It’s not often that you can call on four professional cyclists, including a three-time world champion, to act as your own personal mechanics.But that’s exactly what happened yesterday to Scottish cyclist Willie McColl, after he ran out of spare inner tubes while riding in Gran Canaria. McColl, who is currently on a cycling holiday on … Read more
Dido Harding has been filmed sprinting up Whitehall on a Boris Bike* as a protester tried to quiz her over the £37 billion track and trace spend, with the Tory peer putting in a performance worthy of former Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton as she sped away from traffic lights.Harding, a life peer since 2014 and … Read more
The Department for Transport has announced the launch of a £500,000 publicity campaign to raise awareness of the impending revisions to the Highway Code – three days before they are due to come into effect.The communications drive, which will be operated by the government’s long-standing road safety campaign Think!, aims to raise awareness of the … Read more
The Vel Handlebar Pack 7L is easy to attach, remains stable, and is impressively waterproof. Its size means it is versatile enough to be used for anything from far flung journeys to just carrying stuff on your commute, or for day rides.Handlebar packs come in a range of sizes, some large enough to carry all … Read more
The Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps announced in an interview yesterday that he intends to introduce harsher penalties for people on bikes who kill or injure others through “dangerous cycling” – three years after an independent report commissioned by the Department for Transport recommended the introduction of such an offence.Cycling UK, however, has … Read more
This custom painted Cervélo R3 (size 54) frame has been painted by endurance cyclist Chris Hall of Zero Lemon with some friends and and finished by Gun Control Custom Paint to provide a clean and professional finish to the bike, and now it’s being raffled off to raise money for two charities: The Pace Centre and … Read more
If you’re looking for a camera to capture your cycling fun then the Insta360 GO 2 has some things that make it easy to recommend, and some things that make it a bit of a pain. Here are the pros and cons. I’m looking at the GO 2 specifically for cycling, based on my experiences of … Read more
Renpho’s Ai Smart Bike is a functional, sub-£700 option that you can hook up to the training platform of your choice, and it’ll do gradient changes and ERG training. It also comes with its own free-to-use environment that has some positives. The accuracy and the user experience can’t match more expensive smart bikes, though, and … Read more
Aethos is Specialized’s lightest road bike range and this Comp model, built up with SRAM’s Rival eTap AXS, is the most affordable option in the lineup, priced at £5,000.You can hardly have missed the Aethos when it was launched a little over a year ago. Specialized boasted that the top-level S-Works version was “the lightest disc … Read more
