Motorex Protex promises to quickly provide a lasting, water-repelling barrier when sprayed on fabrics, without compromising breathability. It works but doesn’t deliver the lasting performance the blurb implies, and is expensive compared with better alternatives.Motorex says this water/oil repellent spray is safe on various fabrics, including leather, textiles and microfibres such as Gore-Tex, and won’t … Read more
London Cycling Campaign (LCC) has launched a petition urging Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and boroughs across the city to take action on lethal junctions across the capital.The petition has been launched following the death earlier this week of Dr Marta Krawiec at the junction of Theobalds Road and Southampton Row as she rode to … Read more
You wait ages for a bike thief to have a crisis of conscience and return a stolen bike to its rightful owner – then two come along at once, on opposite sides of the world, one in India, one in Canada.Meanwhile, closer to home, a man in the Netherlands who collects bikes for a kids’ … Read more
The Nopinz Pro-1 Jersey is a figure-hugging, high-performance design that’s great for summer rides – if you get on with the sleeves. Aero fabrics are used, and if you believe the hype and want all the marginal gains, this is one of the cheapest out there.Made in the UK, the highly stretchy Chrono fabric is … Read more
The UCI has banned German Olympic road cycling coach Patrick Moster until the end of 2021 after he was picked up by a TV microphone last week urging rider Nikias Arndt to “catch the camel drivers” – a reference to cyclists from Algeria and Eritrea – during the men’s time trial at the Tokyo Olympics.> … Read more
Team GB’s Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald rode a near-perfect race at Tokyo 2020 to win the Madison, the first time the event has been held at the Olympics.The British pair, wairing flourescent yellow helmets with a red stripe to make each other easy to pick out in the bunch, won 10 of the 12 sprints … Read more
The Santini Redux Vigor Men’s Wind Jacket is more than just a windproof – it has strategically placed insulation that works very well in low double or single-figure temperatures. The ‘aero-fitted’ cut is slightly odd, though, and it’s only just pocketable if you get too hot.As effective as the windproof fabric and the various methods … Read more
The cyclist killed in a collision involving a lorry on central London’s “infamously hostile” Holborn gyratory system has been named as Dr Marta Krawiec.The 41-year-old had been riding to the clinic in Lavender Hill, Clapham Junction where she worked as a paediatrician.She died at the scene of the crash at the junction of Theobalds Road … Read more
