A lorry driver who pleaded guilty of causing the death by careless driving of a cyclist who was killed while taking part in a time trial on the A50 in Derbyshire has been banned for two years and given a 24-week jail sentence, suspended for two years. It is the latest in a series of … Read more
The Hell of the North has a fearsome reputation; the thought of attacking sections of pavé at 50 plus kilometres an hour and the risks involved are more than enough to focus any professional. The images of what happens when things go wrong, soft tissue smashing into the hard granite cobble stones, has been well … Read more
Hutchinson make a lot of road tyres, they also make a lot of mountain bike tyres, and squeezed between the two are just a few cyclo-cross tyres with the Toro being one. With its pattern of small, square knobs it looks like a mountain bike tyre but smaller, which comes as no surprise as it’s … Read more
Oxford’s dreaming spires are set to provide a spectacular backdrop to the Halfords Tour Series when it visits the university city for the first time next month. Now entering its fourth year, the city-centre criterium series will also be making its first visit north of the border, with the opening round taking place in Kirkcaldy … Read more
Geraint Thomas, World Champion and new team pursuit world record holder, returned to Wales this week to take on the route of the Etape Cymru.Thomas took on a 30-mile section of the closed-road cyclosportive’s route, including the Panorama and Horseshoe Pass climbs. The 90-mile event, now under new ownership after last year’s inaugural running, will … Read more
road.cc skimmed across the Solent to the Isle of Wight to do a quick cheeky preview ride of the Wight Riviera Sportive that will be rolling out on Sunday 20th May. The Wight Riviera will be the first ever sportive to use a new Avant format where the opening miles are on closed roads before … Read more
Fashion designer and huge cycling fan Sir Paul Smith has opened a pop-up cycling concept store in upmarket Knightsbridge department store, Harrods. The space will be open for the next two months in the store’s fifth floor sports department.The Nottingham-born designer raced as a teen before an injury cut his fledgling career short. Cycling’s loss … Read more
Strava, Facebook, Twitter, Endomondo, Flickr, mapmyride – these days it’s almost impossible for people to go for a ride without turning it into a multi-media event*, to the point where if someone doesn’t upload a picture or tweet it or log the miles it’s as if the ride never happened, because there’s no proof that … Read more
The Supernova Infinity 8 is a superbly engineered dynamo hub with some clever technology.Dynamo hubs just get better and better, and with the increase in power and efficiency of LED light units there’s never been a better time to switch over to hub power and ditch the batteries. The Infinity 8 is built to last … Read more
Le Carrefour de l’Arbre is a cobbled farm track which indirectly links the two villages of Camphin-en-Pevele and Gruson, near Lille in northern France. I imagine on most days it would be deserted, alone and unseen from no more than a few metres across the flat agricultural landscape, especially when the crop is high. You’d … Read more
