A new bike auction site – Going Going Bike offers a dedicated bike auction site. It looks good and I like the efforts to deter thieves with the bike certificate of ownership initiative. There is no upfront fee only 5% of final selling price. I am often reluctant to sell bikes, because you can lose […]

There are some days, when you can feel quite vulnerable pedalling a lonely furrow amidst the stream of passing cars and lorries. This week has been a salutatory reminder of the dangers on our road. Wednesday, I went for a 70 mile cycle ride to High Wycombe; where-ever I cycled I seemed to come across […]

(A cunning anti theft device, as soon as it touches the ground, the alarm sounds.) Last year 23,000 bikes were reported stolen in London, an average of 63 per day — up 30 per cent on last year, with unreported thefts estimated to add another 40,000 to 60,000. A recent survey found that 1 in […]