It’s less than a month now until the riders roll out to contest the Tour de France. It’s the biggest race in the cycling calendar and likely to be the most hotly contested in our road.cc Fantasy Cycling game, brought to you in association with Evans Cycles. We want to get as many people playing … Read more
In Part 1 of our Graeme Obree interview, published on Saturday, the former Hour record holder and world individual pursuit champion spoke to road.cc about that record, his new training manual, and how his personal struggle with depression had led to him seeking to help others afflicted by that conditon as well as dependency on … Read more
Academics claim that attempts by successive governments to get more people cycling have failed to have an effect on the wider public, who continue to consider bicycles as being either something suitable only for children, those without the means to buy and run a car, or strange types clothed in Lycra. They identified the danger … Read more
You won’t have seen Canyon bikes in the shops because the German brand sell direct to the consumer, cutting out the middle man. This Ultimate CF SLX 8.0 is built around the same carbon fibre frameset that’s used by the Omega Pharma-Lotto pro team, and it’s equipped with Shimano’s top-level Dura-Ace groupset. On the face … Read more
Lars Boom of Rabobank, a former world cyclo-cross champion and also an expert time trialler, won today’s Prologue of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphiné in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, with Alexander Vinokourov of Astana second and Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins third.At just 5.4km, today’s course may have been short, but lots of twists and turns as well as traffic … Read more
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Muc Off’s silicone shine. Dubbed the workshop in a can, it harmlessly restores that seductive showroom lustre to everything from Chrome to carbon. That said, good quality furniture polishes are markedly cheaper and will achieve comparable effects without betraying clandestine front-room fettling. Silicone Shine’s exact composition isn’t clear but it … Read more
There’s something about long climbs that goes to the very heart of cycling. Forcing those cranks round as the lungs scream for mercy and the legs turn to that curious mixture of concrete and jelly, the mind wants only one thing more than for the pain to stop: to conquer this bloody hill.It’s a matter … Read more
With less than two weeks to go before the 2011 edition of RIDE24, the UK’s only 24-hour cycling endurance track event, organisers Action Medical Research have revealed that it has been selected as the first UK event to Race Across America (RAAM) qualifier status for solo riders wanting to demonstrate that they are up to … Read more
Our Fantasy Cycling game, brought to you in association with Evans Cycles, is back this weekend with the start of the Criterium du Dauphiné, one of the traditional build-up races to the Tour de France and as usual we’ve been speaking to our spy in the peloton, Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas, to get some tips … Read more
If you’ve read his book, The Flying Scotsman, or seen the eponymous film based on it and starring Jonny Lee Miller, you’ll be familiar with the chief elements of Graeme Obree’s life story.Twice holder of the Hour record on a bike he built himself that famously included parts of an old washing machine, a history … Read more
