Great Britain will have a full complement of five riders in the Olympic road race next summer, world cycling’s governing body, the UCI has confirmed, Italy, Germany the Netherlands, Australia, Switzerland and the USA will also have five man teams, France will have four riders. The news is not unexpected and is based on each … Read more
Form definitely meets function with the Moon Mask 5.0 LED, which claims to delivers a whopping 70 lumens in the highest of five modes-just enough for tackling well surfaced lanes at 20 odd mph and a real boon for roadside repair, pannier rummaging and map reading. It certainly gave a punch performance in our beam … Read more
Commuting by car or public transport is bad for your health, that’s the not very shocking conclusion of a Swedish public health survey in to the commuting habits of 21,000 people which has been published in the journal BMC Public HealthThe snappily titled “Detection Relationship between commuting and health outcomes in a cross-sectional population survey … Read more
All the votes are in, and in a change to the usual laid back approach to drawing a winner, we thought we’d try and be on the button with this one and, erm, draw it on the day we said we would. So we headed over to www.random.org and asked it for a number between … Read more
If you’ve been following the story of The Bicycle Academy here on road.cc you might be wondering what’s been going on. BAck in August we reported that they’d be looking to secure crowd funding in October to the tune of about £30k, but hey: it’s halloween and there’s been no news. Well, the funding push … Read more
Chris King the Portland, Oregon maker of hubs, bottom brackets and headsets is introducing a Campagnolo-fitting version of his R45 rear road cassette freehub. The date for shipments from the USA is January 2012.We reviewed the relatively new R45 hubs back in July last year when they were first launched, our Mat Brett concluding, “Superbly … Read more
The Deloitte Ride Across Brtiain has come a long way in just a couple of years, firmly establishing itself as one of the UK’s highest profile multi-day events. And if you’re thinking of signing up for the third edition in 2012, you’d better get your application in quicksmart, as places are moving fast.If you’re not … Read more
Smoother than a porn star’s bits, Freedom ThickSlick Sport looks almost identical to the ThickSlick Elites reviewed recently but saves 80g and £20 (pr) over their urban siblings. Admittedly, you lose the Kevlar belt and sidewalls but put through the same paces, ours seemed friskier, just as impenetrable with more refinement to boot.465g could never … Read more
Oxford Police have bailed the 74-year-old driver of a cement lorry on suspicion of causing death dangerous driving following a collision in the north of the city on Friday that resulted in the death of a 34-year-old female cyclist.The fatal incident happened on Friday morning at the junctions of Woodstock Road and Polstead Road, according … Read more
Tokyo Fixed, the bike shop based in London's Soho specialises in the esoteric end of the imported fixie and singlespeed market, stocking such brands as Cinelli and Cherubim to satisfy the younger thrusting film directors and music industry moguls that these days prefer to cycle the exotic local streets in preference to driving in bePorsched. To their credit, though, the friendly basement workshop seems just as happy to service the chefs, third assistant sound engineers and couriers that make up the great majority of W1's cycle-to-workers.
