Registration for the 2011 Brompton World Championship opens on Monday 16.05.11. The race is on 21.08.11

David Hembrow, maker of beautiful wicker baskets, including ones for the Brompton (available at our store), has moved to the Netherlands last year. He has sent this report, counterbalancing our adulatory obituary of Hans Mondemann: I feel the English speaking (and possibly other) countries have far more interest in these schemes than they should have. This, sadly, seems to be particularly true of cyclists in those countries, even though they have the most to lose. His schemes are not nearly as popular here, where people [...]

If you care about London, there is only one person to vote for next year. Here is Jenny Jones exposing how fake Boris is: 2011 was the third year of mayoral press releases claiming ‘record levels of investment in cycling’ and the third year of delivering less than promised. I have discovered that Boris has under-spent his annual cycling budgets so far, by £80m. However, I can guarantee that we won’t get a fourth press release claiming a ‘record level’ of spending on cycling, as [...]