The British Olympic Association (BOA) has removed the last barrier to cyclist David Millar and sprinter Dwain Chambers being selected to represent Great Britain at this summer’s Olympic Games in London by formally rescinding its lifetime Olympic ban on athletes convicted of a doping offence.The ban was last month ruled invalid and unenforceable by the … Read more
The mother of a five-year-old boy cycling on Weymouth promenade last Saturday has described her shock at being told by one of the local council’s beach enforcement officers that her son would need to get off his bike or face being prosecuted, although a council official has put forward a different version of events.The Dorset … Read more
The SKS bottle cage adapter is perfect if you have a fixie without bottle cages. I think this one will prove a permanent feature on my 1950s Holdsworth which has just had successful bottom bracket surgery and a respray.There’s nothing particularly exotic about its lightweight ABS plastic construction other than to say it’s up to … Read more
Former British national road race champion Kristian House of Rapha Condor Sharp attacked halfway through last night’s Round 2 of the 2012 Halfords Tour Series in Durham and soloed his way to victory on what is considered the toughest course in the 11-race championship. Scott Thwaites, who had won the opening round in Kirckaldy on … Read more
A firm of architects based in Amsterdam has incorporated a rooftop velodrome into the design of a ‘Bike Club’ it has been asked to design by its client on a major resort complex it is working on in China’s southernmost city, Sanya.According to NL Architects, the bowl shaped roof is doubly functional – not only … Read more
Jens Voigt and Chris Horner, it’s fair to say, could tell a good few stories about pro cycling. Both aged 40, the RadioShack-Nissan pair have getting on for four decades’ of top-level racing experience between them. Happily, the thought has occurred to someone at team sponsor Nissan to sit the pair down and get them … Read more
The Fusion Super Wings form part of a wide range of cycling specific eyewear from Catlike. We have been ticking through the reviews since last summer with some Catlikes scoring pretty high. Unfortunately, a peculiar fit and poor eye protection mean the Fusion Super Wing just don’t hit the mark.Not all of us can afford … Read more
Officially a flat stage that takes the race inland from Savona on the coast in Liguria into Piedmont, but it starts with a little over 30 kilometres of mainly steady climbing ahead of the day’s only categorised climb. It’s a rolling profile after that, ahead of a flat and dead straight last 3.5km to the … Read more
Lars Bak of Lotto-Belisol, who twice tried to attack for a solo win when this year’s Giro d’Italia began in his native Denmark, made it third time lucky today in Sestri Levante this afternoon, attacking his fellow members of a break away group some two kilometres from the finish and staying clear by 11 seconds … Read more
There’s still a bit of life in our wet and windy spring yet, so these Full Windsor Quickfix rear mudguards might be a life-saver.Full Windsor is a London-based bicycle accessories design company, named after its founder, Mark Windsor. From the name, you might think they actually make ties, but in fact these are mudguards with … Read more
