Interviews

Fixed gear is now a recognised part of mainstream cycling, just as it was way back in the ‘40s and ’50s. However, for a long time it was firmly out of favour with the exception of a few hardcore riders who remembered the benefits of riding fixed through the winter. Among those riders was a guy by the name of Will Meister.

theCOLLARBONE, a collaboration between Camille McMillan and Luke Scheybeler, formerly involved with, respectively, Rouler and Rapha, launched its iPad app earlier this month and road.cc caught up with them recently to find out the background to it and their future plans… take it away Simon.

Joanna Rowsell was one of Great Britain’s star riders at last week’s UCI Track World Cup in London, following up Friday’s victory in the team pursuit alongside Dani King and Laura Trott by winning the individual pursuit on Saturday evening. That performance made her one of only two British riders – the other being Sir Chris Hoy – to come away from the event with a pair of gold medals. In between those two winning rides, road.cc caught up with the 23-year-old from Sutton for an exclusive interview.

Ed Clancy has achieved a lot. He’s been World Champion in team pursuit and the multi-discipline omnium*, an Olympic gold medallist, world record holder, British criterium champ, and he’s got an MBE shining away on the mantelpiece… and he’s still only 25. 

Each year, there's a buzz surrounding the build-up to the Cycle Show mainly due to the anticipation of the goodies that will be on display, but this year it was louder than usual with the event  being opened by one of cycling's true greats, Mario Cipollini, who spoke with road.cc about his bikes, the rainbow jersey and London's cycling revolution, among other things.

World cyclo-cross champion Marianne Voss, who has also won world and Olympic championships on the track as well as the world road race title,  is one of the latest riders to sign up for Bike Pure, the Ireland-based organisation that in less than two years has become a major voice in the campaign for a clean sport, free of doping.

Heinrich Haussler grew up in Australia but, showing typical Aussie grit and determination, left for Germany - his Father’s homeland - at the age of 14 to pursue a career as a professional cyclist. His results this year are a reflection of his determined character and a change of team from Gerolsteiner to the newly formed Cervélo Test Team.

Since its launch last autumn, Bike Pure has become an online phenomenon in the cycling world. The non-profit website, founded by cycling fans and ex-racers Myles McCorry and Andy Layhe, seeks to promote clean riders and pave the way to a drugs-free future for cycling, and has quickly grown to almost 14,000 members, uniting fans, riders, professional teams, component manufacturers and governing bodies alike in an attempt to restore health to what its founders describe as “a damaged sport”.