A resident of Aspen, Colorado, lodged a complaint with police about the filming of a mountain bike race between Lance Armstrong and his former US Postal Service team-mate George Hincapie, prompting officers to launch an investigation.On the same day the Tour de France was concluding in Paris, the pair raced each other on the route of … Read more
Welcome to Tuesday’s live blog, with Jack Sexty, Simon MacMichael and the rest of the team.
Today’s videos in our Near Miss of the Day series show one of the potential flaws with protected cycle infrastructure – motorists turning across them to access side roads and in doing so putting cyclists using the bike lane in danger.The video above was filmed on London’s Cycle Superhighway 2, one of the original blue-painted, … Read more
A cyclist who has completed a 7,000-kilometre ride around the British coastline, helping clean up beaches alongside local volunteers, says she retrieved more than 3.4 tonnes of plastic pollution during her journey, which lasted almost three months.Kiko Matthews, aged 38 and a brain tumour survivor, set off from Margate, Kent, on Sunday. 5 May and … Read more
The Miche Supertype 440 RC wheels are a decent weight and offer plenty of stiffness, plus with their gloss finish they’ll certainly add a bit of shiny bling to any bike. Their narrow width and basic brake track makes them feel a little bit old school, though. Pros: Good balance of aerodynamics versus weight; very … Read more
We may be suffering from post-Tour de France blues and there’s also a bit of rain coming our way to compound the misery, but that ain’t quite going to stop us riding! Here’s this week’s pick of the test pile… Rondo Ruut CF2£2,699.99Rondo Ruut CF-1 (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)Described as “the first variable geometry gravel bike in the … Read more
The co-founder of VanMoof, the Netherlands-based firm that says its S2 SmartBike is “unstealable” has rejected a tech website’s claim that it managed to hack one in less than a minute and remove the SIM card that enables the bike’s whereabouts to be tracked via GSM.The e-bike is locked and unlocked via an app, has … Read more
The ashmei Men’s Cycle bib shorts are impressive, with excellent compression, decent water repellency and a very comfortable chamois, and although they’re expensive they are still cheaper than some rivals. Pros: Excellent chamois, water repellency, compression Cons: Expensive ashmei has been making a real name for itself over the past few years and, having tested … Read more
My triceps are killing me. And I’m already mentally hunting through the bottom drawer of my shed cabinet to see if there are any 40cm bars in there, as a 45km/h wind blows white noise in my ears. A day at the Boardman Performance Centre has taught me a great deal. And some of the … Read more
