When an email landed informing us that a HoverBike will be launching soon on Kickstarter, we got all excited here at road.cc. A bike, that hovers, and which you can buy? We’re in.Except having seen it, we’re out … proving the old maxim that, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.Coming from … Read more
The Vitus Zenium SL Disc is an aluminium road bike with a carbon-fibre fork, Shimano 105 groupset and hydraulic disc brakes. At £1,249.99, it looks exceptional value for money.Of the road bikes that we’ve reviewed recently, the closest in price to the Vitus is the Forme Longcliffe 0 at £1,150. That’s an aluminium framed road bike … Read more
We don’t know about you lot, but most of us here at road.cc are itching to get out on our bikes under the summery sunshine; the DealCatcher included, which is reflected in the deals on offer in today’s round-up!We get things rolling with some actual opportunities to get riding on some of Europe’s most beautiful … Read more
In what the Yorkshire Post wonders might be “the most quintessentially Yorkshire moment ever,” two of the region’s sporting heroes, Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee and his brother Jonathan, rescued some spring lambs while on a training ride and put them back in their field.Jonathan – who took bronze behind his brother at London 2012 … Read more
The 2Toms Stink Free Shoe and Gear Spray is designed to neutralise rather than simply mask those nasty niffs that can render kit socially unacceptable. Given that most decent riding attire is either impregnated with anti-bacterials or can be machine washed, Stink Free’s appeal is limited, but I have found it surprisingly useful for purging … Read more
Triple ring chainsets have fallen out of fashion in recent years, but are they threatened with extinction?Modern road bikes can come with any one of a number of different types of chainset fitted as standard – there’s standard, compact and semi-compact chainsets for starters. But just because your bike came fitted with a certain type … Read more
Reading Borough Council is hoping to encourage people to ditch their cars for all or some of their journeys via a new scheme that will offer rewards for cycling. BikeSmart Reading will see participants earn free entry to a monthly prize draw for every cycle journey they make of one mile or more.Get Reading reports … Read more
Paris-Roubaix, the race nicknamed the Hell of the North, is held by many pros to be the hardest one-day race on the calendar – and this slow-motion video from organisers ASO shows the pounding their bodies take as they pedal over the pavé.Given your average professional cyclist doesn’t have a spare ounce of fat on … Read more
German lightweight component specialist company Tune has developed a disc brake cover that it says solves the ongoing debate about the safety of disc brakes in the professional peloton. It has made a cover that fits easily to most disc-equipped bikes. It’s designed specifically for 160mm rotors, expected to be the standard adopted by the peloton, … Read more
Gloucestershire Live has reported an allegation that a man on a bike pooed in his own hands and threw it at the windscreen of a driver who beeped at him.The claim, made anonymously on the Spotted Gloucester Facebook page, reads: “To the man who poo’d in his hands and lobbed it at my windscreen because … Read more
