With more people cycling to work, bike safety equipment – from fibre optic lights to high visibility jackets – are flooding the market. But what if the bike itself was designed to keep cyclists safe? That's the thinking behind the digitally connected Venhawks Valour smart bike.

Around half a million bikes are sold in Denmark each year, and nine out of ten Danes own one. It's the ideal location for high-tech smart bike-sharing scheme Gobike to debut. But what will it mean for locals? And can it provide an effective solution to travel in other cities?

Whether its a hipster on their fixie, a banker on their Brompton or MAMIL (middle-aged man in lycra) on their road bike, city streets and country lanes in the UK are packed with cyclists. Around two million Brits now cycle at least once a week. What is making travelling by two wheels so popular?

Since Bradley Wiggins became the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France and star coach David Brailsford helped the GB cycling team win several Olympic golds, cycling has hit the mainstream. More than two million people cycle at least once a week in the UK.