areas in the UK  have been targeted by thieves stealing gas cylinders. The bottles are valuable as they can be either traded in or sold for scrap. Police are warning people after this spate of thefts and commented “We would ask people not to leave gas bottles in view to [...]