We’re three stages in to the Paris-Nice now, and with an individual time trial, sprint stage and (sort of) summit finish out of the way things are shaping up nicely for Team Sky in the GC, with Bradley Wiggins heading the field after a fine TT and some strong work on stage two.Over in Fantasy … Read more
Transport Minister Norman Baker has revealed details of dozens of projects in England that will benefit from the £15 million funding announced by the Department for Transport last month, including a ‘cycle hub’ at Cambridge railway station that will provide 3,000 cycle parking spaces. In total, 7,500 bike parking spaces will be added at stations, … Read more
If you still don’t think disc brakes are going to be big on road bikes in the next year or so, you might want to take a gander at this.Yup, that’s right. It’s a Colnago C59, a bit like this one that we tested, only with disc brakes front and rear. According to Alessandro Colnago … Read more
With Bradley Wiggins currently looking in great shape and leading Paris-Nice, and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne winner Mark Cavendish lining up in Tirreno-Adriatico which starts tomorrow ahead of trying to fulfil his ambition of winning Milan-San Remo in the rainbow jersey a week on Saturday, Team Sky’s 2012 season is now in full swing.Last year, the team put … Read more
We’ve seen the work of artist James Straffon on here before; last time it was his collage theme based on the less than conventional private life of French cycling legend Jacques Anquetil and we’ve seen him exhibiting with Condor Cycles and at Paul Smith’s boutique. This time he has painted shoes donated by Bradley Wiggins … Read more
Did the latest incarnation of the ‘winningest bike ever’ – the Trek Madone – make an unheralded debut last weekend, piloted to victory in the Strade Bianchi by Fabian Cancellara for Radioshack Nissan Trek? We think it did and judging by the pics on Italian website www.ciclonline this bike is so different that it won’t … Read more
Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde held on by less than half a wheel’s width to survive a late charge from Simon Gerrans of GreenEdge, the man who had narrowly beaten him to the Santos Tour Down Under title in January, to win Stage 3 of Paris-Nice on the Catgeory 3 climb to Le Lac de Vassivière this … Read more
A study of admissions of seriously injured cyclists at a major London hospital has revealed that those involved in a collision with an HGV were more than three times as likely to die as those in an incident involving a car, and provides new insight into the different nature of injuries that collisions with each … Read more
The first flight of Terns are here and we have the flagship, a 30-speed speedster with 28mm slick tyres running 120psi. We aim to find out if a folding bike really can be as ‘high performance’ as they’d have us believe but meanwhile here’s a quick once-over.Small-wheeled bikes and folders in particular have a reputation … Read more
Everybody needs to suffer, to make suffering easier.When you’re pedaling along and your hands are so cold you can’t feel when you’re pulling the brakes on, and you can’t tell when you’ve changed gear, or even change gear. When you think you’re pedaling but it’s only by looking down at the revolving lumpen bricks of … Read more
