Markus Stitz is no stranger to riding a gravel bike or putting a good route together. For this book, he went one better – he asked 25 experienced gravel lovers across Great Britain for their favourite local loop. The result is the next best thing to being taken out by the route designers themselves.> Buy … Read more
Kids at a school in Wigan that has its own BMX track last week received an early Christmas present as the local council made a gift of new bikes to replace ones that had been stolen.St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School was given five new bikes by Wigan Council, meaning that children there can get back … Read more
Many of our readers in the UK will have set off on their bikes this morning to begin the Rapha Festive 500 and ride 500km between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve – although for cyclists here, there is a perennial game of catch-up with entrants living in earlier time zones and especially those in … Read more
It might be Christmas but we have plenty of cool new cycling stuff to show you this week, including bling bar end plugs and a bell with a hidden Apple AirTag compartment, but we’re going to start with a spin bike/turbo trainer hybrid that we can safely say is unique… Is this the most inventive/bizarre turbo trainer setup … Read more
The owner of a bike shop in Staffordshire has spoken of how he was woken up by smash-and-grab raiders who made off with bikes worth £19,000 when they burgled the premises in the early hours of yesterday morning.Staffordshire Police, who have recovered one of the five bikes that was taken during the burglary, are appealing … Read more
Juice Lubes AAS Juice is a workshop essential that does what it should and is easier to apply than copper paste in cold weather.Despite the slightly puerile name and marketing, Juice Lubes AAS Paste – Aluminium Anti-Seize – is a good product that your bike mechanic will thank you for using when it comes to … Read more
It’s hard to argue against the assertion that Belgium, and in particular Flanders, is home to cycling’s most dedicated, and fervent, fans.Take the almost religious levels of devotion reserved for the country’s last great transcendental star, Tom Boonen, for example.In Belgium, Tommeke wasn’t just one of the most successful classics stars of all time, he … Read more
The mother of two children who were struck by a motorist while travelling with their father in a cargo bike, ‘catapulting’ them into oncoming traffic, has questioned why police did not attend the scene of the “shocking” collision, despite being called.Triumph Okojie was riding an e-cargo bike with his two children, aged five and two, … Read more
Three masked men armed with machetes attacked a cyclist, stealing his bike and phone, and threatened a passer-by earlier this week in the second violent bikejacking incident to occur in Bristol in less than a month.The victim was cycling on a busy riverside path in the St Anne’s area of Bristol, behind the Co-op shop … Read more
