This Sunday family, friends and staff of the late Richard Barson, director of Bloomsbury & Co will be cycling between two of the company’s shops, one in Bath and the other Bristol, in his memory.The aim of the ride is to help raise £20,000 for the Brain Tumour Research charity. You can support the riders … Read more
The 2011 Tour of Britain will begin in Scotland on Sunday, September 11, finishing eight days later in London on Sunday, September 18, and will once again be categorised at the 2.1 level by the UCI. Full details of the 2011 route and the locations of individual stages will be announced at the National launch … Read more
We’re number 1! And we’ve got a shiny award to prove it! On Wednesday night the road.cc team attended the BikeBiz industry awards, along with over 200 of the cycle industry’s great and good, and walked away with the gong for best consumer website. And to top off a great night, our pals at Singletrack … Read more
The Scottish-based bike product distributor Hotlines has been targeted by thieves during the Cycle Show.The company announced today that thieves broke in to its London show venue at the Dray Walk Gallery just off Brick Lane at approximately 3:30am last night. Six high end and very rare bikes as well as a Lynskey Titanium frame … Read more
Ah, Assos. Like Stella Artois, reassuringly expensive. Even multi-millionaires have pause to reflect if this picture of Lord Sugar at the Cycle Show at Earls Court yesterday is anything to go by.But what was the Amstrad supremo and star of TV’s The Apprentice really thinking? Over to you, road.cc users, to supply the caption… we … Read more
Director General of Spain’s Sports Council, Albert Soler, has revealed that two Spanish cyclists are about to be sanctioned for doping offences while a further five are under investigation for “abnormal haematocrit levels.” In what is widely being seen – outside Spain at least – as a blitz against an endemic doping culture, Soler said … Read more
Next up in our Eurobike Hall of Fame is one of our favourite bikes, from one of our favourite stands – the Krafstoff Franz Josef singlespeed/fixer, from Austrian outfit er, Krafstoff. Pretty poor of us not to find their stand until the last day of the show, particularly as it was booming out what I’m … Read more
Australian dominance continues in the track cycling at the Commonwealth Games with the latest count being 11 golds out of a possible 13, at least as we write.There has only been the occasional blip for the green-and-gold bedecked riders in the velodrome but, gold-medal haul aside, one thing that always causes a ripple Down Under … Read more
On Monday October 11, UK charity, Sustrans is challenging around 8000 Welsh school pupils from 40 primary schools across the Principality to take part in a challenging, 709 mile bike ride, in a bid to increase cycling levels amongst children.Sustrans will challenge schools to complete the 709 mile route – which will take children on … Read more
It rained. A lot. And it was windy. Very windy. But the inaugural Bristol Belter powered by Specialized Concept Store (to give it its full name) sportive was a big success with over 200 riders taking on some of the biggest climbs in the West and coming back smiling.When you wake up at 6am and … Read more
