Team Sky’s Dave Brailsford has this evening confirmed that Bradley Wiggins broke his collarbone in a crash 40km from the finish of today’s Stage 7 of the Tour de France, won by Mark Cavendish of HTC-Highroad and, if rumours are to believed, Team Sky as of next season.”Bradley has broken his left collar bone. It … Read more
The race heads into the Massif Central for the first mountains of the 2011 Tour, and has the same start and finish towns as the stage on the 2008 Tour won by Riccardo Riccò, though the Italian was stripped of that victory which was awarded instead to the runner-up, Alejandro Valverde. Later in that year’s … Read more
Mark Cavendish this afternoon won the 17th Tour de France stage of his career in Chatearoux, the town he won his first in, winning a bunch sprint from Lampre-ISD’s Alessandro Petacchi and Omega Pharma Lotto’s Andre Greipel but the big news for British fans is that Bradley Wiggins’ Tour de France is over after the … Read more
If you’re stuck for something to do with the family this summer, why not take advantage of some of the National Trust’s Cycling Festival events? Kicking off on 16th July and running through until 24th July, the festival aims to encourage the enjoyment of National Trust properties and locations on two wheels and includes both … Read more
The Metropolitan Police’s willingness to investigate clear wrongdoing has been severely criticised in light of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Of course it would be good to think that was a one-off aberration under a previous Met. regime and one that had something to do with an unwillingness by detectives at the time … Read more
Hot on the heels of the 2011 Glastonbury Festival being the most cycle friendly ever, with some 500 cyclists choosing two wheeled transport to get to the event this year, Sustrans are running a competition to win tickets to ride to another festival-Shambala. Sustrans have worked closely with Shambala for the two previous years, to promote … Read more
If you see me and I’m not riding my bike, punch me.In a trademark move of over-excitedly agreeing to do something before actually checking the details I’m signed up to do the Haute Route in August. Starting in Geneva it heads to Nice via all the lumpy bits over the course of a week, it’s … Read more
With the Olympics looming ever larger by the minute, and retirement on the horizon after that, it’s hard to imagine that Sir Chris Hoy has time for altruistic thoughts of encouraging more British people to get out and enjoy cycling. Yet, in an interview with the Telegraph it’s clear that it’s a subject close to … Read more
There is concern among doctors treating the Columbian rider Juan Mauricio Soler who suffered serious head injuries in a crash at the Tour of Switzerland, that his brain has been damaged to a greater extent than initially feared.The 2007 Tour de France King of the Mountains was placed in a medically induced coma at a … Read more
With the bumpy terrain of Brittany and Normandy behind them, today’s stage profile is the flattest of the 2011 Tour and even one third into the race the sprinters are beginning to run out of opportunities. As a result, this won’t be a day when a breakaway is allowed to stick.Thought for the DayChateauroux is … Read more
