The bill making helmets compulsory for cyclists rests on one figure — and that figure covers scooters. Three bills since 2021, not a single vote.
Since 2021, three bills have sought to make cycle helmets compulsory. None has been put to a vote — and the one aimed at cyclists rests on a figure about e-scooters.
A public subsidy born on 1 September 2025, repealed twenty-nine days later. The state turned off the tap for cargo bikes — the tradespeople, for their part, keep riding.
A CEE scheme published on 22 August 2025, repealed on 29 September. Three years of public money end there — the tradespeople keep riding.
Custom-made bags, ultralight gear, the aesthetics of the bivouac: how a practice born of improvisation became a market. We put a figure on the gap.
The word was coined in 1973, the shop aisle in the 2010s: the gap, not the gear, is the story.
Late 1902. The newspaper L'Auto is losing money, outsold by its rival Le Vélo. Around a table, a twenty-five-year-old writer floats an idea judged outlandish: a bicycle race around the whole of France. The Tour de France was not born of a sporting dream. It was born of a cash-flow problem.
A newspaper on the brink of bankruptcy invents the Tour de France to sell paper — and creates a monument.
New bike sales are sliding while second-hand climbs: start-ups worth hundreds of millions, worn-out batteries, stolen bikes — anatomy of a market with no rules.
Start-ups worth hundreds of millions, tired batteries, stolen bikes: a market with no rules.
On 11 September 2024, a 38-year-old American rode back past Buckingham Fountain in Chicago after four continents and twenty-two countries. Lael Wilcox had just circled the world by bike in 108 days. The story of an epic.
Chicago to Chicago, a round-the-world ride that ends on a record.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the bicycle did more for women's emancipation than most political speeches. The story of a quiet revolution.
The bicycle tears through skirts and corsets, and rides with the first suffragists.
The bill making helmets compulsory for cyclists rests on one figure — and that figure covers scooters. Three bills since 2021, not a single vote.
A public subsidy born on 1 September 2025, repealed twenty-nine days later. The state turned off the tap for cargo bikes — the tradespeople, for their part, keep riding.
Custom-made bags, ultralight gear, the aesthetics of the bivouac: how a practice born of improvisation became a market. We put a figure on the gap.
Late 1902. The newspaper L'Auto is losing money, outsold by its rival Le Vélo. Around a table, a twenty-five-year-old writer floats an idea judged outlandish: a bicycle race around the whole of France. The Tour de France was not born of a sporting dream. It was born of a cash-flow problem.
New bike sales are sliding while second-hand climbs: start-ups worth hundreds of millions, worn-out batteries, stolen bikes — anatomy of a market with no rules.
On 11 September 2024, a 38-year-old American rode back past Buckingham Fountain in Chicago after four continents and twenty-two countries. Lael Wilcox had just circled the world by bike in 108 days. The story of an epic.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the bicycle did more for women's emancipation than most political speeches. The story of a quiet revolution.