Team Sky blew the Tour de France peloton apart on the first of three summit finishes of the 99th edition of the race today, Chris Froome winning the stage and taking the polka dot jersey, with Bradley Wiggins finishing third, two seconds behind, to move into the maillot jaune. Only defending champion Cadel Evans of … Read more
Here’s the Cervélo S5 VWD that belongs to Garmin-Sharp’s Dave Zabriskie, and a very interesting bike it is too.We rode an S5 at last year’s Eurobike and had a lot of time aboard one at the launch of Cervélo’s P5 time trial bike earlier in the year. It’s an aero road bike that has to … Read more
The Open University has created a series of four films with Graeme Obree, Chris Boardman, Enve’s Simon Smart and Francesco Moser that investigate how science and technology have transformed the sport of cycling.The eight-minute films, produced by Cyclevox, are named The Science Behind The Bike, and we’ve embedded them below for your viewing pleasure.Find out … Read more
Back in April this year, we reported how all the London Mayoral candidates had backed the London Cycling Campaign’s Go Dutch initiative, but it’s taken a little extra pressure from the LCC and British Cycling to convince Boris to keep his promises and get behind the motion.In a letter to the two groups, Mr Johnson … Read more
We really enjoyed the Giro d’Italia video previews of key stages put together by IG Markets Cycling, so it’s great news that they are doing them again for the Tour. First up, Team IG-Sigma Sport’s Daniel Lloyd undertake a recce of tomorrow’s stage, the first climbing stage of this year’s Tour.Stage 7 is one of … Read more
Peter Sagan of Liquigas-Cannondale has taken his third stage victory in his first ever Tour de France, preventing André Greipel of Lotto-Belisol from becoming the first man since 1999 to win three stages of the race in a row as he passed the German just shy of the line, with Orica-GreenEdge’s Matt Goss third. Today’s … Read more
Details are starting to trickle in about the bikes that you’ll be able to see if you head down to the free Surrey Hills Road Race Festival over the Olympic road race weekend.The Expo features some of cycling’s biggest names. The latest models from brands like Trek, Colnago, Cannondale, Canyon Merida, Wilier and Whyte will … Read more
Onza is a Swiss brand producing tyres mainly for commuters, BMX and mountain bikes, plus a few road options, including this Lavin folding clincher. Although billed on the Onza website as a ‘Fixie tyre’, the packaging indicates it’s a ‘Road/Fixie tyre’, and a test pair fitted to a (geared) training bike turned out to be … Read more
Two cyclists from Hampshire who set out last weekend to break the tandem record from Land’s End to John O’Groats may have missed out on that goal after illness struck one of them on the first day of the journey, but they are tought to be the only people to have finished the journey after … Read more
Component brand SRAM has launched a new urban/trekking groupset called Via GT. It comes with super-wide gear ratios from a double chainset and 10-speed cassette.The chainset comes with either 48/32-tooth or 48/34T chainrings and SRAM say the groupset is optimized (everything is ‘optimized’ these days) for a 11-36 cassette. If you work in gear inches, … Read more
