Tom Boonen has capped a towering 2012 Classics season by today winning Paris-Roubaix for a record equalling fourth time, Europcar’s Sebastien Turgot taking second place from BMC Racing’s Alessandro Ballan. Boonen’s victory in this afternoon’s 110th edition of the race will surely go down as his most remarkable.Attacking alongside Omega Pharma-Quick Step team mate Niki … Read more
Sir Chris Hoy today won Great Britain’s sixth gold medal of the 2012 UCI Track World Championships on the final day of competition in Melbourne with two medals, finding a gap as he came off the final bend in fourth position to nip through and sprint to the line to win the gold medal in … Read more
Perhaps it’s the pavé, perhaps it’s the unique demands that it places on bikes and riders alike, but there’s something about Paris-Roubaix that makes for compelling viewing. In the internet age, plenty of teams and others associated with the race put out short films ahead of it, plus it’s also the subject of one of … Read more
The Fenix TK15 is the big brother of the PD31’s I reviewed recently and offers the same standards of construction but with considerably greater oomph.Another general-purpose lamp that doesn’t fall into the jack-of-all-trades, master of none category, 337 lumens is genuinely impressive (albeit not as powerful as some ultra bright bike specific rechargeable systems) but … Read more
BMC today launched their new Gran Fondo GF01 top end road bike, a performance machine designed with long distance comfort in mind… but you probably guessed that from the name. The GF01 comes with a frame geometry that’s designed for comfort, following the shorter and taller route that many other manufacturers have gone down over … Read more
Laura Trott has won Great Britain’s fifth gold medal of the 2012 UCI Track World Championships at the Hisense Arena in Melbourne. Leading the women’s omnium as it went into the final discipline, the 500m time trial, she went on to post the quckest time to claim gold. The country picked up three more medals … Read more
If you’re anywhere near West Sussex on Saturday 26 May, you should get yourself down to the Dark Star Brewery in Partridge Green, where the Kinesis and Morvélo chaps are putting on a day and a night of bike- and beer-themed entertainment. Spin up in a Brewery starts at 3pm and there’s lots to keep … Read more
Tom Boonen’s towering performance at the Tour of Flanders last week has seen him installed as favourite to win Paris-Roubaix for a record-equalling fourth time on Sunday as Classics season, and with it our Fantasy Cycling game, heads across the border from Belgium into France. The Hell of the North, however, generally reckoned to be … Read more
Want to ride all night on a regular basis, or commute all year round? A dynamo means you never have to worry about battery levels, and fitting an E3 Pro will mean you don’t have to worry about not having enough light either. It’s a very well built unit with a great beam pattern that’s … Read more
Victoria Pendleton has today claimed Great Britain’s fourth gold medal of the 2012 UCI World Track Championships at the Hisense Arena in Melbourne after beating Lithuania’s Simona Krupeckaite in the final. That followed an enthralling and incident-packed semi-final between Pendleton and her great rival and home favourite Anna Meares that was perhaps the highlight of … Read more
