Handbags, messenger bags and panniers; here are our recommendations: Cyclodelic BraBag £85.00 Zwei Handlebar Bag from £48.00 Basil Mirte £40.00 Bagaboo Messenger Bags from £90.00 Ortlieb Zip-City from £64.50 Knog Frank £86.00 Berthoud Panniers £180.00 Brooks Roll Up Panniers £150.00 Basil Blossom £40.00

Brooks has a good post on how to keep your saddle theft-proof. Our recommended way is to fit a chain through rail and frame and envelope it in an inner tube; so: It is a service we offer for free to anyone who buys a Brooks saddle at Velorution, your Supreme Dealer of Excellence. Here is an equally good option, suggested by Brooks: Anybody with a passing interest in etymology will likely be familiar with the glut of theories that still do the rounds today [...]

The Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and husband Daniel recently visited the Skeppshult factory to collect their pair of V‘s. As Brooks reports, they fitted Flyer saddles and the new Slender Brooks grips. As you probably know, the other Royal couple was given a Cycle Hire Tandem by Boris as wedding gift. Something tells me that it will probably collect dust in some stables; I hope to be proven wrong; in the meantime, here is a picture of Kate Middleton and bike: