.the cycling news headlines from the past month *bong*

.sex with a bike
Just how much do you love your bike? Well it can't be as much love as that shown by Robert Stewart. Mr Stewart has just been convicted of the rather bizarre offence of having sex with a bike after being caught out in October last year. It seems this 'criminal' was staying at Aberley House Hostel when two cleaners tried to get into the locked room. Unble to get a reply to their knocks they used a master key to enter, and found Mr Stewart 'simulating' sex with his bicycle, his trousers around his ankles. He is now listed on the sex offenders register. This poses two questions: Can sex in a locked room by a sexual offence when the act itself is not illegal; and just how do you have sex with a bike?

.possible helmet law?
How unusual to have Tory MP mentioned after a sex scandal... Wellingborough MP, Peter Bone, is a man on a mission. The member of the All-Party Road Traffic Group has strted pushing for it to be made compulsory in the UK for children under 14 to have to wear a helmet when cycling. The '10 minute rule bill' is unlikely to be passed, given the machinations of Parliament and the hurdles to be overcome, but it is still a worrying move for many cyclists who see the idea of compulsion for helmet-wear to be potentially damaging for cycling as a whole. The arguments will rage long and hard, but the lack of any detailed research or evidence in the proposals from Mr Bone, merely suggestions that th Highway Code sugegsts it is already law, with incredulity that it isn't because wearing a helmet is of 'obvious' benefit, can only stifle the true debate which still needs to occur.