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In pictures: The beauty of the bicycle
A possible alternative to a MAXXRAXX cycle carrier?
The Bike Friday was designed for the world tourist, the case being used to transport the bicycle on aeroplanes. When cycling, the bike's case would double as a trailer. The designers, Alan and Hanz Scholz, liked the idea of people cycling away from the airport after landing at their destination.
For more photos illustrating the beauty of the bicycle:
BBC News: The beauty of the bicycle
2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
War veterans Butterworth and Byrne win medals in Italy
War veterans Jon-Allen Butterworth and Terry Byrne won medals in their first major event, at the World Track Para-Cycling Championships in Italy. Butterworth, 25, set a new world record in winning the 1km time trial (C5) in one minute, 7.615 seconds. Byrne, 26, finished second in the 1km time trial (C4) behind team-mate Jody Cundy, who broke his own world record. Darren Kenny added kilo gold (C3) to his win in Friday's pursuit, as Sarah Storey clinched the C5 pursuit title.
Butterworth and Bryne are the first athletes to come through the Battle Back programme, which helps wounded service personnel. Butterworth lost his left arm in a rocket attack on Basra Air Station in Iraq in August 2007, while Byrne had a below-knee amputation after being injured on night patrol in Afghanistan in 2008.
Read more: BBC News: Battling their way back
Para Cycling success for GB para cycling team in Italy
Great Britain claim seven medals on day one of the UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari, Italy, including a clean sweep in the men's 3km pursuit as Darren Kenny wins gold, Sean McKeown silver and Rick Waddon bronze. And Scotland's Craig Maclean adds to his haul of nine world titles in able-bodied events as pilot for Neil Fachie in the tandem kilo. At the end of the weekend, the Great Britain team had won 18 medals including 9 golds.
For more news of the event visit:
BBC News Para_Cycling World Championships
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UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, MONTICHIARI - ITALY
TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TfL)
If you want to know anything about cycling in the capital, the chances are that you will be able to find it on the TfL web site. It also has much valuable information for anyone with an interest in cycling, especially safety matters.
If you go to the Transport for London bicycle training section of their web site you will find information on training courses for adults as well as children.
If you go to cycling safety there is also an excellent video about the need to be aware of lorries when riding a bicycle. It looks at the dangers associated with cycling near lorries from both the perspective of a cyclist and the lorry driver.
In fact, the site is full of useful information. There are sections dealing with routes, guides and maps, new cyclists, commuters or simply for those who have time and want to use their bicycles just for fun.
Local Government encouraging cycling
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PEDALLING THE BENEFITS OF CYCLING
Local authorities can help encourage more people to take up cycling, but a sustained communications strategy is required, as Cheryl Campsie explains. |  |
The bike thief is hot on Britain's wheels
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Here is an entertaining little exercise if you are one of the million Britons who regularly cycle and leave your bike appended to railings, drainpipes and cycle racks on a frequent basis. Go to YouTube and type in the words "bike lock". You will be presented with a large selection of videos detailing the merits of different types of locks and handily demonstrating, for trainee thieves everywhere, how to pick them apart. |
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Police advice - register your bike frame |
Park your bike securely |
The etiquette of parking your bike.
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