A second high mountain stage – and one that is very handily placed for Milan’s Malpensa airport for anyone who decides they’ve had enough before the start. This is also our second video preview courtesy of IG Markets, Dan Lloyd, latterly of Garmin Cervelo and these days riding for Team IG Sigma Sport discusses the … Read more
Andrey Amador of Movistar this afternoon won a three-way sprint for the line in Cervinia to win Stage 14 of the 2012 Giro d’Italia from fellow breakaway members Jan Barta of NetApp and Alessandro de Marchi of Androni Giocattoli. On the first high mountain stage of this year’s race, Garmin-Barracuda’s Ryder Hesjedal finished fourth, nearly … Read more
The Louis Garneau Tuscan socks are really thin and they provide good moisture transfer to keep your feet comfortable in warm conditions.They’re made mostly from Meryl Skinlife fabric with nylon and Lycra making up the remainder of the mix. The Skinlife is said to be bacteriostatic. Whassat? It means that rather than killing off bacteria, … Read more
Nottingham will this summer host a three-day cycling festival, E.ON Cycle Live Nottingham, that will begin with a series of circuit races on the evening of Friday 13 July, concluding the following Sunday with the E.ON Great Notts Bike Ride. In between organisers promise “a whole range of cycling based activities with something that will … Read more
Cafe du Cycliste women’s rangeCafe du Cycliste, the French Riviera clothing company that sets out to avoid “the full polyester dogma and the mimicking of pro racing style,” has brought out a women’s range of jerseys. You won’t look like a lycra sausage in one of these, oh no. You might look a bit like … Read more
Sponser Sport Food is a Swiss brand of nutrition products, now available in the UK. Competition Sports Drink is a powder to mix with water, containing mainly carbohydrate to provide energy, plus electrolytes to fight cramp.Sponser’s publicity material claims that this drink differs to other sports drinks because it contains eight different sorts of carb, … Read more
Think of urban cycling on the Continent, and the first city that springs to mind is likely to be Copenhagen or Amsterdam; cities where large proportions of the population use bicycles to undertake everyday journeys, creating a streetscape far removed from Britain’s car choked city centres. But a new 20-minute film from Belgium, Brussels Express, … Read more
Some of those who began this year’s Giro with ambitions of a place towards the top of the GC, or even getting onto the podium, will already have fallen by the wayside, but today is the day when the battle for the maglia rosa begins in earnest, the first in the high mountains, and the … Read more
Mark Cavendish of Team Sky has won the tenth Giro d’Italia stage win of his career in Cervere this afternoon after a hard-fought finish in which the world champion seemed to be boxed in but somehow found space on the barriers to the left to win from Alexander Kristoff of Katusha, with Rabobank’s Mark Renshaw … Read more
Cycle campaigners in Derby are calling on supporters of the city’s proposed Multi Sports Arena, which includes a velodrome, to continue to give their backing to efforts to save it after a council vote on whether the project should go ahead was put back until next week.The future of the £28 million scheme, which will … Read more
