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New Flit-16 folding e-bike: tech and first ride impressions
How's the Flit-16 to ride around Kings Cross in London?
By Paul Norman • Published
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Brompton Electric bike: first ride of the speedy folding machine
Britain’s best loved, best selling bike just went Electric. There will be many of you reading this that have never ridden an e-bike before (and perhaps not a Brompton), so let me tell you this from the start – you’re missing out...
By Simon Richardson • Published
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13 ways to make your ride to work more like Paris-Roubaix
Paris-Roubaix is excellent, but it's very hard to replicate it in its full glory outside of northern France. So here are a few ways you can make your rides feel more like the Hell of the North
By Stuart Clarke • Published
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Number of people cycling in England has decreased over the past year, finds survey
Sport England 'Active Lives' survey shows a drop in the number of people cycling
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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Watch: Comedian's film about cycling in London is an internet hit
Comedian and singer Jay Foreman turns the attention of his 'Unfinished London' video series to look at why more people don't cycling in Britain's capital
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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Increase in Scotland's bike use is 'start of a cycling revolution'
Transport Scotland statistics released this week show that the use of cycles increased in 2016, with Cycling UK saying that the figures are encouraging
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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Safety fears are main reason Scottish children don't cycle to school, finds survey
Results of survey conducted by Sustrans Scotland and the Scottish Parent Teacher Council finds that over 42 per cent of parents unsafe cycling routes prevent children from riding to school
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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What is the evidence that wearing hi-vis clothing makes you a safer cyclist?
Roads minister suggests making bright kit mandatory for cyclists in Britain - but what's the evidence to back up the claim that this could help increase safety?
By Vern Pitt • Published
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Are Britain’s roads getting more dangerous for cyclists? What can be done about it?
With still much to be achieved in improving the safety of Britain's road for cyclists, we asked Cycling Weekly readers what they thought could be done
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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Could this be Britain's most 'useless' cycle park?
Large cycle park in basement of new building in Cambridge can only be accessed by steep stairs, making it hard for people to get their bikes into it
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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Dangers of cycling in London highlighted by film of a month's worth of commuting (video)
Journalist filmed his London commute every day for a month, and made a compilation of the dangers faced
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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Nine reasons why commuting by bike is surprisingly brilliant
With train and tube strikes affecting many people's commute, maybe it's time to try cycling into work... and here's why
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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World's largest cycle parking facility opens for business (video)
Utrecht central station's new underground bike store can currently hold 6,000 cycles, but will expand to hold over 12,000 by 2018
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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Bike thief reveals tricks of the trade in this shockingly candid interview
A former bicycle thief reveals exactly how London bikes are stolen and then distributed around the country for sale
By Henry Robertshaw • Published
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Cycling is so popular in Copenhagen that information panels will be installed to reduce bike traffic jams
With so many cyclists entering the city each day ministers are looking at new ways to prevent two-wheeled traffic jams
By Craig Cunningham • Published
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More than 270,000 commutes logged on Strava during Global Bike to Work Day
Riders on Strava recorded a staggering 276,818 commutes on Global Bike to Work Day, smashing last year's record by nearly 200,000 rides.
By Henry Robertshaw • Published
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Lack of basic facilities provided for cycling commuters at work laid bare by report
Cyclists and non-cyclists alike call for better shower and drying facilities in workplaces as report shows the lack of provision for cycling commuters.
By Henry Robertshaw • Published
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Quad bike gritters to be deployed to keep London's cycle routes ice free
Transport for London will use quad bikes equipped with ice-melting equipment to treat cycle lanes inaccessible to lorry gritters
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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Transport Secretary proves worth of segregated cycle lanes by dooring cyclist (video)
The video from October 12, which was sent by a following cyclist to the Guardian newspaper, shows a rider sent flying by an opening car door
By Jack Elton-Walters • Published
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Chris Boardman leads campaign for junction rule change to make cycling safer
Chris Boardman will lead a joint campaign of British Cycling, The AA and pedestrian groups that calls for a change to the Highway Code
By Jack Elton-Walters • Published
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Cyclists in London can now report dangerous driving online
Been involved in a near-miss with a driver in London? You can now share your footage online
By Chris Marshall-Bell • Published
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Cycle To Work scheme will continue, government's Autumn Statement confirms
Cuts in employee tax breaks will not include any changes to the popular Cycle To Work scheme, Phillip Hammond announces in Autumn Statement
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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People who commute to work by bike should get £250 tax break, says British Cycling
British Cycling to lobby government with proposal to give cycle commuters a tax break, a move that has the backing of Chris Boardman and Dame Sarah Storey
By Vern Pitt • Published
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Riders collide on London cycle superhighway (video)
A dangerous manoeuvre on one of London's segregated cycle superhighway causes an incident that could have been a lot more serious. Plus read on for more of the best recent cycling videos
By Jack Elton-Walters • Published
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It's time to transform Britain into a great cycling nation, says British Cycling
British Cycling launches its #ChooseCycling Charter, urging local authorities to sign up to a three-point plan to improve cycling in Britain
By Nigel Wynn • Published
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Janet Street-Porter bemoans improvements to London's roads, plus more cycling videos
The television personality misses the irony in her own statements as she complains about the new cycle infrastructure in Central London
By Jack Elton-Walters • Published
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New London mayor Sadiq Khan must follow through on cycling promises, says Boardman
Chris Boardman calls on Sadiq Khan to live up to his promise to increase spending for cycling in his term as Mayor of London
By Stuart Clarke • Published
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Bradley Wiggins: 'Cyclists have to help themselves by behaving'
The 2012 Tour de France winner spoke out about some cyclists not abiding by the rules when riding in London
By Jack Elton-Walters • Published
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Cambridge station's new CyclePoint will have space for almost 3,000 bikes (video)
The new cycle parking will open on Monday February 15, and is believed to be the biggest of its kind in the UK
By Jack Elton-Walters • Published