Entry tickets are now on sale for 2012 events in the Wiggle Super Series as it heads into its third year, with a total of 22 sportives and MTB rides across the South of England on offer as the programme continues to expand to meet demand.One of the events that is building upon its success … Read more
Niterider’s MiNewt 600 cordless is a compact and elegant light that packs plenty of punch, and is small enough – just – to go on your helmet as well as your bars. With good build quality and a super-simple clamp, it’s a very good option for all your riding, so long as you don’t want … Read more
A man aged in his 50s has become the first cyclist to die on one of London’s Barclays Cycle Superhighways. The incident bears some of the all-too-familiar elements of a London cycling fatality, with a tipper lorry involved, and taking place at a busy junction described by a local blogger as “a bloody disgrace.”The cyclist, … Read more
The Scalatore drinking bottle from Elite is a stylish and functional piece of kit that would look the part on most road bikes. Its understated colour scheme and decals are far from garish, there’s even a stylish picture of a mountain well, sort of – the graphics depicting a famous Giro climb (Stelvio) on the … Read more
The number of motorists who have had their driving licences taken away because their vision is too poor for them to drive has jumped sharply over the past four years – although that only translates to less than 1 in 10,000. Meanwhile, with Britain’s ageing population, more than 3 million people aged 71 and older, … Read more
The Gironde comes from Campagnolo’s Heritage range, home to clothing that has a classic look to it rather than using traditional fabrics. There is a little bit of wool in the Heritage lineup but this jersey is all synthetic – polyester, polyurethane and elastane.Campagnolo describe this as both a jacket and a jersey, and it … Read more
This simple and cheap solution to the old problem of ‘wet cyclist’s bottom’ and made by a group of friends in Sweden is sweeping the cycling world if their Ass Savers Facebook page is anything to go by.This origami-like shape made from recycle plastic and designed to store out of the way under the saddle … Read more
Mondays: round and round they come with monotonous regularity. But not this Monday. Yeah it came round, but if was far from monotonous – not if you were one of the lucky people at the first ever Geraint Thomas Track Day at Newport Velodrome, that’s where me, Dave and road.cc competition winner Alec Mckinnon pitched … Read more
So after the MAMIL come the ROGUES (Random Old Guys Using Excess Speed).My Sunday morning ride had started like so many others trundling along Yaxley Broadway to the lights as a sort of warm up. I love riding the single speed in the winter. The workout feels so much more pure and brutal than on … Read more
The chairman of Southampton Cycling Campaign, Lindsi Bluemel, is in hospital with life-threatening head injuries following what appears to be a freak incident in Bournemouth. According to a report in the Bournemouth Echo, Ms Bluemel’s cycle helmet had been stolen two days prior to yesterday morning’s incident, and she had not yet replaced it.Mrs Bluemel, … Read more
