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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Cyclists, lose the Brockley high ground

Aug

2016

Cyclists are brilliant. We reduce congestion, parking problems and the pollution that kills tens of thousands of Londoners each year. We make roads safer by reducing the number of cars on the road and we reduce crushing on trains by cutting the number of rail commuters.We should be loved. And yet, we are hated by ...

Button, Button

Jun

2016

Want a free Flic button so you can fight danger?My firm, Edelman, is working with the Swedish makers of airbags for heads Hövding to map London's cycling danger zones using data from cyclists, captured with a sexy Flic button like this, which can be attached to your handlebars:The 'Give a Beep’ initiative will collect data ...

The Bike Angel returns

May

2016

Nestor, the Brockley Bike Doctor, has returned to Hilly Fields. A velocipedal angel, he offers maintenance and advice workshops every dry Saturday throughout the summer.Nestor offers drop-in sessions up by the tennis courts between 11am and 3pm. The one-to-one "Fix Your Bike" sessions are a chance to learn how to offer your bike TLC and fix ...

People all over Crofton Park, join a bike train

Mar

2016

You don't have to be fed up with trains to want to cycle to work, you just need a shower in your workplace and a bike. But if you are fed up with the Crofton Park-Blackfriars service (a circuitous trundle through South London, even at the best of times) then a new "bike train" group ...

The Brockley Way

Sep

2015

Friend o'BC Fintan is making his way steadily from Land's End to John O'Groats by bike. Recently, he passed through "the other Brockley" (or Lesser Brockley), just south of Bristol. This is how they roll:

Deptford junction is among Britain’s top cycle injury hotspots

Aug

2015

As part of its campaign to increase cycling in British cities The Times has worked with Esri UK to produce an interactive map, which documents each incident in which a cyclist was injured or killed in 2014. With 75% of incidents taking place at a junction, they have listed the eight most dangerous junctions in ...

Free bike maintenance and advice on Hilly Fields

Aug

2015

Nestor writes:I'm a local resident and I'm going to be offering Bike Doctor maintenance and advice workshops on Hilly Fields, every Saturday (weather permits) during warm months.The proposed time of the session is between 11am and 3pm. The workshop will run as a one-to-one "Fix Your Bike" session where you'll have a chance to offer ...

Cyclist deaths, 1914 and 2015

Jun

2015

Cyclists lay down in the road and blocked traffic on Monday night in Camberwell, to mark the death on 29 May of Esther Hartsilver. Esther , a physiotherapist at Kings College Hosptial, was killed when hit by a lorry while cycling close to the hospital in Denmark Hill. She was the sixth cyclist killed on ...

Coming soon: London Velo

May

2015

One of the best things about London's biking boom (somewhere on the list below improved public health, better air quality and lower traffic congestion) is the return of independent bike shops to our high streets. The area's already attracted Curve, Ladywell Village Cycles, Vaidas and the life-saving Brockley Bikes. Now comes London Velo, joining Curve on ...

Cleaner, greener, safer future temporarily spoils Greenwich cycle path

Feb

2015

Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.- Jurassic ParkThe driverless car future moved up a gear this week with the start of autonomous vehicle trials on Greenwich Peninsula, one of three sites in the country to host pilot ...