When it comes to transporting kids, especially on the school run, there are various different options one can see on London streets. By far the simplest and most popular is the child seat, very simply but securely fitted onto the front stem or the rear rack of a bike.   The benefit to the cyclist is that the investment to hold the child is relatively low, with most better quality child seats ranging at around £100 or slightly more. Miriam, who has a BoBike Junior [...]

The Sunday Times features three women who cycle to work. Scroll through the pictures and you will see three actractive women. Two of them are hardly recognisable in their cyclying outfit, full of glaring orange and fluoro-yellow. The third chooses differently: I have a core uniform to cycle in — an American Apparel unitard, or leggings and a vest, which I can throw things over the top of, maybe a Phillip Lim shirt with a Lara Bohinc belt. Often, I’ll wear a tunic on top, [...]

Biggest perk of being a politician? People go out of their way to find your stolen bike. Days after Notting Hill was mobilised to retrieve Cameron’s bike, Camden councillor Rebecca Hossack’s bike was stolen. She contacted the Camden New Journal and the next day they published a story and a picture of her bike. [Rebecca has much more style than Cameron; she had bought a green Azor Oma from our shop]. Within hours, the Police was alerted that the green bike had been spotted, chained [...]