The Ridgeback Tour is just about the least expensive entry into the world of cycle touring you can buy. Straight out of the box it comes with mudguards and a rear rack, it’s comfortable for extended adventures, day-to-day rides and commuting, and the kit is generally well chosen. About the only exception is that I’d … Read more
The Litelok Core Plus is designed for securing high-value bikes and e-bikes for longer periods or in high-risk areas. It’s a robust piece of kit that you can wear around your waist, but it’s not as comfortable as I’d hoped, and while it proved quite resistant to the angle grinder in our staged attack, it didn’t … Read more
It’s that time of the year that in the cycling world is all a bit after the Lord Mayor’s show. We’ve had both editions of the Tour de France and all the bike tech goodness that comes in the build-up, now everyone’s looking around wondering what’s next. Thankfully for Tech of the Week the bike … Read more
Middlesbrough’s Linthorpe Road cycle lane – the centre of one of the UK’s longest-running and most controversial cycling infrastructure sagas of recent years – is finally set to meet its end in a few weeks, with work to rip out the much-derided protected lane scheduled to begin on 26 August.The contentious, “hated” cycle lane’s impending … Read more
We may earn affiliate commission from some of the links on this pageBoth Tour de Frances are over, which gives us even more time to get out riding again! Not that we weren’t doing a lot of that around watching the races, as our busy reviewers cracked through plenty of bikes, kit and tech during a … Read more
London–Edinburgh–London is ridiculously tough at the best of times, but this year Storm Floris ensured that Ian McBride was the only entrant to complete the full route, and this is the Trek Madone he rode it on, complete with rim brakes and mechanical shifting.For the uninitiated, London–Edinburgh–London is a randonnée from the English capital (this … Read more
As one of the top bike manufacturers in the world, you’ve likely heard of Cube Bikes already… but, did you know Cube has only been established in the UK since 2006, or that its top-end Litening C:68X SLX costs considerably less than pro-level bikes from most rival brands? To find out what Cube’s increasingly hyped road … Read more
The death of a teenage cyclist, who was killed instantly when a HGV driver turned left in front of her, was caused by “vehicle-centric” traffic management at roadworks, a coroner’s report in New Zealand has found.Fyfa Dawson was cycling through a 30kph traffic management site on Springs Road, Prebbleton, 10km southwest of Christchurch, during construction … Read more
A road safety campaign urging motorists to “share the road” with cyclists, give people on bikes 1.5m space when overtaking, and acquaint themselves with the Highway Code has been met with a decidedly mixed reaction from locals.Some drivers in Hull have even used the council’s campaign to criticise cyclists for “wobbling all over the place”, … Read more
The dog walker accused of pushing a female cyclist into a canal has denied the allegations, instead claiming that the woman “clipped me with her handlebars” and fell after approaching him “at a ridiculous speed” and putting his pregnant wife and dog “in danger”.Footage of the incident, which took place on a narrow towpath in … Read more
