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New 24-hour Santander Cycles membership registrations rose by 167% in the year to December 2020, representing the largest increase in the scheme’s ten-year history, new figures released by TfL have shown. Total hire numbers for 2020 were 10,434,167, an increase of around 6,000 hires from 2019, despite an overall reduction …

Independent bike repair company havebike has appointed Fusion Media as its UK PR agency. The agency will help raise awareness of havebike across specialist, mainstream and national media titles as well as secure influencer partnerships. “We are delighted to be working with Fusion Media whose expertise, passion and strategic knowledge …

Campagnolo has suspended its sales to the UK through its website – but distribution has not been affected, said Chicken CycleKit. “We hereby communicate that all sales with delivery to the UK are suspended until new updates, awaiting for EU disposition in regards to the Brexit situation,” said a pop-up …

New digital product discovery platform Buyerdock is searching for indie retail volunteers for trials. The platform has been developed over the past two years, through discussions with retailers and sellers from the UK, Europe and the USA. During the first lockdown, funding was raised to develop the test platform. “Discovering …

TfL, the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Hounslow have opened two new temporary cycle lanes, totalling almost 5.5 kilometres of space as part of the Mayor’s Streetspace programme. This builds on the 90 kilometres of new or upgraded cycle lanes that have been delivered or are …