The ol’ Tour de France compos are coming thick and fast now. How d’you fancy a crack at winning a brand new Giro Aeon helmet worth £199? Thought so!The Aeon is the talented offspring of the Prolight and the Ionos, a fully adjustable super-lightweight lid that weighs less than 200g. Our Mat tested it back … Read more
You may already have entered out Schwag Grab for a chance to ride the cobbles of Flanders with Geraint Thomas, but if you want to guarantee a meeting with the rising star, read on. Riders taking part in the first Cross Pennine 100 event in aid of children’s charity Action Medical Research on Sunday, July … Read more
You might have seen the ads for this game right here on road.cc, but we thought we’d point you in the direction of Oakley’s You Vs site, which is kicking off with Mark Cavendish with other famous sporting faces – Golfer Rory McIlroy, World Rally legend Sebastien Loeb and Cricket’s own Kevin Pietersen are lined … Read more
Calvados may be the local tipple, but Team Sky are sensibly sticking to Champagne – and just a glass at that – to celebrate their first Tour de France stage win this evening. Edvald Boasson Hagen was the man who got across the line first in Lisieux following a perfect leadout from Geraint Thomas, but … Read more
Summatory’s Hermida is a great base layer for keeping you dry and comfortable over summer. It’s made from polypropylene (63%), polyamide (25%) and polyester (12%). Polypropylene sometimes gets a bad press but some of my favourite, most-effective base layers are made from this fabric.For a start, polypropylene is extremely light. This sleeveless top weighs just … Read more
Remember those Mavic prototype wheels we showed you on Tyler Farrar’s new Cervélo the other day? Garmin Cervélo used the front one (paired up with a disc at the back) during the team time trial and bagged the win, and Mavic have stuck up a little vid on YouTube about it.Mavic have several Cosmic Carbone … Read more
Guildford station was the setting today for an innovative experiment in cycle-rail commuting – Britain’s (and surely the world’s) first self service Brompton bicycle rental scheme, the Brompton Bike Dock. Fifty folding bikes are for hire at the station through a new membership scheme. Joining the scheme costs £50 for a year and that gets you … Read more
More than a millennium after Norsemen settled in Normandy to give the region its name, Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen led a second Viking invasion this afternoon, getting a great leadout from Geraint Thomas to win Stage 6 of the 2011 Tour de France in Lisieux. Fellow Norwegian Thor Hushovd was third and retains the … Read more
Brooks’ leather bar tape has appeal beyond retro builds and classic bikes, thanks to its longevity and good looks, but it’s not the comfiest bar tape around, or the cheapest. At £40 (a bit less if you shop around), you expect some quality tape and that’s what you get, crafted from leather and perforated with … Read more
Crossrail, the project which will see the creation of a new 118km east-west rail link across London including twin-bore 21 km tunnels under the capital, has delivered the 1000th safety awareness training course for its contractor lorry drivers.It’s a welcome step, given that at its peak, around 300 lorry loads of excavated material will be … Read more
