3 d. ago London cycling vigilante pushes bike into car in incident with driver

Michael van Erp, known as Cycling Mikey, posted a five-minute video showing him attempting to stop a motorist from driving past roadworks on Paddenswick Road in Hammersmith

Transport

8 d. ago London bus driver who killed schoolgirl cycling on pavement has sentence changed

London bus driver who killed schoolgirl cycling on pavement has sentence changed  MyLondon

Events

9 d. ago 'The weather has beaten us this time': riders forced to turn back as storm batters top UK ultra

'The weather has beaten us this time': riders forced to turn back as storm batters top UK ultra-cycling event London-Edinburgh-London  Cycling Weekly

Events

9 d. ago "Sadly the adventure is going to have to be a little briefer": London

"Sadly the adventure is going to have to be a little briefer": London-Edinburgh-London ultra cycling event shortened after riding suspended by 100mph Storm Floris gusts  road.cc

Politics

1 week ago He worked with artificial limbs for decades. Then a lorry ripped off his right arm. What happened when the expert became the patient?

An experienced clinician in prosthetics, Jim Ashworth-Beaumont found himself the perfect guinea pig for a radical new option for amputeesWhen the air ambulance brought Jim Ashworth-Beaumont to King’s College hospital in south-east London, nobody thought he had a hope. He had been cycling home when a lorry driver failed to spot him alongside his trailer while turning left after a set of traffic lights. The vehicle’s wheels opened his torso like a sardine tin, puncturing his lungs and splitting his liver in two. They also tore off his right arm. Weeks after the accident, in July 2020, Ashworth-Beaumont would see a photo of the severed limb taken by a doctor while it lay beside him in hospital. He had asked to see the picture and says it helped him come to terms with his loss. “My hand didn’t look too bad,” he says. “It was as if it was waving goodbye to me.”Ashworth-Beaumont, a super-fit and sunny former Royal Marine from Edinburgh, would go on to spend six weeks in an induced coma as...

Science

4 w. ago “This ‘us vs them’ mentality is exaggerated online”: London’s cycling chief says reckless, law

“This ‘us vs them’ mentality is exaggerated online”: London’s cycling chief says reckless, law-breaking cyclists and drivers are fuelling a toxic culture war  Road.cc

Politics

4 w. ago Some cyclists are idiots, says London's cycling tsar, in new row over red

Sir Sadiq Khan’s aide also rails against motorists who drive too fast, without insurance and while on the phone

Politics

4 w. ago London's cycling tsar: Some cyclists are idiots but war between them and drivers is 'exaggerated'

Mayor’s aide rails against red-light jumpers - and motorists who drive too fast, without insurance and on their phone

Events

4 w. ago London's cycling tsar: Some cyclists are idiots but war between them and drivers 'exaggerated'

Mayor’s aide rails against red-light jumpers - and motorists who drive too fast, without insurance and on their phone

Events