On the road: Bamboo Mountain Bike

Helen Pidd: 'Believe it or not, the choice of bamboo as a building material is less about appealing to Guardian readers than about making a superstrong yet light bicycle'

Skoda Octavia: car review

For 10 years, Skoda has been supplying the Tour de France with new cars. And no one has ever felt cheated, says William Fotheringham

On the road: Eastway ST1.0

'This steel-framed turquoise beauty is better equipped for cycling to work than for apeing le Tour de Yorkshire,' Helen Pidd says

How roads were not built for cars

Carlton Reid: A history of how 19th-century cyclists paved the way for modern roads offers clues to how cars could again lose their dominance