The Ride Around London – a new 115-mile sportive looping the capital on Sunday 25 September – always looked like a good bet. But dig a little deeper into the work done by Access Sport, the charity organising it, and the ride becomes even more compelling. Access Sport works with business, community groups, sporting bodies … Read more
The little Pennsylvania company whose oh-so-simple lock holster we reviewed back in 2009 has expanded its range to the extent that you can now custom-design your own belt mounted carrying system.It’s still not going to particularly suit the Lycra-clad classes; our review of the Fabric Horse Lock Holder said, “The coolest way to carry a … Read more
Dan Martin of Garmin-Cervelo insisted this evening that he was treating each day of the Vuelta as a one-day race – the cyclist’s equivalent of a footballer saying he’ll take each day as it comes – despite an impressive performance by the 25-year-old this afternoon that saw him land the first Grand Tour stage win … Read more
Dan Martin of Garmin-Cervelo today won Stage 9 of the 2011 Vuelta, his first Grand Tour stage victory, after a hugely impressive ride on a day when several of the main contenders for the GC ran into severe dfficulty on a tough climb up to La Covatilla. Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins put in perhaps his … Read more
Starting with a standard pair of their Thermoflex armwarmers and coating it with millions of silicone ‘nanofilaments’, Castelli have created a water repellent fabric called Nanoflex that causes raindrops to bead off of the fabric as you are riding keeping you drier for longer. That’s the theory; and the practice?Well, in practice the Nanoflex arm … Read more
This is the fourth time the Vuelta has featured the 1,970-metre summit of La Covatilla, with the finish coming after 10 kilometres of climbing at an average gradient of more than 7 per cent. Riders with aspirations of a high place on the GC will be on their toes today – as the saying goes, … Read more
Like saddles, shoes are always going to be an incredibly personal choice. What suits one person may well be completely unsuitable for someone else, due to foot shape, biomechanical quirks, past injuries or just personal preference. I’m blessed with fairly “standard” feet and suffer from no major biomechanical issues, so I usually find it relatively … Read more
Joaquin Rodriguez of Katusha today took his second stage win of the 2011 Vuelta and with it the race leader’s red jersey. With an individual time trial looming on Monday – a discipline in which he is notoriously weak – he may have trouble holding onto it beyond tomorrow, despite looking the strongest rider in … Read more
Demand has been so high for the 1200 places on the New Forest 100 Sportive, the final event of the Wiggle Super Series on the 2nd of October that organisers UK Cycling Events have decided to lay on a bonus Saturday New Forest 100 Sportive over the same course to cater for all those that … Read more
Joaquin Rodriquez of Katusha is the new leader of the 2011 Vuelta after attacking on the short but brutally steep climb in the last kilometre to San Lorenzo de El Escorial to win Stage 8 of the Spanish Grand Tour this afternoon. Michele Scarponi of Lampre-ISD, who had been first to make a move on … Read more
