Bulging pockets are the sign of a well-prepared roadie, but there are alternatives if you don’t fancy overloading your jersey. This Deuter Road One rucksack, for instance, is slim and unobtrusive while managing to carry more than the essentials.Over the course of a week I can ride up to five different bikes, all with differing … Read more
Stephen Park, British Cycling’s performance director, says the organisation has a “real aspiration” to set up a professional women’s road team with a view to tailoring British riders’ race programmes so that they can also compete on the track.“We haven’t got anything firm in place but we have spoken about it,” he told The Daily … Read more
A motorist who seriously injured a cyclist when he knocked him off his bike then failed to return after he said he was going to call an ambulance has been banned from driving for six months.Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard that the victim was forced to “drag himself to safety” after the incident on 11 March … Read more
Canyon launched its flat bar Roadlite range a couple of years ago but it has refreshed the bikes for 2018, and we reckon there’s a lot going for them if you want the performance and speed of a road bike but are put off by drop handlebars.The Roadlite falls under Canyon’s ‘fitness’ category and is … Read more
Quietly nestled away on Sram’s stand at the Cycle Show over the weekend, a brand new prototype of the 2018 Definition from prestigious British bike designers Mason Cycles made its first public appearance. Mason Definition reviewAs founder Dom Mason explains, although the Definition is an all-season bike potential customers were demanding a sportier geometry for performance riding, which the new … Read more
Now here’s a man who knows how to make the best of things. The immaculately-named John Hoopingarner, from Ohio, entered last weekend’s Velo Birmingham thinking it was an event in Alabama. After realising his mistake, he booked a flight and rode it anyway.He explained his reasoning to the BBC thus: “Well I made it this … Read more
Saboteurs spreading tacks and oil on the route of Sunday’s inaugural Velo Birmingham closed road sportive failed to dent the enjoyment of the 15,000 cyclists taking part in the event or the enthusiasm of the crowds of locals who turned out in force to cheer them on.The event was re-routed several times in recent months … Read more
An inquest has heard that an Essex cyclist lost his life after being hit by two vehicles on September 16. A 71-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic collision and has since been released by police under investigation.Gazette News … Read more
The Argent Tubeless wheelset from American Classic is a tubeless-ready road offering at a decent weight and with potentially some very minor aerodynamic benefit over stock wheels. The hubs and rims are of good quality and should last well. They’re in an increasingly competitive market, though, and the price looks pretty steep against some competitors.I’ve … Read more
On her first cycle commute into work after maternity leave in 2009, Tamara von Werthern was riding through Notting Hill Gate when she passed the site where cyclist Eilidh Cairns had lost her life a week earlier.The impression the roadside memorial to Eilidh left on the playwright would lead to her writing The White Bike, … Read more
