The cycling community in Northern Ireland will come together in a fortnight’s time for an event to commemorate Eamon McClean, who died last year at the age 50 and who devoted his life to bringing Catholic and Protestant schoolchildren together through cross-community projects.Eamon’s Get Together on Saturday 13 May will be based at Arvalee School … Read more
Every year there is a flurry of book releases in November, timed to capitalise on the Christmas market. In our cycling world, we benefit from another peak in the middle of the year to coincide with a focus on the Tour de France. This year we are in for yet another peak, as publishers look … Read more
A teenage rider who let out hundreds of youths onto a Philadelphia highway this week in footage that went viral on social media, has been dressed down on TV for his stunt.Corey “Oneway” Murray, a 16-year-old high school sophomore from South Philadelphia, went onto Fox 29’s “Good Day Philadelphia” to speak about the cycle takeover. … Read more
The promising young American pro cyclist Chad Young has died in hospital, five days after sustaining horrific head and facial injuries in a crash while racing.The 21 year old was riding in the Tour of the Gila, when he was involved in a multi rider crash during a mountain descent in New Mexico.He was airlifted … Read more
Yorkshire-born Lizzie Deignan yesterday won the 2017 Asda Women’s Tour de Yorkshire in startling finish – attacking with 13 km left of the 122.5 kilometre race from Tadcaster to Harrogate and riding away for a solo victory.Forming part of the lead group along with her Boels-Dolmans teammate Anna van der Breggen, she pushed hard to break away … Read more
Arriving just in time for Mike Stead to ride it in the Dirty Reiver 200 last weekend is this Genesis Bikes Datum 10, the British company’s carbon fibre disc-equipped adventure road bike. The Datum has been around for a couple of years, coming out at a time when adventure road bikes were in their infancy. We tested … Read more
After many years of being run by volunteers, the Fred Whitton Challenge has teamed up with Human Race, the UK arm of Tour de France owners, ASO. Launched in 1999, the Saddleback Fred Whitton Challenge is a somewhat infamous (in a good way) 112-mile ride through the Lake District, taking in a good few of … Read more
The arrival of Ofo in Cambridge has given rise to fears about the potential impact on local bike shops. The global bike sharing firm recently made its distinctive yellow bikes available for hire in the city and concern has been expressed about what this might mean for local firms reliant on bike rental for a … Read more
The Ghibli helmet from Salice is available in a range of eight colours so matching your bike or kit certainly shouldn’t be an issue plus it scores well on weight and extras too.The Ghibli weighs 255g for this XS size which covers head circumference of 54cm to 58cm (a larger 58cm to 62cm model is … Read more
Team Sky has confirmed that Gianni Moscon used racially abusive language during an argument with Team FDJ’s Kevin Reza at the Tour of Romandie and says that the Italian will be dealt with internally, but only after the race has finished.Cycling News reports that a confrontation between Moscon and Reza could be seen in the … Read more
