Live blog: Can an e-bike pull a car? UCI Track Worlds schedule, Col Collective vid, and ... I'm Alan Partridge ... appearing on a cycle safety poster near you soon + more

The UCI Track Cycling World Championships start tomorrow in Pruszkow, Poland.

18 months out from the Tokyo Olympics, it's a chance to benchmark Great Britain's progress as the next generation of riders comes through.

Follow this link for BBC Sport's coverage of the event.

Canyon has announced its first ever UK Pure Cycling Weekend which will take place over two days at Forest of Dean on the 11th & 12th May 2019. Modelled on the annual Pure Cycling Festival which takes place at Canyon’s HQ in Koblenz each Spring, there will be a wide selection of road, mountain and gravel bikes to demo alongside various ride-outs, competitions and athletes and partner brands in attendance.

Over the past couple of years, the Canyon UK team have run a number of demos and expos around the UK (including at our own BikeLive Demo Days), offering consumers the opportunity to see and try the German-engineered, award-winning bikes.

The event will be ticketed at £5 per head and will be available to purchase soon, 100% of the ticket sales proceeds will be donated to the Dean Trail Volunteers who work in partnership with the Forestry Commission to develop and maintain the mountainbike trails in the Forest of Dean and are raising money to build a new Downhill track. The complete program, demo bike list & partners will be announced soon on Canyon's website.

This is definitely one to watch if you're interested in buying a Canyon.

Mike Cotty takes us to the Swiss Alps for some dreamy scenery.

Sunshine, perfect tarmac and incredible views, what's not to love?

Remember last year when someone doctored placards near Bournemouth University urging drivers to give cyclists at least 1.5 metres of space when overtaking cyclists by slapping stickers of TV chef Ainsley Harriott’s face on the image of a bike rider?

Well, the TV personality-loving japester is back – and this time round, it’s none other than the man of the moment, back on our screens as of last night in his new BBC One series This Time With Alan Partridge, who fronts the spoof campaign.

Aha! someone has stuck pictures of Alan Partridge on signs urging drivers to keep their distance when passing cyclists in #Bournemouth https://t.co/ZuxidqZzoh We wonder what Alan would make of it pic.twitter.com/EC4dhaOrFh

— Bournemouth Echo (@Bournemouthecho) February 25, 2019

The Ainsley Harriott unofficial iteration of the campaign got taken down very quickly, with a council official saying: “We are aware that the cycle safety signs near the university have been defaced with stickers and they will be removed as soon as possible.”

The point is though, that the guerrilla campaign last year got way more people talking about the posters – and hopefully, taking note of the message – than would otherwise have been the case, and hopefully the new, albeit unofficial endorsement from the UK's best-loved TV show host will push awareness even higher.

And on that bombshell …