Pride comes before a fall, they say, and Spain’s proud recent sporting record has taken a battering in the past few days. After a year during which the Iberian nation has all but monopolised the back pages – World Cup winners, Nadal’s Wimbledon and US Open wins (the latter completing his Grand Slam), Contador’s third … Read more
The marketing blurb for this lube is remarkably plain – “Chain Juice Wet is a wet conditions chain lube which does what a wet lube should – it stays on your chain and keeps lubricating in wet conditions. Simple.” Which is a nice change from the usual flowery guff that lube sellers use to hawk … Read more
A fourth Spanish cyclist has been provisionally suspended for suspected doping offences, the UCI has announced today.Margarita Fullana is a triple mountain biking world champion and bronze medallist in the discipline at the Sydney Olympics.The UCI has advised her that she is provisionally suspended following a report from the WADA accredited laboratory in Montreal indicating … Read more
Giorgia Bronzini of Italy succeeded team mate Tatiana Guderzo as women’s World Road Champion in Geelong this afternoon as Britain’s Nicole Cooke, who had attacked with Judith Arndt of Germany around 8 kilometres out, caught right before the line.Cooke and Arndt seemed poise to fight it out for the gold medal as they entered the … Read more
This Sunday the grounds of Britain’s greatest palace open once again for the annual Bike Blenheim Palace cycling festival. Attracting over 7,000 people in 2009 this unique event has established itself as one of the most exciting cycling events in the country. In 2010 Bike Blenheim Palace has again partnered with Breast Cancer Care as … Read more
Tiffin today took the form of a Multipower energy flapjack with a toffee topping; there’s certainly plenty of fuel in one of them, we had to go halves. Anyhow that gave us enough finger power to scroll to the splendid random number generator at www.random.org and pick ourselves some winners. And those winners are:DavePAlankkGavinTCongrats you … Read more
This morning, in an ideal world, the nation’s mainstream press would have given some decent coverage to Great Britain’s cyclists heading towards what could be their most successful road word championships ever, David Millar’s time-trial silver coming 24 hours after Emma Pooley’s gold in the women’s event.Instead, with the sport reeling after yesterday’s revelation that … Read more
The capital’s cyclists can now nominate their favourite cycle-based project or event for the London Cycling Awards 2010. The awards programme has been expanded this year to include the best (non-competitive) cycling event. Anyone can nominate a cycling project or facility for an award – and self-nominations are welcome.The categories for this year’s nominations are:• … Read more
Taiwan’s Xpedo have updated their Thrust road pedals for 2011 with a larger platform area that’s designed to improve power transfer. The new XRF07 and XRF08 pedals have 12% larger surface areas than previous models, with platforms that are 59mm wide.That’s the same increase in size that Look claimed when they began including 57mm wide … Read more
Here’s another Eurobike fave, the new Orbea Orca. The Orca can probably lay claim to being the most influential road bike design of the 21st century. The elegant lines of the original ‘New” Orca certainly influenced many very successful bikes from other big name bike – the Madone amongst them.While they weren’t the first to … Read more
