On a bleak English day in March 2019, The Right Honourable The Lord Winston stood in Parliament’s House of Lords and asked whether cyclists “riding bicycles in city centres should have a licence and third-party insurance?”
Biking in most European cities involves many things that can make you fly off the handle(bars): fuming lorries, peevish drivers, traffic jams, roadways intersecting cycle paths in an unfortunate way, tricky rails, cobblestones, rough kerbs, infinite rows of traffic lights, lack of space to park…
Whether you’re driving a car or riding a bike, the place you’re most likely to collide with another vehicle is a junction – where two or more roads meet. And given that no one wants to bend their frame, or scratch their paintwork – what…
Even if you get yourself a decent D-Lock, your bike is never entirely safe. If we forget about the fact that some thugs don’t even try to be discreet about their thieving and saw your lock off straight out, the others are still very interested…
