Smartphone GPS cycling app purveyors Strava have teamed up with Rapha who are getting a lot of love in the US market presently to offer a Thanksgiving challenge called Turkey Takeoff.It started yesterday Wednesday and runs until the end of Sunday 26th; what you need to do is download the Strava app and log enough … Read more
For Facebook fans Italian clothing makers Santini have posted a competition which involves voting for the best of this year’s custom club kit.According to Santini, this year apart from pro teams like Katusha, Vacansoleil and Lampre and the national squads of Australia and Ireland, they’ve designed, printed and delivered over 800 sets of custom kit … Read more
The Successors have been a mainstay of BBB’s surprisingly large sunglasses range for some time now. Over the years, they’ve graced the faces of many notable pros including Tom Boonen, whose 2005 world road championships win spawned this rainbow striped edition.The World Champion model comes with three different lens types which are standard across the … Read more
Organisers of next year’s Olympic Games are planning to increase spectator numbers on the controversial Box Hill section of the cycling road race road which will see world champion Mark Cavendish attempt to get London 2012 off to a flying start for Great Britain.The land on which Box Hill lies is owned by the National … Read more
Mark Cavendish isn’t the only cyclist up for an award in next month’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year, with news that Britain’s other rainbow jersey winner at Copehagen, Lucy Garner, has been shortlisted in the Young Sports Personality category.The 17-year-old from Leicestershire was the first British woman since Nicole Cooke in 2001 to win … Read more
An 85-year-old motorist who continued to drive for three miles, unaware that he had ploughed through a group of five cyclists, killing one and seriously injuring another, has escaped jail after being given a six-month sentence suspended for six months.Llandudno Magistrates’ Court heard that Huw Edwards of Bryngwran, Anglesey, whose health had deteriorated in the … Read more
Superstore retailer Halfords launched on their webshop this morning a budget racer under their Carrera brand offering, as they put it, “unbeatable specification and value at under £1,000.”The new bike which carries the long-running Virago name for the Carrera brand is evidently a bit of a toe-in-the-water for Halfords who hitherto reserved the Boardman brand … Read more
Around one in twelve London residents have tried out the city’s Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme since it was launched at the end of July 2010, a survey has revealed.The London Omnibus survey, conducted by YouGov, only questions people who live within the capital’s broughs, and therefore excludes tourists and other visitors as well as those … Read more
Doubt. Self-doubt. It’s horrible. I’m sure you all want to hear how positive I feel about my abilities but sometimes that’s not the case. I’m going to put it down to riding with a Cat 1 racer on Saturday morning’s fast group ride with Stirling Bike Club. Another soon-to-be Cat 4 club mate is also a … Read more
The Pro-viz Electro Luminescent Vest was designed by two brothers who commuted daily through the cut and hustle of London’s mean streets and it shows. Looser cut than their gilet for a better fit over street clothes, it doesn’t feel like a tent atop training jackets.Integral lighting steals the show but is flanked by Scotchlite … Read more
