Despite its rather misleading, tabloid-style title, the Panorama episode ‘Road Rage: Cars v Bikes’ – set to air on BBC One tonight and currently available on the iPlayer – offers a much more balanced and nuanced portrayal of life on Britain’s roads than most previous takes on the subject (notwithstanding the appearance of controversial journalist … Read more
Silca Ultimate Tubeless Sealant Replenisher is designed to prolong the life of the tubeless sealant of the same name, but it’ll also work on its own to get you out of trouble. If you’re using the Silca sealant then this Replenisher makes the initial cost more appealing as the months pass by. As a sealant on … Read more
Just about every new high-end bike wheelset to hit the market these days is made of carbon fibre, with the wonder material now being used not only in the rims, but for hubs and spokes as well. These new wheels from Dart, however, rely on a completely different, all-natural, composite known as BioFiber, promising environmental benefits and “F1 grade” … Read more
Today’s Near Miss of the Day features the kind of standard, run-of-the-mill ‘Must Get In Front’ overtake – where an impatient driver just has to pass the person on the bike, despite being mere yards away from a swiftly approaching junction – experienced by cyclists up and down the country.However, when this particular motorist was … Read more
Panorama – Road Rage: Cars v Bikes is a curious title for a TV programme that if anything showed just how vulnerable people riding bikes are with motorists who overtake them too closely; or failed to see them altogether, as in one case highlighted in the episode that we reported on at the time, with a driver … Read more
Some of you might have spotted in the Beeb’s TV listings recently that a Panorama episode titled ‘Road Rage: Cars v Bikes’ has been floating about on iPlayer for a week or so now. It was supposed to be broadcast sooner then some minor political things happened, but we can now reveal that road.cc, along … Read more
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised the environmental activist group Letzte Generation after its members were blamed for causing a traffic jam which prevented an emergency services vehicle from reaching a critically injured cyclist in Berlin.On Monday, protesters from Letzte Generation, or ‘Last Generation’, glued themselves to the road at a busy junction in the … Read more
The Power2Max NGeco is one of the best power meters on the market for a bike that is going to see a lot of dirty miles. It boasts accurate data, top-notch reliability and a design that is bombproof. Compared to a single-sided unit, however, it is a bit weighty, and the price is higher than … Read more
Aerodynamics might rule on the flat but superlight bikes kick ass on the climbs and here are some of the most interesting that we spotted at last weekend’s National Hill Climb Championships on the Old Shoe climb out of Llangollen, North Wales.As well as selecting their equipment carefully, riders frequently modify components to shave off … Read more
