Halfords reported its cycling sales “turned positive” in the most recent financial year, improving its cycling performance to grow sales, a reason for optimism after a challenging few years for the bike industry.As with Shimano for the global cycling market, Halfords can be viewed as a bellwether for the UK cycling market, its fortunes a marker for the … Read more
You might think you’re a past master when it comes to drinking – after all, we’re guessing that you’ve been doing it for a long time – but the Movistar Team has just hooked up with MX3 to tell its professional riders exactly how much fluid they should take on board and which type of … Read more
A driver who hit a cyclist as they cycled along a painted bike lane in Warrington, breaking the rider’s left leg in two places, has been banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work.The victim, a 35-year-old woman, suffered a broken tibia and fibula in the incident which … Read more
The wife of Lidl-Trek pro Jasper Stuyven says she left Paris-Roubaix this weekend “disappointed in this world”, that after bikes, bags and a laptop were stolen from her car as she watched the women’s race on Saturday.Along with a group of friends, Elke Bleyaert rode the Paris-Roubaix Challenge sportive on Saturday, before leaving their bikes and … Read more
The Lake CX239 road cycling shoe is available in a large range of sizes and variable widths and upper materials, which isn’t an option you hear of very often. Specifically, the shoes you see here are roomy, very comfortable and their carbon sole provides a stiff platform to push against in anger.For more options, check … Read more
Forget the Tour de France, it’s usually the one-day Classics where the pro teams and riders pull out all the stops with their latest and most envelope-pushing cycling tech… and that’s great, because often the rides that you and I do look a lot more like the dodgy lanes of Paris–Roubaix than the perfectly smooth tarmac the … Read more
