What do you know about Stevens bikes? Not a great deal, we’re guessing, but the German brand has just got UK distribution through chain/online retailers Hargroves Cycles and we’ve had the chance to try out their Xenon road bike over the past few weeks.Stevens – not a typical German name, that – have been around … Read more
This weekend sees the launch of one of the most eagerly anticipated cycling books for a long time, Graeme Obree’s The Obree Way – a training manual for cyclists. What’s more, the Flying Scotsman will be signing copies in Edinburgh and Glasgow on Saturday and Sunday.From his background as an outsider who designed and built … Read more
Every time I have challenged the Mayor about cycle safety recently, he has lectured me about “your duty as an honest politician to tell people the truth that cycling is actually getting safer, when you consider the number of people on the roads”. I was happy to do so, as I often did when the … Read more
Jenny Jones, London Assembly Member and the Green Party’s candidate in next year’s mayoral elections has today questioned whether cycling is getting safer in London as a result of the current Mayor’s ‘cycling revolution’. Writing in a blog for road.cc, Ms Jones admits her calculations are rough because neither Transport for London or the Mayor … Read more
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has confirmed that it has lodged an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to determine the validity of its lifetime ban from Olympic competition for athletes convicted of a doping offence. It is hoped that a decision can be reached by the end of April, three months … Read more
Unless that nice Brian Cox has led me astray the mighty Moonshield rear LED should really be called the Sun Shield, seeing as the Moon only reflects light, it doesn’t kick it out in great strobing pulses with a disco flash.When I collected the Shield from road.cc HQ I had initial misgivings – I’m wary … Read more
A Wiltshire cyclist has taken his interest in making gifts and trophies out of bicycle bits online with a new venture called ‘Clocks, Cleats & Cranks.’Andy Smith of the Swindon Road Club is well known in the West Country for riding cyclo-cross as well as organising rounds of the Wessex Cyclo-Cross League. Indeed, it was … Read more
Olympic champion rower James Cracknell has revealed how he has taken to using a cargo bike to get around after his driving licence was revoked after he suffered a seizure, a consequence of the incident that almost claimed his life last year when he was struck by a lorry while cycling in Arizona.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson will come under intense criticism at the monthly Mayor’s Question Time session at the capital’s City Hall tomorrow, with what his critics describe as his apparent prioritisation of traffic flow over the safety of cyclists one of the issues on which he faces scrutiny. It’s an impression that is also … Read more
The BBC’s intrepid Helen Skelton who is already a heroine to the UK’s schoolchildren on account of paddling a canoe the length of the Amazon is now to attempt a 500-mile mission across the ice to the South Pole using a bicycle.According to the BBC her date with the Antarctic will start tomorrow (Wednesday 14th … Read more
