A German outfit called Vorvaertz has made a fascinating track frame using carbon tubes and intricate stainless steel lugs made by the 3D ‘printing’ technique.Most recently road.cc featured the Bristol Aerospace Innovation Centre who demonstrated the modern engineering method of building parts layer-by-layer – in effect 3D printing – by making an all-nylon bicycle claimed … Read more
London cyclists are 78 times more likely to die if they are involved in a collision with a lorry compared to one with a car. That’s one of the key findings of analysis conducted by The Daily Telegraph into Transport for London (TfL) data regarding cyclist casualties in the capital in the 12 months to … Read more
Team Sky have this morning confirmed their full 28-man roster for the coming season in which they will be looking to build on a successful 2011 which saw them finish second in the UCI WorldTour Ranking.The headline signing is, of course, world champion Mark Cavendish, who is joined by three former HTC-Highroad colleagues in making … Read more
In a world of smartphones and ever-cheaper GPS units, Polar’s CS100 is old technology: it determines your speed by a wheel magnet rather than satellites, and the only way it will transmit data is into your brain, one toggled screen at a time. These days, when you’re spending £90, that feels weird. On the other … Read more
Castelli’s Risvolto Winter Cap provides enough warmth for most winter conditions and comes with a stowable flap to cover your ears and the back of your head.You can just about wear it under a helmet but you’re making life hard for yourself there because it’s not especially low profile. No, this is a hat that’s … Read more
World cycling’s governing body, the UCI, has revealed that seven cyclists from South America have been provisionally suspended after returning positive A samples following doping controls at a number of races in recent months.Samples taken from Brazilian riders Tiago Damasceno (São Francisco Saúde-Ribeirão Preto) and Flavio Reblin (Grce Memorial-Pref. de Santos-Giant) at last July’s Tour … Read more
Motorists are adopting a devil-may-care attitude towards illegally using their mobile phones at the wheel, with the number of drivers fined for doing so rising by a third over the past year to more than 171,000. What’s more, when the figures are viewed against research into motorists’ self-reported use of mobiles while driving, it’s clear … Read more
Twelve months have passed since we last peered in to the future aided by our picture of a crystal ball. Time to draw back the veil and do it all again to bring you our cycling trends & predictions for 2012. Twelve in number are my predictions for the cycling year ahead. The year in … Read more
Two-part moulded Road Rash Guards snap onto the cycling kit covering your vulnerable hips, elbows and shoulders for those nasty slidy bike crashes.Dr Rob Weiss is what the Americans call a Physician but to us here in the UK he’s a GP; either way as a cyclist he gets to see wincing and wounded riders … Read more
The owner of an emergency response service in South Africa has said that the driver of a police van involved in a collision yesterday that killed two cyclists riding a tandem is guilty of “absolute negligence.”The fatal incident took place at around 9.45am yesterday morning on the R550 road near Eikenhof, on the outskirts of … Read more
