New bike show for Sheffield

Fresh from its starring role in last year’s Tour de France, Sheffield is to get its own cycle show. The Sheffield Cycle Show takes place on 25th May (Bank Holiday…

Small change for banks - Santander to sponsor Boris Bikes

You and I may call them ‘Boris Bikes’, but London’s cycle hire scheme has officially been known as ‘Barclays Cycle Hire’. Barclays signalled last year that it didn’t want to…

Cycle Superhighway 1 takes the backstreet route

East London is to get a new Cycle Superhighway – but a very different creature to the dramatic plans for the cross-London routes. Whereas the recently approved North-South and East-West…

Negotiations for Wootton Bassett cycle route

The long-held dream of a safe cycle route from Wootton Bassett to Swindon is inching closer, with Sustrans and Wiltshire Council working together to design a new route. The Gazette…

Tough drill makes light work of bike-friendly kerbs

As segregated urban cycleways become more common in Britain, traditional straight-up kerbs have come in for criticism. Standard vertical kerbs reduce the width available to cyclists, and make it more…