There are concerns that a stretch of new cycle route that goes through Gloucester city centre is at risk of flooding due to a lack of drainage. This route is part of the £40m Gloucester Cycle Spine, which plans to link Bishop’s Cleeve to Stroud via Cheltenham and Gloucester. It aims to “deliver high-quality cycle and pedestrian facilities … Read more
July 2005: Geoff Thomas hauls his bike and his body around the next steep, tortuous hairpin bend. He glances up from his bars, expecting, hoping, desperately wishing to see one of his mates, the riders he’d started this cruel, lung-busting mountain with an hour beforehand. But he can’t see anyone. In fact, he can’t see … Read more
Britain’s rising multidisciplinary star Zoe Bäckstedt has urged her fellow cyclists to “wear a helmet, please” after a training crash on Friday left her with fractures in her hand and wrist – and a cracked and badly scuffed helmet which she claims “saved my life”.21-year-old Bäckstedt, who has long been touted as one of the … Read more
Is the cycling industry doing enough to promote sustainability and prioritise climate action? Most industry representatives believe so, but consumers aren’t so sure, a new report assessing climate action progress within cycling has found.According to the report, published this week by the not-for-profit Shift Cycling Culture group, 62 per cent of industry representatives who took … Read more
It’s Tech of the Week time, coming (almost) live from the Lee Valley Velodrome in London where this weekend some of the best track cyclists in the world will race the London 3 Day, some aboard Colnago’s brand-new track bike — the iconic Italian manufacturer returning to the discipline with a bang and confident it’s the … Read more
It might be hysterical, it might be a flash in the pan; but there is no doubt that Reform UK are currently riding high in the polls, and threatening (or deservedly preparing, depending on who you ask) to form the next UK government if nothing changes in the next four years.As a responsible publication*, we need to … Read more
A 77-year-old French cyclist has been hailed as a “miracle” after he plunged 130 feet down a ravine while cycling home from the supermarket – and managed to survive for three days before being rescued by eating food and drinking wine from his shopping bag.The pensioner’s dramatic fall came last weekend as he was riding … Read more
A mountain biker is suing Specialized for damages after he was injured while riding the brand’s Turbo Levo e-mountain bike, the crash allegedly caused by a motor defect known to the American company.According to a lawsuit filed last week in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, cyclist Steve Ruggiero was riding … Read more
Mark Cavendish has claimed that he would not have been able to achieve what he did in professional cycling – including 35 Tour de France stage wins, a world road race title, and victory at Milan-Sanremo – if the sport had still been plagued by the systemic doping practices of previous eras.Speaking on TalkSport as … Read more
