UCI president David Lappartient has confirmed that world cycling’s governing body is working on introducing a gravel world championships.The news follows a meeting earlier this month at the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland, between Lappartient and other UCI staff with Erioca founder Giancarlo Brocci at which the idea of a gravel racing world series … Read more
You might have noticed, but road.cc has changed! We’ve rolled out a new design. For lots of reasons.Why have you changed it?We haven’t redesigned road.cc for about five years, and it was due a revamp. Since then we’ve added a number of other websites to our portfolio, and we wanted to make it easier to … Read more
Got a trail dog? Let us know!It’s Friday again so there’s another chance to win a pair of Triban winter socks from Decathlon.We got sent this brilliant photo from the off.road.cc team who have a pair of trail dog goggles in for testing. So we thought that you could send in pictures of your dogs doing cycling … Read more
London bicycle repair workshop Handlebars, which operates at Monument in the heart of the City and at Shoreditch, is currently running a campaign encouraging cyclists to ensure that their bikes are roadworthy. In this guest blog post, the company explains how they ran a stopping distance experiment to help highlight the risks of cycling with … Read more
It’s Chinese New Year tomorrow as we enter the Year of the Rat – but in Near Miss of the Day land it’s the Year of Dangerous Overtaking at Pinch Points, going by some of the recent submissions we’ve had to our feature.This latest one happened on Glasgow’s Mosspark Boulevard with the driver of the white … Read more
Another year and another boatload of new products have passed through the road.cc office to be reviewed by our experienced team of testers.In this article we’ve picked some of the standout products from all the reviews that scored 9 and above so when you’re in the market for an upgrade you know these products come … Read more
Goodyear’s return to making bicycle tyres, after a 44-year hiatus, has been so successful that the company has launched two brand new tyres, Eagle F1 and Eagle F1 Supersport utilising graphene technology and weighing just 180g for a 23mm model.The company’s previous range-topper was the Eagle All-Season Tubeless road tyre which we found to be … Read more
Michelin’s Power Jet Tubeless Cyclocross Tyres are fast and ideally suited to dry races. Show them a little moisture and they quickly become hard to handle, so not the best for the mixed conditions that a full season of racing brings, though they’d be ideal for a local summer race league.Michelin recently re-released the green … Read more
Welcome to Friday’s live blog, with Jack Sexty, Simon MacMichael and the rest of the team.
