The streetscape of large parts of East London will be transformed this week as the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme makes its long awaited expansion into Tower Hamlets, including Canary Wharf, as well as North Shoreditch in Hackney. The scheme will also be expanded to Westfield White City in West London. The operation will see 2,300 … Read more
You may remember our story back in January about Michael J Wallace, the science teacher who pedals round his home city of Baltimore, Maryland tracking his rides by GPS and creating some great artwork on the way under the name WallyGPX. Well, with 2012 in full swing, he’s updated his website with 20 new creations … Read more
Did you know that the Garmin-Barracuda WorldTour pro team is sponsored for tyres and wheels by French company Mavic? Well, you do now.The tyre manufacturers can only be sure of us being interested in the professionals’ tyres for about three weeks in the season and that’s for the various Northern European classic events running up … Read more
The man behind SportivePhoto, the group of photographers who snap cyclists at events all over the country and then sells them the prints and digital downloads, is running his own sportive ride based at Liphook in Hampshire.The new event is called the Southern Spring Sportive on April 1st 2012 and according to SportivePhoto’s founder and … Read more
The Kontact Anatomical race saddle feels precisely how a good saddle should feel and I’ve managed several hundred mixed-terrain miles without a hint of discomfort, and that’s pretty impressive from a perch hovering around 200g.The one amendment I would like to see are scuff bumpers – not that you’d put an 80 quid saddle on … Read more
Bradley Wiggins of Team Sky put in a storming time trial ride in the rain this afternoon to take second place in Stage 1 of Paris-Nice behind Gutsav Larsson of Vacansoleil-DCM, with Levi Leipheimer of Omega Pharma-Quick Step third. Unlike Wiggins, both those riders had set their times on a dry 9.4km course, and among … Read more
Tom Warmerdam, aka the Southampton-based artisan framebuilder Demon Frameworks, has shared the ‘Best road bike’ prize at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show 2012 which is taking place this weekend in Sacramento, California. Rex Cycles, a Sacramento builder, was the other winner.The winning bike, a Demon Frameworks Manhattan, is one of his new signature series … Read more
A company from Milwaukee in the USA has shown a prototype men’s leather shoe at the North American Handbuilt Show (NAHBS) being held in Sacramento, California this weekend. The unusual feature is that they’re classic men’s leather street shoes but with recessed two-hole cycling cleat inserts.We have the excellent cycling campaigning blogger Richard Masoner of … Read more
A semi-pro BMX rider whose bike was stolen in Edinburgh last week was reunited with his bike just three days after it was taken from a stairwell outside his flat after fellow cyclists got together on Facebook to help track it down.Victor Ory, aged 21, a student at Napier University and sponsored rider in his … Read more
This seasons cyclo-cross races may be all done and, if not dusted, then cleaned of sticky mud. But that doesn’t mean the cyclo-cross season is over and you have to put your CX bike back in the shed for 6 months. Most cycle-cross bikes don’t go anywhere near a race course, and it’s not like … Read more
