The Ukranian e-bike brand Delfast are renowned for producing hugely powerful e-bikes that are way beyond anything that can be ridden without a licence in the UK and Europe… and they’ve now extended that to cargo vehicles so businesses can make super-charged deliveries, unveiling their all new Trike after six months in development.
“Spokes are so last year”, say Beno Technologies of their new, very unique-looking creation called Reevo, which was the result of four years of R+D, prototyping and testing before arriving at the finished product. Aimed at the urban cyclist, Reevo has hubless, spokeless wheels, a beam-style frame and one-sided fork, and can even be locked and unlocked with your fingertip.
One of the issues about working from home and keeping off public transport has been that cycling around to look at stuff has been that my range has been somewhat restricted and generally, positive street changes in my wider neck of the woods have been few and far between.
Anders Hartmann
5 hours ago
Jennie Dowd, daughter of Bootle MP Peter Dowd, was knocked off her bike while cycling near her home on Lunt Road in Sefton Village on September 27.The 31-year-old NHS worker died of her injuries in hospital on October 6th.A fundraising page has been set up to raise money for The Walton Centre charity in her honour.
“My thoughts are with my friend @peter_dowd and his family after the tragic loss of their daughter”, he wrote.
Carlton Reid
Trump’s aversion to cycling—and, it so happens, sharks—was delivered in a speech given in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, close to Biden’s Scranton birthplace and hours before the former Vice President was scheduled to give a prime-time speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I’ll never be riding a bicycle,” said President Trump, adding that his worry wasn’t about balance, bone spurs or bicyclists’ tan, but injuries: “I’m not getting hurt riding a bicycle.”
21 January 2018
BBC News
The bicycle was once a symbol of women’s emancipation, with suffragettes taking to two wheels to spread their message of equal rights. But the latest figures show a big gender divide when it comes to cycling. Why?
About 50% fewer women than men cycle twice a week or more, according to walking and cycling charity Sustrans, and when it comes to cycling on the roads, the number drops again.
Commonly cited reasons for shunning the benefits of getting into the saddle include sexual harassment, fears about appearance and concerns about safety. So what can be done to get more women on their bikes and out on the road?
Tackling sexist attitudes among male road users would be a first step, says Leigh Campbell, who leads all-women cycling rides in Nottingham.
“Sometimes, when I’ve been out cycling on my own, I’ve had male drivers shout at me as they’re overtaking,” said the 45-year-old British Cycling Breeze Champion.
“I’ve been told to ‘read the Highway Code’ and ‘get off the road’. I’ve also been sworn at.
Carlton Reid 08:26am EDT
In the first major interview since her re-election as Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that her manifesto promise to crack down on motoring in the French capital would be kept.
“We must forget the crossing of Paris from east to west by car,” she told the daily newspaper.
‘The city needs to evolve,” she added.
Comfortably re-elected in June for a second term, she said she intends to create permanent curb-protected cycleways and expand the number of lockdown cycleways, known in French as “coronapistes.” At an urban planning conference later this month she also plans to reveal plans on restricting petrol-powered motoring on the usually car-clogged highways on the upper quays of the Seine.
9th October 2020
By Grainne Cuffe, Local Democracy Reporter
Lambeth council has been “inundated” with requests for low traffic neighbourhoods across the borough – but doesn’t have money to implement more.
Lambeth received £2,639,000 from the Mayor of London’s Streetspace plans, the most out of all London councils, to cover emergency transport measures to aid social distancing and promote active travel in the wake of Covid-19.
LTNs, which involve placing camera-enforced or physical barriers in streets to prevent through-traffic, are being implemented across the capital as part of the scheme.
