As the entry-level light in Lezyne’s Performance range, the Lite Drive 700XL offers enough brightness for riding in the pitch black at a price that is pretty competitive. Pros: Sensibly priced, plenty of lumens, a good range of modes Cons: Fiddly charger port The light has an anodised metal body, with a simple rubber strap … Read more
Adding to the growing list of “Trans” and suchlike ultracycling endurance races is the just announced Silk Road Mountain Race, which as its name suggests travels the iconic and historic Silk Road, or part of it.The Silk Route was operational from roughly around 120 BC and to about the mid 15th Century where trade crossed … Read more
From the same serial inventor that brought us the Bike Mine security system and the loudest bike horn ever made comes thingumy, a useful little mount made mostly out of old inner tubes that is self-proclaimed as “unofficially the world’s most useful bicycle accessory”. World’s loudest bike alarm funding on Kickstarter Hornster – the 178dB bicycle hornIts creator Yannick Read claims he’s “always dreaming … Read more
British Cycling has said that it will permit the use of disc brakes at all levels of competition on the road and at closed circuits from 1 January 2018.The governing body says that the move is in line with its goal to get more people cycling both for sport and leisure, and reflects the way … Read more
The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day feature happened in September last year, with road.cc reader James Muehnickel sharing it with us to highlight the dangerous driving to which he had been subject.It took place on Burnetts Lane in Horton Heath, near Eastleigh, Hampshire, with the lorry belonging to local firm Riva South.The driver performs … Read more
Cycling UK has called for the Government to reallocate funding from its £15bn Road Investment Strategy into fixing local roads after figures from the Department for Transport revealed that nearly 100 cyclists a year are injured by potholes that councils deem too small to fix.On Saturday, we reported on the case of Iain Turnbull who … Read more
The weather has turned, the nights have drawn in, and so lots of cyclists are heading indoors to get their fitness kick. Last week we showed you our office pain cave, from where Dave Atkinson led a Zwift group workout, and we asked to see yours. And you didn’t hold back from sharing.Here are some of … Read more
Rapha has today launched new Insulated clothing for cold winter training and racing, including a long sleeve jacket and a gilet utilising the excellent Polartec Alpha insulation.Polartec might not be a name you are familiar with, but it has been gaining popularity with a small handful of clothing brands thanks to its Alpha insulation material.Alpha … Read more
The Rapha Women’s Core Winter Tights are excellent for cold days on the bike. Designed simply to ‘keep you warm while you train or commute on cold winter roads’, they don’t do anything especially fancy, but they do their job extremely well. Dave Arthur thought the men’s ones were very good too; you can read … Read more
Lawyers acting for Fabian Cancellara have demanded that the publishers of US former professional cyclist Phil Gaimon’s book Draft Animals immediately stop distributing and selling it.According to a report in Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, Cancellara’s manager Armin Meier has also called on Gaimon to issue a public apology over allegations contained in the book that … Read more
