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Galvani Electric Bike Review: Commuting, But Less Sweaty

Bikes are great -- cheap, light, easy to use, and super-duper-eco-friendly. But they're also tiring. I mean, all that pedalling. It's exercise. It sucks. So an electric bike, which gives you a subtle helping hand, would seem to be the best of both worlds. Read More >>

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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Tweet About Hitting People With Your Car #Bloodycardrivers

A mouthy lady driver has been shamed into deleting her entire Twitter account, after police began investigating her proud claim to have knocked a cyclist off his bike in Norwich. Read More >>

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Get a Terrifying, First-Hand Look at What It’s Like to Ride a 15-Foot-Tall Bike

When's the last time you really felt like a badass on a bicycle? Probably when your training wheels came off around the age of six. Well, fortunately for you, bike and oversized object enthusiast Richie Tremble has figured out a way to feel that sense of wobbly danger once again: a 14.5-foot, towering beach cruiser he calls the StoopidTall Tall Bike. Read More >>

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Turn Signal Gloves Vastly Increase Your Chances of Surviving an Urban Bike Ride

Your average motorist is more used to sharing the road with other vehicles than cyclists. So instead of just relying on your arms to safely signal an upcoming turn, consider these turn signal gloves, which let both cyclists and motorists alike know where you're headed. Read More >>

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Inventing the Cardboard Bicycle

Would you have thought it possible to make a bicycle from cardboard? It may seem like an unlikely form of transportation but one such inventor, an Israeli engineer and systems developer, Izhar Gafni, has created a bike made from cardboard that is strong, waterpoof and costs just £10 to manufacture. Read More >>

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Could This Bike On Steroids Really Hit 100mph?

Bike builder Tom Donhou — the namesake behind our very own Donhou Bicycles — has a dream, and possibly a death wish. He wants to ride a pedal-powered bike up to 100 miles per hour, and he's hoping this somewhat ludicrous creation is the bicycle that will let him do it. Read More >>

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Turn Some Boring Stools Into a Pint-sized Scooter With This Brilliant Ikea Hack

Ikea's furniture isn't just cheap and easy to transport, it's easy to hack too, with sites like Ikea Hackers showcasing some of the best modifications. But none can top this hack by Andreas Bhend and Samuel N. Bernier that converts a couple of Ikea Frosta stools into a pedal-less bike—or draisienne if you really want to get technical. Read More >>

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Test Your Model-Making Skills With This Plywood Lowrider

Designer Jurgen Kuipers' plywood Sawyer lowrider bike is as awesome to look at as it probably is to cruise around the neighbourhood on. So much so that Kuipers has actually created a full-size, 1:1 scale model of the bike that comes packaged just like a plastic model kit. Read More >>

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Bikers Rejoice: You’ve Got Your Own (Equally Unaffordable) Lamborghini Now

Rather cycle than drive? Prefer beautiful, totally unattainable things to realistic purchases? Enter the Lamborghini 50th Anniversary Edition impec, a bike that's as beautiful as it is out of your reach. Read More >>

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2014 Tour de France Staring in… Yorkshire

Golden boy Bradley Wiggins and the rest of our magisterial cyclists won't have too far to travel to join the Tour de France in 2014, thanks to Tour organisers announcing that the 2014 bike race will start in Yorkshire. Read More >>

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Basket Pannier Straps a Portable Picnic Table To Your Bike

If dining in the great outdoors is your cup of tea, you'll love designer Jeriël Bobbe's Springtime picnic basket. Not only does it make it easy to use your bike to transport everything you'll need for a feast in the park—from plates, to cups, to food—the basket also transforms into a picnic table for two. Read More >>

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Oh Dear, Robocop’s New Vehicles Look Lame

First we saw a spy-shot of the new Robocop-reboot suit on set, which looked more like Batman crossed with Tron than the bullet-proof rozzer from the original Robocop. Now we get a glimpse at Robo's new cars and, err, bike. And, well, they're pretty lame-looking. Read More >>

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How Will Hipsters Afford This Gorgeous and Insanely Expensive Carbon Fibre Fixie?

They're the preferred mode of transport for flannel plaided hipsters, sure, but when a fixie is crafted from carbon fibre by a company with a mastery of the material, it's downright impossible for anyone not to lust over. Oh, UBC Coren bike, you are purdy. Even if £20,300 in a stupid amount of money to spend on a bicycle. Read More >>

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This Beautiful Bike Is Made From Bent Beech Wood

This bike, designed by Andy Martin for furniture manufacturer Thonet, is unlike any other we've ever seen. Save for its wheels and drivetrain, the whole thing is made from swooping lengths of steamed beech wood—and it looks just beautiful as a result. Read More >>

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Police Driver Undertakes Cyclist; Head Camera Captures Everything

A police driver forced his way past a cyclist using a London bus lane to undertake him, and might have got away with it were it not for the biker's head-mounted camera capturing the entire confrontation for the entertainment of the YouTube massive. Read More >>