You’d be forgiven for thinking that the start of the 2011 Giro d’Italia is the biggest thing happening in Italy today. Incredibly, it’s not even the main event in Turin. This weekend, the city is in the throes of a massive party, but cycling fans are in the minority, most revellers being former soldiers from … Read more
Team GB’s 2012 Olympic cycling kit has gone on sale at Wiggle and will soon be available in other bike shops too – you can use British Cycling’s handy Where-to-buy-GB-Cycling-Team-Kit page to find your local stockist. So if you fancy looking like Bradley Wiggins – from the neck down at least – now’s your chance. … Read more
The 2011 Giro d’Italia gets under way in Turin on Saturday, and some very tough stages particularly in the final week or so could see an epic battle develop for the maglia rosa – perhaps even going to the final day’s individual time trial in Milan. Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas, who rode the 2008 Giro … Read more
Beware of thieving magpies, because the Birzman Feexman Stainless is one shiny multi-tool.Multi-tools tend to fall into one of two categories, either the Chinese puzzle type, where the whole thing is folded in on itself and you need a black-belt in origami to extract the half-inch micro-drive mouse flange extractor or the flat variety where … Read more
We’ve just received details of the route of this year’s closed-road four-stage Alpine Challenge which takes place from 7-11 September this year. The event, now in its second year, will be based in Annecy and the four stages are spread over three days, taking in some big climbs to the south and east of the … Read more
We spent a happy day in the sun this week having a look round the new 110km course for the Mountain Mayhem Sportive on Sunday 19 June. We’ll be there on the day too, but this was out first chance to try out the slightly longer and climbier route for 2011. We took our video … Read more
Bont, the Australian cycle shoe maker whose Crono time trial shoe was last week banned by the UCI are not going to take it lying down. “We are going to fight this, treat me differently and discriminate against my company and I won’t accept it,” the company’s chief executive, Steve Nemeth told road.cc.Bont argues that the … Read more
The Velo Senso Miles saddle is part of Velo’s competition range, and at 260g it’s just about light enough to be considered for a race bike, although you can go a lot lower than that. It’s pretty comfy too, the flexible carcass and honeycomb gel padding doing a very decent job of filtering out the … Read more
Cycle racing made a long overdue return to Victoria Park in Bath this past Wednesday night, in the first of a four round crit series. Organised by four local clubs (Somer Valley CC, Bath CC, VC Walcott and Avonlea-Treasure RT) and supported by BC and the local council, this series promises to bring exciting racing … Read more
Our man Mat is out in Italy right now for the launch of Cannondale new SuperSix Evo ahead of the Giro on Staurday. And he’s sent us back some early shots of the bike and taken it for a test ride – the first of many over the coming days. Probably most eye-catching of the … Read more
