Tomorrow, the streets around London’s historic Smithfield meat market will be thronged with cycling fans enjoying what has now become an annual festival of bike racing through city streets usually deserted at the weekend, with the IG Markets London Nocturne. While most of those fans will have made a short trip across the capital, competitors … Read more
Liverpool City Council is planning to extend 20mph speed limit zones to cover 70% of the city’s streets. Currently, 20mph zones are in place close to schools and apply to 30% of Liverpool’s roads, but councilors say that increasing coverage could save more than £5 million a year through reducing accidents.The Liverpool Daily Post reports … Read more
Oxfordshire cyclists have come out on top ahead of cars, buses and motorcycles in a commuter challenge arranged by local cycling campaign group, Cyclox. Ten cyclists took part in the challenge from the town of Eynsham to Oxford’s Radcliffe square, a distance of around 7 miles. Setting off at 7.45am, all the cyclists arrived at … Read more
Despite silly moniker and surrealist marketing blurb, Knog’s Pig Dog 15.5 is one of the finest town satchels I’ve come across in a very long time. It’s not a messenger sack but a sophisticated, urbane bag made from pillow-soft 1200 denier cotton duck complete with taped seams and extended flaps to keep the elements out … Read more
This lightweight windproof packs down small enough to fit into a jersey pocket and makes a massive difference to your body temperature when you need to keep the cool air out. The main fabric is a really skinny polyester that blocks the wind almost totally. It’s actually made from recycled bottles, if you want to … Read more
First year pro John Degenkolb of HTC-Highroad this afternoon won his second stage of this year’s Criterium du Dauphiné, the 22-year-old German edging out Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen to win a hard-fought bunch sprint in Mâcon with Saxo Bank-SunGard’s JJ Haedo third. Bradley Wiggins came home safely in the bunch and retains the overall lead.Garmin-Cervelo … Read more
Anyone that’s completed the Fred Whitton Challenge will know that it’s a tough old cookie: 112 miles and six Lakeland passes, including the daddy of them all: Hardknott Pass, with its killer 30% sections. It’s enough of a challenge to do it once, but ten times in a row? on ten consecutive days? That’s the … Read more
New figures obtained by car accessories and bicycle retailer Halfords show that more bikes are reported stolen to the Metropolitan Police each year than any other police force in the UK. No surprises there, but road.cc’s own analysis of the data shows that ignoring the unique case of the City of London, it’s Cambridgeshire that … Read more
These Castelli S Tre gloves don’t quite live up to their ‘revolutionary’ billing but they’re grippy, comfy and well made, as well as looking classy. The revolutionary bit is the new I-Vario™ padding system. What’s that? It’s a series of rubber ribs of varying depths that are bonded to the leather palm of the mitt … Read more
CTC has named Cheshire West and Chester the country’s top highways authority when it comes to fixing potholes, with all 47 defects reported to it via the national cyclists’ organisation’s Fill That Hole website getting speedily repaired.It wasn’t the only highways authority with a 100% record – Newham, West Lothian, Brent, Redbridge and Luton also … Read more
