Interviews

Chris Snook of new UK outfit Madison Genesis has just been racing the likes of Bradley Wiggins, Tyler Farrar, Alejandro Valverde and Tony Martin in Challenge Mallorca, but he’ll be back in the office catching up with emails on Monday morning. How does he manage to combine racing at a high level with holding down a fulltime job? We caught up with him at his team training camp on Mallorca after the race to find out.

As we stood by the roadside or sat in front of our televisions watching Jonathan Tiernan-Locke win the Tour of Britain on home turf, how many of us thought about the organisation which allows the race to take place safely? How long it takes to plan, and what those involved do? One aspect of this is how to make normally busy roads safe to race on.

Pat McQuaid, President of the UCI and the head of world cycle sport is a man of strong opinions and an often controversial figure, whether you agree with him or not he always has something to say, and what he has to say usually shapes UCI policy. We caught up with him in London this week for an in-depth interview about the Olympics, the state of professional cycle sport and much more.

Since 2005, World Bicycle Relief has provided more than 100,000 specially designed, locally assembled, rugged bicycles to disaster victims, healthcare workers, students and entrepreneurs in Asia and Africa.

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.