bicycles

After the Papal visit bumped it east to Newham last year, the Tour of Britain will race its final leg round Westminster on 18 September 2011.

Registration for the Capital’s most dapper bike ride opens on Saturday.

Andrew Nethercot and James Johnson at the Going Going bike launch While in the past few years cycling may have officially become cool, the process of acquiring a second hand bike has decidedly not. Typically, potential buyers needed to trawl through pages of confusing online …

Image ©Farid Tejani at Creative Exposures, courtesy of Idea Generation Okay ladies, you’ve probably heard all of the reasons you should cycle. And while getting exercise and saving money on your commute are attractive incentives, it doesn’t mean getting started is actually easy. For those …

A few bleary-eyed and saddle-sore Londoners will have more-interesting-than-usual water cooler banter about what they did on their weekend. A big night down the pub? No, a 120 mile overnight bike ride to the Suffolk coast. The Dunwich Dynamo was run (and not won, it’s …

Dia sin carro by pattoncito Ignoring for a moment the palpable insecurity and the armed guards stationed at every shopfront, Bogota has something (behind the stunningly beautiful women) that London should adopt, according to one professor: a ban on motor vehicle traffic on Sundays. Road …

OK so you’ve got a bike, you want to visit three of East London’s most atmospheric venues and experience three types of performance – all in five hours? That’s what the Cycle East camp offered, an hour of theatre (Berkoff, Lenkiewicz, Eldridge), music (Portico Quartet …

Spring is in the air: The warm weather’s finally here, it’s light well into the evening, and the tube workers may or may not be striking. If you’ve ever flirted with the idea of adopting the bicycle as your means for getting around town, then …