There’s a lot of buzz building over next week’s one-off showing of the movie Chasing Legends, which screens simultaneously in 50 cinemas around the UK, and having been lucky enough to watch the film last night, we can guarantee that it lives up to the hype.After a few weeks in which the sport of pro … Read more
The sentencing of people convicted of driving offences which have caused death or serious injury to cyclists, is an issue that often enrages the cycling community. All too often it seems that those affected, be it loved ones left behind or victims whose lives are irrevocably changed through injury, feel they have been failed by … Read more
The battle lines have been drawn in Kent over, well, a line, the Herne Bay Times reports. The offending yellow stripe runs for miles along the promenade in Herne Bay, apparently in order to stop cyclists who use this section of the Oyster Bay Trail cycle route from riding off the edge of the prom … Read more
London 2012 organisers have announced details of ticket prices for the Olympic Games, and the bad news is that if you’re planning on being at the Velodrome in person to see if Team GB’s track stars can repeat their Beijing gold rush, you’d best start saving now, with the best tickets in the house for … Read more
As the dust settles on yesterday’s news that the Coalition Government is to disband Cycling England in March next year, it’s sobering to reflect how quickly the Tories’ manifesto pledge that “encouraging cycling will be a major priority for a future Conservative Government” appears to have been torn up during the party’s first five months … Read more
As Britain braces itself for the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Revue, advocates of cycling are likely to feel a chill running down their spines on hearing of a particulalrly savage funding cut in Northern Ireland. The Belfast Telegraph newspaper reports that the cycling budget for the city has been slashed from £450,000 to £8,000. The staggering … Read more
It’s cyclocross season everybody – time to get dirty. And when it’s over it’s often the case that a CX bike will get a runout as a workhorse in the off season: the geometry and spec normally suits a bit of dual use. And that’s definitely the case with our latest test rig, the Cannondale … Read more
As next week’s Comprehensive Spending Review begins to loom large, the London Cycling Campaign is urging the capital’s cyclists to write to their London Assembly Members. The Campaign wants Londoners to press their representatives to do everything they can to protect cycling budgets from public expenditure cuts.“Please write to your London Assembly Member welcoming all the … Read more
The chronic shortage of cycle parking stands in London is the subject of the London Cycling Campaign’s Cycle Parking 4 London campaign which wants to see 100,000 new cycle stands across Greater London Using a spot of crowd-sourcing, the campaign is asking Londoners to click on a map on their website to indicate where they … Read more
Tomorrow’s Giro di Lombardia, the last big race of the 2010 cycling season, risks being overshadowed by a rider protest against recent comments by Ettore Torri, chief anti-doping prosecutor of CONI, the Italian Olympic Committee, that all riders dope and performance enhancing substitutes in the peloton should be legalised.Although CONI and Torri sought to distance … Read more
