Feats Per Minute collaboration presents bike adapted using two vertical juke box pickups to play 12″ vinyl tunes on its wheels. It quite literally provides music while you cycle. It helps to appreciate the little Dutch in-joke playing on the word ‘Fiets’ for bicycle; three designers Pieter Frank de Jong, Merel Slootheer and Liat Azulay have … Read more
Like we said, soon you’ll have road shifters with hydraulic internals and discs on your road bike. It’s the future, though seemingly not the future everyone wants. Anyway, for now the focus is on cyclocross and Jo’s first ride on the Kinesis Crosslight Pro 6 was enough to persuade him that actually, he did like … Read more
Chris Boardman and Graeme Obree are set to reprise one of cycling’s most closely-fought rivalries in 2012, representing respectively England and Scotland in what is billed as the biggest ever Sport Relief Challenge, called First Nation Home. The event also gives a chance to 1,000 people from each of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to represent their country in a six-mile run that brings it to a close.
A different lifetime ago, when we were young and full of immortality, we’d high-tail it from the coast after work following signs up the A1 to The North and batter ourselves until we were two packets of custard-cream crackered from ticking off as many proper hills as we could find in a Whitby weekend. It … Read more
London’s SE1 postcode has emerged as the one of the capital’s bike theft hotspots south of the river, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. The South London Press reports that around two bikes a day were reported stolen in the area during 2010/11. Elsewhere in South London, Lambeth Borough Coucil is … Read more
Cateye’s nano shot rechargeable front light is the answer to a svelte commuter/ winter road bikes’ prayers. No hefty batteries to induce premature bottle cage fatigue, or contaminate a sportier bikes’ clean lines, its slender fig biscuit profile and textbook build quality delivers a scorching 250 lumens, charges from the computer’s USB in a matter … Read more
When we say ‘just in’ the Teammachine is that fast that it’s already ‘just out’… flying round the roads of Wilts and points west with that Stu Kerton on board.What we have here is basically a 2011 special or perhaps more accurately a 2011.5 special spec’d for the UK by Evans and built up by … Read more
The OneTen Intimo is a good, well thought-out base layer for cooler rides.OneTen is a new British bike-clothing brand that concentrates on ‘thermophysiological interactions’. Do what? They’ve used thermal body mapping in the design process – looking at where you produce heat and where you sweat – to decide what fabrics to use and how … Read more
We’ve regularly featured stories here on road.cc highlighting the valuable role that helmet cameras can play in providing evidence of dangerous driving an even assault putting cyclists at risk of injury or worse. Now, a doctoral student in Australia have used the devices to assess the risks involved in cycling through Melbourne, and to establish … Read more
Katusha’s Alexander Kolbnev, the only rider to test positive following a doping control in this year’s Tour de France, has escaped a ban and instead been fined CHF1,500 – equivalent to £1,061 – by the doping commission of the Russian cycling federation, the FVSR, reports Reuters. It is not yet known whether the UCI intends … Read more
