The second of the CTC’s Cycle Champions women only sportives takes place on the 18th of September with organisers looking to build on the success of the first event in Leeds which attracted a big field in June despite atrocious weather. Riders can expect the full top level sportive experience tailored to their ability on … Read more
You may remember our report earlier this year on the Red Bull Mini Drome when it was temporarily installed at Bethnal Green’s York Hall – the spectacle was memorably likened by TR to watching “a cat on a bicycle, cycling around in your bath.” Now, track cycling fans in Scotland’s largest city will have the … Read more
A British student is recovering in hospital after falling 65 feet over a cliff during a cycling holiday in Croatia. Luke Sheppard, aged 23, is believed to have suffered hallucinations due to severe dehydration as temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius.Luke, from Seaford, East Sussex, was at the start of a three-week cycling holiday with friends … Read more
Made from extremely lightweight Gore-Tex Paclite, the Xenon is available for both men and women and is designed to be a waterproof shell for cyclists wanting protection from the elements with no weight penalty. It’s a pared down jacket as far as features go, with clean lines and just one single pocket at chest height. … Read more
Quick Step’s Sylvain Chavanel, the new leader of the Vuelta, admits that it was the thought of getting the race leader’s red jersey that kept him going on the day’s final climb, the Sierra Nevada. The climb proved too much for overnight leader Pablo Lastras of Movistar, who slid down the rankings, while pre-race favourite … Read more
Katusha’s Daniel Moreno won the first of the six summit finishes that feature in the 2011 Vuelta on the Sierra Nevada this afternoon, on a day when defending points jersey champion Mark Cavendish, who has clearly been struggling with the heat, abandoned the race. SaxoBank-SunGard’s Chris Anker Sorensen was second, with Garmin-Cervelo’s Dan Martin third. … Read more
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
