Intelligence Squared – or, as they put it, Intelligence² – which bills itself as “the world’s premier debating forum” and whose past speakers include Richard Dawkins, Damien Hirst and Stephen Fry, will be holding a Cycling Festival on the evening of Thursday 8 September.Chaired by hotelier and cycling enthusiast Rocco Forte, the evening brings together … Read more
Around 100 cyclists attended the funeral in Edinburgh yesterday of 75-year-old Audrey Fyfe, the cyclist who died earlier this month after doctors switched off her life support machine. She had been in intensive care for two days after being struck by a car as she rode home from her daughter’s house. As an organ donor, … Read more
What’s more, today you can track Jo’s progress on what is pretty much the Queen Stage of the seven-day event, which takes in no fewer than 15 Cols between Geneva and Nice, via the Haute Route website through the magic of GPS.Haute Route TV caught up with Jo and interviewed him at the end of … Read more
Today’s stage is bookended by two big climbs, the Category 1 Alto de Filabres, the summit of which will be reached after 31 kilometres of steady climbing from the start, and the hors-categorie Sierra Nevada, which has a gradient of 10 per cent on its lower slopes and which provides the first of this year’s … Read more
Stars of the ITV soap opera Emmerdale have completed a 224-mile ride from the Woolpack pub which features in that show to the Queen Vic, of BBC EastEnders fame. What’s more, riding as individuals rather than a relay, they rode through the night to complete the trip in less than 24 hours with the target … Read more
The outward appearance won’t change very much from the white-with-a-hint-of-pink that’s sold well for them, it seems – our most recent reviewer of the Hybrid Comp Fi certainly liked it – but the Boardman women’s models will be getting a 2012 revamp this month, particularly on the top carbon model to bring it into line … Read more
Kenda is known as a budget brand, and the Kadence tyre is not expensive, but it does a jolly good job for the price. On picking up one of these tyres, the first thing I noticed was the low weight. The Kenda website claims 197g per tyre (the all-black version) and 205g (with colour hoops) … Read more
Pablo Lastras of Movistar says that it was his experience that helped him judge the right time to attack to allow him not only to win Stage 3 of the 2011 Vuelta in Totana today but also to take the race leader’s jersey from Leopard Trek’s Daniele Bennati.It’s the third Vuelta stage win of Lastras’ … Read more
Ibis has carried out what it’s calling refinements to the layup of the carbon-fibre Silk SL road frame to bring the weight down to 2.2lbs or, as we Europeans like to say, 1,000 grams which is neither a bad weight for a top-notch race frame nor a too shocking price for £1,549.99* including the matching … Read more
Following on from the success of Rapha’s first female specific products last year, the company have released a few more items into the wild one of which is the short sleeved Women’s Club Jersey. This is a quarter zip companion to the Women’s Classic Jersey, and comes with a few different new features, and without … Read more
