Is a bike mug holder your cup of tea?

A hot beverage holder on the handlebars is a dream concept, but there are problems with the execution of the design.

Helen Pidd with the Soma Morning Rush Coffee Holder for cyclists. Photograph: Graham Turner

Is there anything more smug than someone riding a bicycle while drinking a cup of tea?

Every time I lifted the cup from its handlebar-holder while waiting at traffic lights, I swear I could hear the drivers behind muttering in disapproval. As if it wasn't bad enough that I had plonked myself in front of them, delaying their acceleration out of the lights by, oooh, at least a second or two, I had the nerve to quench my thirst while I waited for green.

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