‘Bicycle gutters’ installed on a staircase leading to a bridge between platforms at Cambridge railway station as part of its £16.7 million revamp are to be replaced following complaints from cyclists.Cambridge News reports that the channels, which accommodate the width of a tyre enabling cyclists to push their bikes up the staircase without having to … Read more
Manchester City Council is considering launching a cycle hire scheme similar to that of London as part of a range of measures aimed at turning it into England’s top cycling city with more people riding bikes there than anywhere else in the country by 2017.It’s an ambitious plan, but one that has been drawn up … Read more
Fears that a gang of professional bike thieves are operating in the Bristol area were confirmed last night when a number of bikes were stolen from the home CNP Orbea rider and road.cc tester John Whittington in the Redland area of Bristol.Some time between 9pm and 6am thieves broke in to the occupied house in … Read more
Now, I’m a roadie through and through – I like speed, I’ve never ridden anything with tyres wider than 25mm and certainly never used a rack so when I arrived at road.cc to collect the Kinesis Decade Tripster I wasn’t quite sure what I’d let myself in for. It turns out though that the last … Read more
Residents of a street in a village near Glasgow where an eight year old girl was killed in a collision with a bus yesterday have spoken of how their calls for the local authority to introduce traffic calming measures had gone unheeded.Amber Cameron died at the scene of the incident, which took place at 10.55 … Read more
Edvald Boasson Hagen this afternoon won Stage 3 of the Critérium du Dauphiné in an expected sprint finish in La Clayette, beating Omega Pharma-Quick Step’s Gerald Ciolek to the line with Borut Bozic of Astana third. Missing from the finale was John Degonkolb, the young German sprinter who won two stages in last year’s race, … Read more
The Bell Javelin time trial helmet shares some of the DNA of the super-fast Giro Selector. The parent company is the same and the Javelin has that familiar shape: dome-like forehead and short tail. It’s 75% of the price of the Selector, shaving off a cool £60.It’s not just a poor man’s Selector, however, which … Read more
Some 7,000 cyclists including Olympic champion Rebecca Romero and British national champion Lizzie Armitstead, plus Ashes to Ashes actor Dean Andrews and former footballer and cancer survivor Geoff Thomas, took to the streets of Manchester on Monday for the inaugural Daily Mirror Great Manchester Cycle.Participants in the sold-out event, which featured routes of 13, 26 … Read more
A group of young artists in Slovenia have breathed new life into 20 old bicycles by transforming them into unique works of art that can still do what they were designed to do – get ridden by people.The artists, who belong to the Multpraktik Collective, took ten days to complete the project which had been … Read more
The Vulpine Merino Button Jersey is soft and comfy with good cycle-specific features, although it’s subtle enough not to look too out of place off the bike.It’s 100% wool – fine, medium-weight, non-itchy merino. Even a few washes down the line, it feels good without any prickliness at all, and flat-lock stitching throughout adds to … Read more
