Labour needs to push its green credentials much further in order to hold its new support among young people in the UK, according to keen cyclist and former Mayoral candidate Christian Wolmar.Writing in LabourList, the politician said: “The key issue is the environment and there was not much about it in the manifesto. There was … Read more
Look out, Simon Warren’s about, which means yet another gruelling series of hill climbs that fill in some of the gaps inevitably left after the publication of the two volumes of ‘100 Greatest Cycling Climbs’. With one or two minor grumbles, ‘Cycling Climbs of Scotland’ is also essential reading for your Scottish cycling holiday – … Read more
Chances are, you paid the ballot box a visit on Friday. You picked your colour – blue, red, yellow, green or maybe purple – but what about these #mycyclingweekend? What colour will you be picking?Of course, we don’t have control over some colours.For every carefully chosen all-pink outfit like Instagram user Clairbearr90’s we see some beautiful green landscapes like … Read more
Flaer’s Revo Via is an automatic chain-lubing system. It works. Unless you’re a pro/elite road racer or a long-distance triathlete, it’s hard to see how you’d be able to justify the £250 outlay given the very minor efficiency gains. As such, it’s pretty difficult to recommend, although it does do what it’s designed to do.In … Read more
A 68-year-old cyclist from Quebec has been suspended for doping. Gerard-Louis Robert, who holds two world records in his age category, will not be permitted to compete until October 11, 2024.La Presse reports that Robert was handed such a long ban because he’d already served a two-year suspension in 2009.The latest positive test came at … Read more
The Daily Record reports on a student from Hackettstown, New Jersey in the United States who stole a bike to get to school on time. The unnamed 16-year-old was charged with theft and given a long list of tips from the police on how he could avoid being late in future.Police responded to a reported … Read more
On June 12, 1817, German inventor Karl Drais tested out his laufmaschine, a wooden bike without pedals that came to be known as a dandy horse. In honour of this event, computer scientists at Saarland University have built an electric version called the Draisine 200.0.The dandy horse basically works like a balance bike and EurekAlert … Read more
Mark Cavendish has potentially been given another opportunity to try and win an Olympic gold medal after the UCI announced that the Madison will again be part of the cycling programme for Tokyo 2020. Cavendish has won four world titles on the road and track but hadn’t won an Olympic medal of any description until … Read more
The tyre company Michelin has developed a bike light that creates a halo of light on the ground around a cyclist, in order to make them more visible to drivers.The company says the light is a visual reminder of how much space to give when passing, although to our eyes, the light falls rather close … Read more
Officers investigating an incident where a cyclist was injured in Waltham Cross are appealing for information and witnesses, as they have little idea what happened.Between 5.30pm and 6pm on Sunday June 4, a woman in her 50s was cycling on the bridge over the River Lea on Highbridge Street, making her way on to the … Read more
