In the least surprising piece of transfer news regarding an Australian former world champion since, ooh, this morning’s announcement that Michael Rogers is joining Team Sky, The Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project has confirmed that Stuart O’Grady will be following the Schleck brothers in moving from Team Saxo Bank.In a press release, the team’s management company, … Read more
A 43% cut to the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership’s budget could lead to an increased number of serious accidents, according to council officers and road safety campaigners, the Brighton Argus reports. Among the likely cuts mentioned by the paper is cycle training for children – however in its response to the coalition government’s comprehensive spending … Read more
“Long Beach, the most bicycle friendly city in America,” says the inscription beneath a penny farthing sculpture outside the City Hall in the Californian town.The absolute certainty of that proclamation makes it even harder to understand the treatment by the town’s police of Long Beach’s inaugural Critical Mass ride at the weekend.The Long Beach Press-Telegram … Read more
Team Sky has announced former World Time Trial Champion Michael Rogers as its sixth signing for the 2011 season. Rogers, who won the rainbow jersey three years in succession from 2003 and 2005 – the first of those after David Millar was stripped of his title following his ban for doping – joins the British … Read more
German bike brand Canyon has today launched a UK support line for customers on this side of the Channel.“If, for example, someone has a question about setup or something like that, they just call the line and we’ll sort it out from the UK rather than from Germany,” says Cullen Ward from Canyon.“And if there’s … Read more
NiteRider’s Ultrafazer Max might sound like a dodgy sci-fi spin off but it’s a very powerful commuter lamp utilising some equally clever optics. A single watt LED casts a very pure white beam that’s adequate to see by in urban and suburban contexts, albeit a little underpowered for longer training runs taking in rural back … Read more
Entries open at noon today for London-Paris 2011, with the 520km, three-day ride from Hampton Court Palace to the Eiffel Tower, featuring rolling road closures, police outriders and lead cars to give what organisers claim is “the closest the amateur rider can get to the Tour de France experience.”If you want to book a place, … Read more
Work began this morning on a 124 space ‘super’ cycle hire docking station close to the main entrance of Waterloo Station. The new station will be the biggest yet for the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme, which has more than 100,000 members.Over 1.3 million journeys have been made on London’s fleet of blue bicycles, with around … Read more
This month, thousands of men around the world will be growing ‘taches to show their support for the prostate cancer charity, Movember, and cyclists are being encouraged to do their bit too, with The Tweed Run getting involved in helping auction a pair of 24-carat Gold Moustache Bars on the cycling auction website, Going Going … Read more
Mark Cavendish, who last month found the Geelong course too tough as rival Thor Hushovd won the World Championship, has given his thumbs-up to the course that will be used in Denmark next year.Yesterday the HTC-Columbia rider rode two 14km laps of the course in Rudersdal, north of Copenhagen, and believes that a bunch finish … Read more
