From today London has two more Barclays Cycle Superhighways, routes CS2 from Bow to Aldgate, and CS8 from Wandsworth to Westminister become fully operational today bringing the total to four. London now has one third of what is intened be be a 12 route radial network.To coincide with the official opening of the new routes … Read more
Nice to see that he rolled his sleeves down for that bit of extra protection. CAUTION: MAY CAUSE DIZZINESS
Endura gear has been around for almost 20 years, catering for roadies, commuters and the off-road crowd. Judging by the number of people in my local club that wear Endura kit – especially shorts and tights – it’s jolly good stuff. Endura have now raised their own bar to produce the distinct Equipe range of … Read more
Into the final week of the race, and the 2011 Tour heads into the Alps. It’s more or less steady climbing all the way through to the day’s only categorised climb, the Col de Manse, before the race sweeps down into Gap, 20 times a stage host town.There are four transfers available for this stageThought … Read more
Silence, wrote George Bernard Shaw, is the most perfect expression of scorn. Lance Armstrong, however, as we all know, just can’t resist a comeback. But when a previously unknown tweeter with (at the time) just two followers and a dozen or so tweets to his name linked to our item about Lance’s Twitter Ride with … Read more
A British Paralympic cyclist fears the theft of his three bikes, worth £9000 in total, may jeopardise his cycling future, reports the Henley Standard.Matt Plested, 38, has battled back from serious injuries sustained in a motorbike crash in 1999 which left him with a broken neck and back and which resulted in paralysis in his … Read more
Another week of racing done, and who would have though that Tommy Voeckler would be resplendent in yellow even after the pain of the Pyrenees? That’s what we’ve got though, and he’s a breath of fresh air, for sure. In the road.cc and Evans Cycles Fantasy Tour de France it’s just as tight as it … Read more
Italy’s Wilier have launched a new superlight road bike called the Zero 7 which features new technology designed to dampen vibration and improve the overall ride quality. We reported on it briefly when we saw it at the Giro but we’ve now had the chance to see the bike for ourselves.The Zero 7 frame weighs … Read more
Alexander Vinokourov, winner of the Vuelta in 2006 plus three classics and a string of one-week stage races, but perhaps best remembered for being thrown out of the 2007 Tour de France for doping, has announced his retirement. The news isn’t entirely unexpected – the 37-year-old Kazakh, who broke his femur in a crash on … Read more
Lance says it was over 1000 while the local newspaper, the Northern Times suggests it was 200. Either way, on an at times damp day in Sutherland – one of the most sparsely populated parts of the UK – the lure of a “Twitter Ride” with a seven-time Tour winner was enough to draw in … Read more
