ITV4 will next month broadcast every minute of all eight stages of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain, the first time the race has ever received full coverage.Matt Barbet and former pro Yanto Barker will be returning to present the up to six hours of live coverage each day, with a highlights programme following in … Read more
Two young cyclists from Sussex will next week attempt to ‘Everest’ Ditchling Beacon by riding up and down the South Downs hill until they have climbed the equivalent height of the world’s tallest mountain.Lukas Nerurkar, aged 13, from Hangleton and Tom Pughe-Morgan, 14 and from Plumpton Green will have to ride more than 60 times … Read more
Wahoo Fitness has released a firmware and companion app update that offers the ability to import structured workout programs from either TrainingPeaks or Today’s Plan to its Elemnt and Elemnt Bolt cycling computers. The Planned Workouts update allows the automatic wireless sync of up to a week’s worth of workouts to your computer. It’ll then guide … Read more
The latest footage from the Col Collective sees a first visit to Switzerland, where Mike Cotty scales the Col du Sanetsch. The video is dedicated to Mike Hall, the British ultracyclist who was killed while participating in the Indian-Pacific Wheel Race earlier this year.Cotty is joined by local expert Alain Rumpf from the Grand Tours … Read more
A London cyclist has been cleared of the manslaughter of pedestrian Kim Briggs, who died from injuries sustained when the pair collided as she crossed Old Street in February last year.However, a jury at the Old Bailey found Charlie Alliston guilty of a separate charge of causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving.The maximum sentence is two … Read more
Feed Zone Portables is an excellent cookery book – though that’s only half the story. As well as a wide range of recipes for fuelling your riding, it also has lots of useful information about nutrition for cyclists.Anyone who’s been around the pro peloton at the start of a race will know that it’s not … Read more
Marcin Bialoblocki has been disqualified from a 25-mile time trial after setting what would have been a new record for the distance. The Polish rider finished Sunday’s Realteam.co.uk event in South Wales in 43 minutes – 1m04s quicker than his own record set last September – but he has apparently been disqualified for riding down … Read more
The variable pulses are ‘designed for maximum visibility to other road users’ and the Vibe Pro HL headlight actually senses ambient light, pulsing in the daytime and remaining steady at night. The headlight gives out 200 lumens at its most powerful, with a run time of two hours on night mode. In day mode, it runs for six hours. … Read more
Bike riders wanting to use a proposed cycling and walking bridge across the River Thames between Battersea and Fulham would have to take their bikes up and down stairs or use a lift to access the deck level because of lack of space at the landing points, it has emerged.The Diamond Jubilee Bridge, which would … Read more
Strava is encouraging its users to be ‘unfiltered’. It’s doing so with a video that mostly seems to feature stylish young athletes being cool. Even the guy emptying his nose at the end does it with a certain panache. Surely the unfiltered version saw the wind blowing what was expelled onto his shoulder.The campaign encourages … Read more
