New Australian outfit GreenEdge and RadioShack-Nissan, the team formed from the merger of RadioShack and Leopard Trek which includes both Schleck brothers and Fabian Cancellara, have yet to satisfy the requirements of the UCI Licensing Commission in connection with their respective applications for a WorldTour licence for the 2012 season.The news was povided in an … Read more
Much to the relief of the macho types and, I suppose, goths Nite Rider’s Lightning bug 3.0 also comes in black, as well as white, red, blue and green… and the pink version tested here. Indeed a black one has alternated between helmet peaks and the Univega’s prodigious WTB drops for the past twelve months, … Read more
A driver who was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after he ran over a cyclist in Oxford on purpose has been acquitted by a jury of attempted murder but convicted of wounding with intent and jailed for nine and a half years.Passing sentence at Oxford Crown Court as well as a ten-year ban from … Read more
There’s a free copy of ‘Escape Routes’ by Matt Carroll worth £16.95 for anyone that joins the London Cycling Campaign before December 20th.As LCC’s Lucy Cooper says, “Any of our membership packages makes a brilliant present for a friend or relative, and you’ll be supporting your favourite charity.” For the next few weeks there’s a … Read more
If you’re in the market for some Sunday-best racing rubber with a measure of puncture protection too the Specialized S-Works should be on your list, but if your performance tyres have to put a shift in during the week too then maybe you should look elsewhere. Specialized’s S-Works Turbo tyres sit in one of the … Read more
Insurance comparison firm Confused.com has provoked a storm of criticism from both cyclists and drivers alike with a ham-fisted and error-strewn press release aimed at promoting an equally confused road safety campaign and ostensibly highlighting the problem of road rage on Britain’s roads which has instead managed to alienate – not to mention confuse – … Read more
The organisers of top Classic bike races like Gent-Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders have teamed up with Belgium’s bike clothing maker Vermarc to offer a distinctive ‘Flanders Classics’ range of year-round kit. In other respects if you said that a company was the biggest in Belgium you’d have people thinking you were setting up for … Read more
Tomorrow we bring you an exclusive first ride of the 2012 Planet X Nanolight and a mighty gallery of pictures, tonight though to whet your appetite we’ve got this short video featuring Planet X bike designers, Brant Richards and ‘Big Frank’ Campbell talking us around the standout features of their new Nanolight N2 road bike.As … Read more
Very straightforward idea this from Commuter Technologies, and nice with it. Don’t fancy cycling in your shirt, but need one for work? Can’t afford a big stack of new ones at the office for a fresh shirt every day, like those greedy bankers undoubtedly do? Then try a Shirt Shuttle. It’s a protective travel case … Read more
The established Veho mini camera range is going to be available in bike shops for the first time, prompted by their recent Atom micro model which seems made for bicycle helmet mounting. Distribution to shops will be handled by Raleigh.In case you didn’t realise, Raleigh the bike company in Nottingham is also one of the … Read more
