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Tuesday 26 November
“I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride it where I like.” (As a wise man once said.) Welcome to cycle.travel – the site for commuting, touring and weekending cyclists. We’re launching with route guides, city guides and Britain’s best online cycle map… and there’s much more to come. Click to find out more about us.
Friday 6 December · London
London’s fleet of hire bikes is seeing an alarming fall in popularity – but the company that runs it, Serco, is set to pick up a two-year contract extension. Transport for London has disclosed…
Thursday 5 December
Portland, Oregon, is the undisputed cycling capital of the US – with bike lanes a-plenty. But how do cyclists in the rainy, windy Pacific Northwest deal with the autumn weather? …
Thursday 5 December · Cambridge
Howes Cycles of Cambridge, said to be Britain’s first bike shop, is closing its doors after 173 years. The shop, on Regent Street, was set up in 1840 by coachbuilder…
Thursday 5 December · York
York City Council has installed a clutch of new cycle racks in the city centre, bringing the total number of parking spaces to over 1,000. The council says the number of…
Thursday 5 December · Bristol
Boris Johnson might be unconvinced by the merits of an HGV ban on London’s streets, but Bristol’s mayor George Ferguson is strongly in favour. At a question and answer session…
Tuesday 3 December
Carbon fibre is so old hat. 2013’s must-buy Christmas bike is wooden – and comes in a flat pack. The Sandwichbike is the brainchild of Dutch designer Basten Lejh.…
Monday 2 December · Cambridge
Busy employment sites around Cambridge are to become easier to access by bike, with the construction of three new cycleways in the New Year. The three routes, funded by the…
Monday 2 December · London
London’s Cycle Superhighway 2 has been hastily ‘unpainted’ at Bow Roundabout, after a coroner described the route as “an accident waiting to happen”. CS2’s terrible accident record has dominated cycling…
Monday 2 December · York
For one of Britain’s premier cycling cities, York has been strangely bereft of a cycling café – until now. Your Bike Shed, next to Micklegate Bar, opened this month…
Friday 29 November
Hereford’s new cycle bridge, one of the Sustrans Connect2 projects, is to open to the public on Tuesday 10th December. The bridge over the River Wye at Rotherwas will link…
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