The 2012 UCI WorldTour season may only be a week old, but there are already signs that the rivalry between new team GreenEdge and Team Sky could develop into cycling’s equivalent of The Ashes, with the Australian outfit’s sports director Matt White hitting back at criticism of his riders’ fitness made by his counterpart at … Read more
Lightweight, aerodynamic, reliable and fast, these Enve 45 clinchers with Swiss DT 240 hubs are fantastic all-rounders. The UK distributor has just reduced the price on them too, so it’s well worth taking a look if you’re in the market for some high-end wheels.Enve, which used to be called Edge Composites, design and manufacture in … Read more
Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton has completed a 500-mile journey to the South Pole in aid of Sport Relief that saw her employ three different modes of transport, a kite ski, cross-country skis and an ice bike – the first time a bicycle has been used in an attempt to reach the pole, according to … Read more
German locks, helmets ‘n’ bags makers Abus were showing off their 2012 wares at the Zyro ‘Open House’ in Yorkshire last week. With their locks that are more secure while easier to use and helmets that try not to look like helmets they’re clearly trying to think outside the box. In this case a box … Read more
If you’re looking for full mudguards that you can slip on and off at will then the SKS Raceblade Long is about as good an option as you’ve got right now. They’re not perfect but they’re certainly a class above most clip-on ‘guards.We were pretty excited about these mudguards when we first saw them at … Read more
A 19-year-old French amateur cyclist has been banned for three years after testing positive for no fewer than a dozen prohibited substances, thought to be a record number in an individual case.The cocktail of drugs was discovered in a urine sample given by Alexandre Dougnier, a third category rider with the Parisian club AC Boulogne-Billancourt, … Read more
An article on the BBC website has sought to determine whether city roads choked with traffic are more dangerous than those in the country. The article, by Michael Blastland in the BBC’s Go Figure series, employs statistics to try and find an answer to the question, using the roads of London and Northumberland to as … Read more
Rapha continue to expand on their capsule women’s range of products with the addition this season of a fully waterproof jacket. True to form, it’s really not cheap, but it also displays all the attention to detail, high quality construction and innovative design that Rapha have become known for.Intended to be a lightweight rain shell … Read more
Simon Gerrans has today joined GreenEdge team mate Stuart O’Grady and Lotto-Belisol’s André Greipel in winning the overall title in the Santos Tour Down Under. Greipel himself won today’s 90-kilometre street circuit race in Adelaide, while Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde, who had started the day on the same time overall as Gerrans, was unable to pick … Read more
Xentis, makers of carbon road and mountain bike wheels in both spoked and full-monocoque forms have launched into UK bike shops with more or less immediate effect. The brand is already established particularly with triathletes in Germany and it won’t come as any surprise that the national road and track squads of Austria, the country … Read more
