The motorhome following Mark Beaumont on his Artemis World Cycle challenge in which he is attempting to ride around the world in 80 days was hit from behind by a car driver near Melbourne, Australia today. The Scottish adventurer has confirmed none of his support crew nor the occupants of the car was seriously injured, … Read more
If you have your sights set on a titanium bicycle there’s a high chance Enigma is a brand that has passed through your crosshairs, and earlier this week Richard popped down to the office with a van load of brand new bikes to show us. Here then is a first look at the new Excel Disc, Evoke Disc, … Read more
Honey Stinger Organic Energy Chews are great tasting nutrition boosts that tread the line between an energy bar and a gel. With multiple carbohydrate sources, they optimise the rate at which you can take on sugars, giving you a fast hit, and also provide you with a vitamin C hit for an extra health benefit.Honey … Read more
Team Sky’s Luke Rowe says that he could be sidelined for up to a year after breaking his leg while whitewater rafting during his brother’s stage weekend in the Czech Republic.The 27-year-old broke his tibia and fibula in what he told BBC Wales Sport was a “freak accident” while on the trip with family and … Read more
Roundabouts, pioneered by the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory in the 1960s, are designed to improve traffic flow and minimise the risk of collisions between motor vehicles at junctions. But they can present particular risks to cyclists for a number of reasons including motorists accelerating into the roundabout to make it into a gap, switching lanes suddenly … Read more
In exactly a month’s time, on 9th September, I’ll be somewhere between Land’s End and Okehampton with 799 others, on the first day of the Deloitte Ride Across Britain. I’m hoping we’ll be enjoying a late heatwave, or at least a drywave. And if it’s a southwesterly wind blowing it can be as strong as … Read more
A road.cc reader has donated a rare and famously terrible plastic bicycle to Somerset’s Bakelite Museum, after learning of the theft of the same model last week.By coincidence Dan Bronks, a London-based Director of Photography, had just sent a friend’s Itera bicycle, which had lain in a garden and was “full of spiders”, to be … Read more
You couldn’t make it up, as the old adage goes… but now a brand fronted by Floyd Landis, infamous for his use of very unnatural substances during his pro cycling career, has introduced an all-natural remedy for relieving pain in the form of soft-gel capsules made from hemp oil. Described on the Floyd’s of Leadville website as ‘a former … Read more
Cyclists are asked not to be the “trucks of the towpath” in the latest bid by the Canal and River Trust to improve behaviour on its most popular paths. In a recent user survey, the Trust found nearly a quarter of people (23%) identified cyclists speeding past them in public places as their biggest bugbear. … Read more
Wow! That was genuinely the first thought that came into my head when I set off on Canyon’s Endurace WMN CF 9.0 Di2. I might even have uttered it aloud. Its 7.24kg might not be superlight in this day and age, but it’s still pretty feathery, and the bike is so responsive I thought for … Read more
