I bought it for just under £3,000, and it developed a fault just before the warranty expired

In October I bought an electric Brompton bicycle for just under £3,000. Initially all was well but about three months before the two-year warranty expired, it started suffering intermittent power problems.

It would work on the electric assist, and then wouldn’t. I stopped using it as a result .

Campaigners say loss of £200m from active travel budget is illegal and resulted from Treasury pressure

Swingeing cuts to public spending on cycling and walking in England should be overturned as government expenditure was already insufficient to meet legally binding climate targets, the high court has been told.

Campaigners are challenging a decision in 2023 to cut more than £200m from Department for Transport’s active travel budget for the following two years.

• Welsh rider endures brutal conditions to win on Mur de Huy
• Poland’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma comes first in women’s race

Stephen Williams timed his finish to perfection to become the first British winner of the men’s La Flèche Wallonne.

The Israel-Premier Tech rider endured brutal conditions over 198.6km in Belgium – including torrential rain and even snow – before powering up the Mur de Huy for a fourth time to cross the finish line narrowly ahead of Kévin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels) and Maxim Van Gils (Lotto Dstny).

Lucy Fraser calls on sporting officials to draw up ‘unambiguous’ guidelines on gender identity

The culture secretary has called for transgender athletes to be banned from competing in female-only events as she urged sporting officials to draw up fresh guidelines to clarify the rules governing gender identity.

Lucy Frazer wrote in the Mail that sports governing bodies needed to set out an “unambiguous position” on the issue, amid rows over trans athletes participating in female only events including such as cycling, swimming and darts.

• Condensed four-stage race begins in Welshpool on 6 June
• Lizzie Deignan: ‘I’m grateful to the people who have pulled it off’

British Cycling has named the host towns for this summer’s Tour of Britain Women after what has been described as “monumental effort” to make sure the race goes ahead.

Ten weeks after the Guardian reported the governing body would organise the race in-house following the collapse of SweetSpot group, the outline of the route has been unveiled, with an opening stage starting in Welshpool and finishing in Llandudno on 6 June.

• British Ineos rider wins an Ardennes Classic for the first time
• Vos pips Lorena Wiebes on the line after early celebration error

Tom Pidcock claimed victory in the men’s Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, while in the women’s race Marianne Vos took a frenetic sprint on the line but only after Lorena Wiebes celebrated too early.

Pidcock, who finished second in the race in 2021 when losing out in a sprint to winner Wout van Aert, this time proved the strongest in the final metres, holding off Marc Hirschi and Tiesj Benoot to claim victory in the Dutch town of Valkenburg.

My first rideout back in 2011 was liberating – and this Sunday, the monthly demonstration celebrates a big milestone

Thirteen years ago, riding through central London on my way to meet a friend one evening, I found myself surrounded by hundreds of cyclists, some blaring horns, one popping wheelies, and even someone covered in lights, thundering out drum’n’bass from a mobile sound system.

In spite of being overdressed in a shirt and my best trousers, I was taken by the spontaneous solidarity of this diverse group, who I later found was mostly made up of strangers.

• Belgian wins six-rider sprint in fourth edition of the race
• Elisa Balsamo finishes second and Pfeiffer Georgi third

The world champion Lotte Kopecky delivered a devastating final sprint to claim the Paris-Roubaix Femmes title in a thrilling finish.

Belgium’s Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) was in a lead group of six when the 148.5km race arrived at the famous Roubaix velodrome and had enough in the tank to outpace her rivals. Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) finished second while Britain’s Pfeiffer Georgi (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) pipped Marianne Vos (Team Visma-Lease a Bike) to third place.

Once a way to save money on a bike to work, the scheme is now a ‘life hack’ to lessen a tax bill or to qualify for free childcare

No, it’s not a delayed April fool: putting in a request to have your wages cut may actually result in you being better-off at the end of the month.

Salary sacrifice, sometimes known as salary exchange, is a great, if counterintuitive, “life hack”, according to Alice Guy, the head of pensions and savings at the investment platform interactive investor.

It has long been associated with initiatives such as the government’s cycle-to-work scheme , where you give up some of your earnings in exchange for a heavily discounted bike for your commute.

But with hundreds of thousands more people being dragged into higher tax brackets from this month, financial experts are highlighting it as a way of bringing down your personal tax bill, too.