Paul Manning, women’s endurance coach at British Cycling, is one of 12 GB coaches who are set to become the first graduates of the Elite Coaching Apprenticeship Programme at the Ashridge Business School in Hertfordshire.The 37-year-old turned to coaching after helping Great Britain win team pursuit gold at Beijing, four years after he had won … Read more
Chrome make some cycling-specific shoes, including an SPD version of the Kursk which we’ve tested on road.cc. The Riverton is more of a general purpose knocking about kind of a shoe, and it’s nicely made and pretty comfy.The Riverton is a mid-top pump with a full-grain leather upper and baseball-shoe-style rubber sole. You get a … Read more
Credit where credit is due; the arrival of the GreenEdge professional team with both men’s and women’s squads is about as exciting as you can get introducing as it does both a new team which is always good but also what is in effect an Australian national squad with 18 out of the 30 riders … Read more
World cycling’s governing body, the UCI, has revealed that it plans to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the acquittal of former HTC-Highroad rider Alex Rasmussen on charges relating to three missed out-of-competition drugs tests.The 27-year-old, who is contracted to ride for Garmin-Cervéllo next season, was sacked by HTC-Highroad during September’s … Read more
While many in the cycling world and beyond have applauded Mark Cavendish for his winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2011 yesterday evening, the world champion winning as many votes as the other nine sportsmen on the short list put together, he – and cycling – appear to have some way to go before … Read more
For ‘Deluxe’ substitute ‘Commuter’ and you’ll get a better feel for what the Freedom Racine Deluxe is all about. Deluxe it isn’t. It’s not expensive and it’s heavy for a 700x25C tyre, partly (50g or so) because it uses a wire bead. On the other hand, it’s tougher than it looks.That’s due to the three … Read more
In keeping with Velobici’s other gear, the Seamless Couche stands out from the crowd due to its understated looks and heavyweight price tag. Often, form comes at the expense of function, but with the Seamless Couche, Velobici have combined them both.The first question that springs to mind is just what on earth is a couche … Read more
Mark Cavendish has capped a hugely successful 2011 season by tonight being named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He becomes just the third cyclist to win the award after Tom Simpson in 1965 and Sir Chris Hoy in 2008. Junior women’s road world champion Lucy Garner missed out on the Young Sports Personality … Read more
World cycle racing’s governing body the UCI has announced a new rule on the shape, mounting location and capacity of drinking bottles starting 1st January 2013.Julien Carron the UCI’s ‘Coordinateur Technologique’ has told manufacturers in an email seen by BikeBiz that UCI race commissaires will be checking bidons from that date, commenting, “the positioning and … Read more
8pm tonight. We’ll be sitting down for the annual road.cc Christmas nosh up but we’ll have our phones with us, because it’s also the time when the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year kicks off. And the runaway favourite is Mark Cavendish.That’s hardly surprising when you think about the year he’s had. World Champion. … Read more
