A 21-year-old DJ on a fixie has emerged as one of the more unlikely heroes of this week’s splurge of looting in cities around the UK, using his bike to cycle round Bristol and using his Twitter feed to provide an accurate, eyewitness account of what was happening in place of internet rumour and hearsay.Leon … Read more
Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins has revealed that he plans to use the Stage 10 individual time trial in the Vuelta as a rehearsal for next month’s world championships in Copenhagen, and that it will also help him assess his likely recovery in 12 months’ time between the Tour de France and the time trial at … Read more
Gaerne shoes seem to kick about under the radar but they do so quite successfully on the feet of the likes of Petacchi, Cunego and Van Den Broeck, where admittedly their blurriness makes them hard to spot. These G.Mythos are stacked about mid-way up in the Gaerne shoe-cupboard, suitable for the enthusiastic weekend warrior that … Read more
Cycling fans in the UK who don’t have a subscription to Eurosport won’t miss out on this year’s third Grand Tour, with the news that free-to-air channel ITV4 will be broadcasting live coverage of the Vuelta, which starts with a team time trial in Benidorm a week on Saturday. Earlier this year, the channel revealed … Read more
While the theft of bikes from retailers has been very much in the news this week, an equally pernicious, though lower profile, spate of thefts has been reported in the Southport area. Thieves are helping themselves to bikes from Southport homes at a rate of almost two a night, reports the Southport Visiter.The paper says … Read more
The Countdown AS Lady Vest (there’s also a male version) is a lightweight gilet designed specifically for cycling and one of the few available in a women’s specific cut. Gilets are particularly handy in the UK’s challenging climate. It’s great to have something along on a ride that’s pocket sized that’ll bestow a hefty wallop … Read more
Most of us will have been there, pushing ourselves to the limit on a bike until it feels like we can’t get enough air in our lungs to keep going. But this weekend a team of Scottish fire-fighters will be riding their bikes on a sponsored relay event until they literally run out of air.The … Read more
Ultegra Di2 wasn’t the only new experience we had out in Switzerland this week. Paying £6 for a croissant was another. But there were good experiences too, like having a go on one of Giant’s 2012 TCR framesets.The electronic shifting was the reason we were there, but there was also a lot of talk about … Read more
Britain’s biggest bike seller Halfords today announced that the Whistle bike brand is now available as an e-tailer exclusive on its Halfords.com website.The six road bikes and and nine mountain models range in price £349.99 to £1,899.99 with the flagship model being a Shimano Ultegra-equipped road machine with a carbon-fibre frame.The Whistle brand originates in … Read more
The UCI has angrily rejected criticism of its biological passport programme by Gerard Vroomen, co-founder of Cervélo, regarding a perceived lack of testing, the governing body providing figures from tests conducted on riders of the team the Canadian bike-brand itself co-sponsors, Garmin- Cervélo, to illustrate its point.By responding to Vroomen’s criticisms in a press release … Read more
