The 2019 Tour de France will start in Brussels, organisers ASO have confirmed today, with the Belgian capital hosting the Grand Depart on the 50th anniversary of the year Eddy Merckx took the first of his five overall victories.It will be the second time the race will have started in the city, the last time … Read more
According to a Stanford University robotics researcher, Tesla’s semi-autonomous driving technology displays a frightening inability to recognise cyclists. After testing the feature along with a colleague, Heather Knight recommended that it never be activated when cyclists are around as she believes people would be killed.Knight and Dylan Moore are part of a research group at … Read more
There’s no time left, if you haven’t entered, don’t! Because we’ve just picked the winner!So the lucky winner of the Reilly T325 Titanium Frameset is….. Robert Lawrence! Congratulations, Robert, Reilly will be in touch soon. Boom! Now this is what we call a bike compo, your chance to win a Reilly T325 Titanium frameset – that’s frame, fork … Read more
It’s pretty much customary for general classification leaders to ride specially prepared bikes custom painted to match their jersey, but Tom Dumoulin broke with tradition by riding his standard team bike during his time in the maglia rosa in the Giro d’Italia he won at the weekend, the first Dutchman ever to win the Italian … Read more
Gravel is a Big Thing in cycling right now, with a whole new category of bikes and a growing list of dedicated tyres, accessories and now clothing aimed at those who want to break away from the shackles of the road network. Sportful’s new Giara (Italian for gravel) range is intended to appeal to people … Read more
Among the things you don’t want to meet while descending at speed is a bear. But that’s what happened to Quick Step Floors rider Matteo Trentin over the weekend while training in California.The two-time Tour de France stage winner – who also has a stage of the Giro d’Italia among his palmares – posted a picture … Read more
Cyclists ending up on motorways whether in the UK or abroad is a regular occurrence, as plenty of stories we’ve done here on road.cc show, but here’s a new angle – a woman riding on an autoroute in France was fined by police as she attempted to pay a toll to use the road.The incident … Read more
The Ravemen CR500 front light is a quirky but clever compact torch design that produces a maximum of 500 lumens and has a host of settings. It’s ideally suited to suburban contexts and offers decent run-times between charges. Several small but significant features set it apart from outwardly similar models.> Find your nearest dealer here> Buy this … Read more
A police crackdown on the illegal use of handheld devices while driving saw nearly 6,000 motorists hit with new penalties of a £200 fine and six penalty points on their driving licences – a rate of around 200 people a day.Campaigners saying that drivers are still not deterred from breaking the law.The figures, which cover … Read more
A London cyclist who decided to hang back rather than go up the inside of a tipper truck at a junction near the Surrey Quays shopping centre was told by another rider: “If you’re scared you shouldn’t be on the f*cking road.”Footage of the incident was posted online last Thursday bu YouTube user CBL, who had … Read more
