Fancy some art photography with your Tour de France? Vélo: Tour de France unrealities is an exhibition of cycling images by photographer Andrew Smith that starts Saturday the 30th of June at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield.On his blog, Bank Street artist in residence Andrew Conway describes Smith’s images as capturing the “shimmering, spectral beauty … Read more
There’s only three weeks to go till the 19th Liverpool-Chester-Liverpool Bike Ride, so if you’re in that neck of the woods have a look at this mass-participation family friendly set of rides.There are three 25-mile routes, perfect for beginners or younger enthusiasts, and 50 and 100-mile routes too. The event is expected to attract 3,000 … Read more
The Shelter Frame Protection Tape Kit is light years ahead of those awful clear/carbon effect sticker sets that lifted on the first wash. Shelling out £27 for eight pre-cut sections seems exorbitant though.Then again, set against the cost of refinishing a frameset, this bundle of assorted bike plasters seem very reasonable. Methodical, unhurried preparation and … Read more
Strategic Lions have finished third in the eight-man category in the Race Across America, completing the coast-to-coast race in a time of 5 days 13 hours and 25 minutes. The Yorkshire-based team had gone into the race with hopes of beating the record they missed out on by 11 minutes last year, but headwinds all … Read more
Tourism bosses in Yorkshire are confident that this weekend’s national road race championships, based in Ampleforth, will provide a boost to their hopes of staging the Grand Départ of the 2016 Tour de France as they prepare to head to Belgium next weekend for the start of this year’s 99th edition of the race. Ahead … Read more
You can see from the YouTube exchange below that things got rather heated at Mayor’s Question Time the other day. The reason I care about how and why two cyclists died at Bow Roundabout is because I simply don’t want the same mistakes to be made again. In the five years from 2005 to 2010, … Read more
World champion Mark Cavendish has said that the UK should introduce laws similar to those in the Netherlands and Belgium that place a presumption of liability on motorists involved in a road traffic incident in which a cyclist is killed or injured. Road Safety Minister Mike Penning has responded by saying that such legislation would … Read more
Casualty statistics released yesterday by Transport Scotland show that the country’s roads are getting safer for everyone – except cyclists, leading the country’s Transport Minister to say that more action was needed to make conditions safer for bike riders. Total casualties as well as fatalities among car users, pedestrians and motorcyclists all fell during 2011, … Read more
The Times won an award for its cycle safety campaign, Cities Fit For Cycling, last night at the Online Media Awards.Cities Fit for Cycling won the category for best use of crowd sourcing/citizen journalism. The judges were particularly impressed at how the paper had generated “ lots of reader stories and details and insights”.Ben Whitelaw, … Read more
Polaris PDT socks come as a trio of sport specific socks; designed with plenty of cushioning and breathability in mind. Not specific to cycling but also for running, are they capable as a jack of all trades or would you be better off just getting some cycling socks?The pack consists of three different pairs of … Read more
