Terra Nova Extremities Tuff Bag Over Mitts might be a mouthful to say but they’re brilliant for tourists, commuters, mountain bikers and anyone else who carries on regardless through the wettest days. Near as damn it 100% waterproof, their textured polyurethane palms pack pancake flat and offer faultless grip in monsoon conditions but pairing them … Read more
Sustainable transport charity Sustrans is teaming up with The Times newspaper, which in February launched its Cities Fit For Cycling campaign, to hold a debate later this month on cycle safety involving the four main candidates in London’s mayoral elections. The debate, involving the Conservative Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Labour’s Ken Livingstone, the Liberal … Read more
An Edinburgh motorist has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving following a road rage incident last November, reported widely at the time including here on road.cc, in which he drove aggressively as he tried to shake a cyclist off the bonnet of his car. The driver of the vehicle involved in the incident, 32-year-old Bernard Anderson, … Read more
Retroshift is a combined braking and shifting system straight outta Portland in Oregon in the U.S of A and touted as an alternative to dragging your expensive mechanical STI/Ergo/DoubleTap levers around dirty, muddy, crash-prone cyclo-cross races, although obviously their use can be extended to be capable on tourers, commuters, expedition bikes, winter bikes, or any … Read more
Great Britain’s men’s team pursuit squad are the new world champions and set a new world record of 3:53:295 to beat defending champions Australia in Melbourne today. Ben Swift came through with a storming last few laps to win the men’s scratch race, but Great Britain finished out of the medals in two of its … Read more
During the past nine months, Mark Cavendish has won two of the biggest prizes available to a sprinter on the road, following up July’s points classification win in the Tour de France with the world road championship in Copenhagen in September – but the 26-year-old has described yesterday, Tuesday 3 April, as the “happiest day … Read more
Cyclists living or working in Birmingham, or those visiting Britain’s second-biggest city, now have an easy way of finding their way around on traffic-free routes with the official launch of the Top Tube Map, which shows the connections between 21 separate routes on a mixture of surfaced and unsurfaced paths, canal towpath, and short on … Read more
In an arena where increasingly the sky seems to be the limit for price the Altura Blitz, a fully waterproof, lightweight, cycling specific jacket for £59.99, has got to be worthy of serious consideration. And it’s purple.The Blitz is a good looking jacket with plenty of nifty features. It’s fairly light, weighing a pretty respectable … Read more
So my pre-race plan was 50% successfulThe plan was: stick with the bunch and don’t crash, and I managed not to crash. I got dropped on the 2nd lap on one of the short climbs, up until that point I was out of my comfort zone but keeping with the bunch, staying in a solid … Read more
A 29-year-old London man has been jailed for two years for selling stolen bicycles online, with an accomplice handed a 52-week jail sentence suspended for two years, following an extensive investigation by Metropolitan Police units funded by, and operated in partnership with, Transport for London (TfL).Stephen Amewode, who had admitted making £11,000 from the sale … Read more
