Up to 1,000 minicab drivers in Manchester yesterday staged a go-slow protest drive from the Etihad Stadium to Manchester Town Hall to deliver a petition protesting against what they allege are discriminatory rules preventing them from stopping in bus lanes to pick up or drop off passengers, while drivers of Hackney carriages – or black … Read more
British Cycling has officially launched this year’s 2012 National Road Race Championships in Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, with riders from Rapha Condor Sharp, IG Sigma Sport, Team UK Youth and Node 4 – all due to compete in the Halfords Tour Series in Durham this evening – also attending this morning’s formal presentation of the route … Read more
It’s not just the Giro and the Tour of California right now, you know. Last night it was round three of the Bath Cycle Races, which run every Wednesday night in May. Last year four local clubs – Bath CC, VC Walcot, Somer Valley and Avonlea-Treasure RT – organised the four rounds but thi year … Read more
This year’s Brighton Naked Bike Ride will be more of a naked triathlon – albeit in reverse order – as organisers of the event in the South Coast City look to mark the Olympic year by incorporating running and swimming into the programme, taking inspiration from the Ancient Greeks, who competed in sports naked. The … Read more
The first thing you notice about these Etxeondo Feather bib shorts is just how light they are. It’s not often you say that about a pair of shorts, but our medium-sized pair weighed in at just 125g (just over the manufacturer’s claimed 119g). Etxeondo (pronounced et-chay-on-doe) reckon they’re the lightest bib shorts on the market … Read more
Consumer electronics giant Samsung will be the official sponsor of this year’s Bike Week, which takes place from 16-24 June. The South Korea-based company has also unveiled a smartphone app that ties in with its sponsorship of the Olympic Torch Relay under which the company will donate £1 to charity for each user completes a … Read more
A stage that starts and finishes on the coast, and heads along it for the opening 50 kilometres, but after that there are a succession of tough climbs as the race goes into the hills above the Ligurian sea. Inside the final ten kilometres, there’s a fast descent from the day’s last climb, as well … Read more
Roberto Ferrari of Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela, the man whose sudden change of direction led to Mark Cavendish crashing in Stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia in the Danish town of Horsens last week, today outsprinted the world champion to put paid to his hopes of winning in the Tuscan town of Montecatini Terme, close to the … Read more
pOcpac iPac Road Pac combi, pOcpac iPac Road Pac combi… try saying that a few times after a glass or two of sherry.To decipher: pOcpac (henceforth referred to as Pocpac, because that cap-O is just ridiculous) is a company formed by two South African brothers, who were caught out riding in a storm and wondered … Read more
Europcar’s Sebastien Turgot, second in Paris-Roubaix last month, has been branded “an idiot” by team manager Jean-René Bernaudeau after becoming the fourth high-profile French cyclist in less than a year to face charges related to infringement of anti-doping ‘whereabouts’ rules.The 28-year-old, whose runner-up spot to Tom Boonen in the Queen of the Classics was the … Read more
