Glasgow community charity, Free Wheel North is holding a Try Cycling Open Day tomorrow in the city between 10am and 3pm so if you know anyone who might like to give two wheels a go why not tell them to pop along. The event will take place on Glasgow Green in the small park just … Read more
Juan Mauricio Soler has been transferred via a medical flight to a hospital in his European home base of Pamplona.The flight, which took place on Saturday morning, saw the Columbian Movistar rider, who received serious brain and other injuries in a crash at the Tour de Suisse, accompanied back to Spain from hospital in the … Read more
We’ve long held Shimano’s shallow-section RS80s to be one of the better mid-range standard wheelsets on the market, so were keen to get our hands on these deep section C50 hoops to see if they measure up. And they do, pretty much: they’re well made, fast at speed and good-looking. Only the weight lets them … Read more
Lauren Booth is the 10-year old girl we featured in this story who survived meningitis as a baby and has conquered the resulting disabilities to become a leading competitive rider in her age group. To celebrate her 10th birthday and to thank the Meningitis Trust which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and which has … Read more
It’s about this time in the road.cc and Evans Cycles Fantasy Tour de France that you’ll probably be looking at your team – like we are – and wondering where it all went wrong. Maybe you picked Voeckler but binned him for Sunday’s stage. Maybe you didn’t think Thor and Phillipe had the legs for … Read more
You might have thought that with cranks, hubs, chains and, more recently, pedals all being tapped for power information that the bike innovators had run out of places to stick a strain gauge. But you’d be wrong: enter the Zone from Dublin-based Brim Brothers, which is a cleat-based power measurement system.Scheduled to launch ‘sometime in … Read more
Well it’s had its ups and its downs and it’s deposited us here: what a first week of the Tour de France we’ve had. Voeckler in yellow, and few would deny that he’s been top value for it. Hushovd riding like every stage is a sprint stage and Gilbert riding a three-week tour like it’s … Read more
Alexander Vinokourov’s often controversial career appears to be over, cut short after the Kazakh rider fractured his femur after falling into a ravine with 100km left to ride of today’s Stage 9 from Issoire to St Flour.This year was to have been the 37-year-old’s final participation in the Tour de France as he prepared to … Read more
Thomas Voeckler of Europcar is the surprise leader of the Tour de France this evening after the peloton, made nervous by a crash that saw several riders crash out of the race, let a break stay away on Stage 9 of the race from Issoire to St Flour today. The Frenchman, who spent ten days … Read more
Rider safety is back in the spotlight at the Tour de France this evening, with Vaconsleil-DCM rider Johnny Hoogerland claiming “we can still be happy that we’re alive” after he was catapulted into a barbed wire fence when a French TV car veered into the path of Team Sky rider Juan Antonio Flecha and knocked … Read more
