Tag: safety

  • Life Paint

    Life Paint

    Fizz This Fizz.  That’s the sound of a life being saved.  I heard it, or should I say, saw it take place on an ad to help save lives. Nothing unusual about that, except it comes from a car manufacturer, Volvo.  Nice, if not no surprise, there.  Tonight, maybe one more cyclist will be safer, and…

  • Fly6 – The Review

    Fly6 – The Review

      The pair have captured the imagination of the cycling community. When Kingsley Fiegert was attacked from behind whilst riding his bicycle, he got thinking: this isn’t right, there’s got to be something I can do about this.  Partnering up with Andrew Hagen, they put their minds together and came up with the briliant idea of making an all in…

  • Vorsprung…The Invisible Helmet

    Vorsprung…The Invisible Helmet

    Yes, you know how this one should go: ‘Vorsprung Durch Technik’, the German phrase popularised by the Audi car manufacturer.  It can be roughly translated into English as ‘progress through technology’.  Although, a more literal translation would be ‘advancement through technology’.  So far it seems, there is no single English word which is an exact rendering of ‘vorsprung’; ‘to leap ahead’ comes…