Quarles recently served as Vice-President of Instagram and joins Strava as CEO in place of Mark Gainey, who will stay on as Chairman of Strava’s board of directors. He’s the second high-profile appointment for Strava from Instagram in the last three months, after Kevin Weil, Instagram’s Head of Product, joined as a board member in February. Strava adds Athlete … Read more
Organisers of the Giro d’Italia have scrapped plans to introduce a competition for the best descender at this year’s 100th edition of the race after the initiative was critcised on social media, with riders, team managers and fans concerned it would lead to unnecessary risks being taken.Details of the competition, which would have been sponsored by … Read more
Developed in Madrid, BLINK! Saddles provide the rider with brake lights, turn signals and position lighting. The inventors claim the turn signals make indicating easier to see for drivers and other cyclists, and safer for the rider themselves as they don’t have to risk losing balance by giving an arm signal when turning.Garmin Varia UT800 automically … Read more
West Midlands Police has provided a glimpse of one of the plain clothes cyclists who have been engaged in its close pass operation. To the consternation of some, the cyclist was not wearing high-visibility clothing with the force emphasising, “it’s about normal people being safe on everyday journeys.”On Friday, the force’s roads policing unit tweeted: … Read more
A few weeks ago I got a text just before bed. Had I seen that Mike Hall’s tracker had stopped moving? This was in the closing stages of the trans-Australia Indian Pacific Wheel Race, where Mike was riding in second position. I went to Twitter to see unconfirmed talk of an accident on the road, but it … Read more
Comfort, it’s one of the biggest criteria pushing the development of modern road bikes, at least when we talk about sportive and endurance road bikes. Bikes like this Giant Defy Advanced 3 are designed to provide a comfortable riding position and cushion you from the roughest roads you might care to cycle along. For £1,549 this … Read more
Round three of our Bike LIVE demo day series takes place at Dalby Forest, Yorkshire on Saturday June 17th and below you’ll find the current list of all the models that’ll be available for you to swing your leg over and take for a spin from the event village. There are more brands and models to … Read more
We first saw the German Bombtrack Hook EXT back in January and, as Dave Arthur said, ‘we liked what we saw’. Having spent a month trying to find a trail it couldn’t handle, I’m stumped. This is simply an awesome bike to take off-road.After our initial intro, Dave got into more detail here. As he … Read more
A senior official at world cycling’s governing body, the UCI, has said that the introduction of a ‘Best Descender’ competition at the Giro d’Italia is an “unacceptable idea” given concerns over the safety of riders.Tom Van Damme, president of the UCI’s road commission – a role fulfilled by Brian Cookson before he became the governing … Read more
Last weekend saw the 10th edition of the Red Hook Criterium in Brooklyn, New York City – and as in previous years, it’s another big crash that has made the headlines.In last year’s race on the site of a former cruise terminal in the New York borough it was a stalled motorbike on the men’s … Read more
