Canyon have taken over the DealCatcher once again to round off the week, and once again the deals are spectacular.If six 2017 model bikes aren’t enough to wet your appetite, check out the Garmin Edge 1000, Uvex helmet, Morgan Blue race oil and Reynolds wheels.There’s bound to be something here that’ll get your gears turning! 9% … Read more
Mark Cavendish has said he is “gutted” to be missing next week’s UCI Road World Championships in Bergen, Norway as he continues his recovery from the broken shoulder he sustained at the Tour de France in July.The Dimension Data rider returned to racing at the Tour of Britain last week, but abandoned during the final … Read more
Greater Manchester Police has come in for criticism after its Twitter account for the Denton/Droylsden area said that it would be challenging and fining cyclists who did not follow ‘good practice’. The statement was accompanied by a picture apparently recommending that cyclists make extensive use of reflective materials, including on seat stays and forks. Whoever … Read more
Easy to use with a compact size that takes up little space on your stem or handlebars, and a 12-month battery life, the Wahoo Elemnt Mini is a good choice for cyclists that don’t need advanced data and just want to know how far and fast they’ve been. Syncing with a smartphone provides detailed route … Read more
Eurobike’s full of exciting and expensive things. One such thing was the Tacx Magnum, which at the salty price of £7,000 is surely the world’s most expensive indoor trainer. You could buy a car, etc and so on.Anyway, we got Hilko Schravenhoff from Tacx to start us off on the Magnum. If you’ve ever been on rollers, it’s … Read more
UCI president Brian Cookson says that his predecessor, Pat McQuaid, is “actively lobbying” against him ahead of next week’s election. McQuaid is not standing, but is said to have emailed delegates urging them to support Cookson’s French rival, David Lappartient.The BBC reports that McQuaid has emailed at least one delegate to say that “cycling stakeholders; … Read more
A cyclist riding through woods in Alaska sure got a big surprise after rounding a bend to discover a bear sitting on the trail … so much so that he fell off his bike.The rider posted footage of the incident, which happened near Anchorage, to Reddit under the title, “There are better places to sit, … Read more
Half of those who report a bike theft to police feel that it is not investigated. The finding comes as part of the 2017 National Cycle Crime Survey, commissioned by Bike Register, the UK’s national cycle database.Half of the 1,386 respondents said they had suffered the theft of a bike with more than 43 per … Read more
Mark Beaumont is in Europe on the final leg of his Artemis World Cycle challenge and is due to arrive in Paris on Monday to beat his target of circumnavigating the world by bike in 80 days.The 34-year-old Scot is a day ahead of schedule, having averaged 240 miles a day since he set off … Read more
The Times has apologised after labelling a graph of deaths and serious injuries suffered by cyclists in the UK as “deaths and serious injuries caused by cyclists in the UK”. The graph accompanied the newspaper’s article about a 73-year-old woman who died following a collision with a cyclist on London’s Oxford Street earlier this week.The … Read more
