An Australian lawyer who struck and killed a cyclist but drove off without stopping in order to arrange legal representation in an infamous case the became the subject of public inquiry, did not act unprofessionally……or at least not in the view of the South Australia Legal Practitioners Conduct Board reports the Herald Sun.The case concerns … Read more
For a casual top that will keep your body at a stable temperature, it’s hard to beat something made from 100% merino wool. The Commuting Wool WSD Top from Bontrager manages to combine a genuinely good looking piece of kit, that you’d be more than happy to wear off the bike with jeans, with levels … Read more
The list of those spotted and sometimes convicted of doing things they shouldn’t on Britain’s motorway network is extensive and bizarre.Who can forget the Kenyan cyclists caught going for a training ride on the M61 before the Manchester Commonwealth Games back in 2002? Or those with longer memories may even recall their trailblazing fellow African … Read more
There are black carbon bikes and there are black carbon bikes* but if If bike tests were beauty contests then the new Comtat Aristo would be heading for a perfect score even before we threw a leg over it. They’re not though so although its classically restrained looks drew a chorus of appreciative oohs when … Read more
Arg. Time is flashing by again and it’s amazing how just a few days can make or destroy a sense of control or progress… Today it feels a bit like I’m on a runaway freight train with work and personal commitments overtaking training a bit over the last week. It’s late Thursday and I realise that … Read more
British Cycling today unveiled a new cycling activity weekend taking place in and around Salisbury and Wiltshire and designed to complement the newest round of the Premier Calendar.Acknowledging to the traditional role that tea-stops play in Britain’s leisure cycling heritage, the Twinings Pro-Am Tour will take place over the August bank holiday weekend around the … Read more
If cycle-commuting in Cardiff is not helped by poor enforcement of parking regulations on cycle lanes, other commuting modes in the city appear just as unsatisfactory according to a survey by Cardiff Business School. The survey of 648 workers at companies including Admiral, PwC, Legal and General, Tata and Tesco found that employees’ biggest concerns … Read more
SRAM will be giving us an insight in to what goes on behind the scenes at the world’s top cycle races this season in a series of films Chasing Jason, their European Road Sponsorship Manager, Jason Phillips as he provides technical support to SRAM sponsored riders at races around the world.In episode one we go … Read more
A 65-year old lorry driver arrested on suspicion of causing the death by careless or dangerous driving of a 20-year old female cyclist in the London borough of Camden earlier this week, had been bailed.The man was arrested at the scene of an incident on Tuesday in which the woman died as a result of … Read more
Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas is in cracking form at the moment, a top-ten finish in last weekend’s Tour of Flanders coming just a week and a half after he came second behind the surprise winner of that race, Saxo-Bank Sungard’s Nick Nuyens, in the Dwars Door Vlaanderen. Here in an exclusive interview with road.cc, the … Read more
