A Cornishman is looking for other cyclists to join him on a 4000 mile ride around the coast of Britain. Andy Miners from the town of Helston is aiming to complete the extreme challenge in 30 days to raise cash for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW), the charity that is building Cornwall’s first children’s hospice, … Read more
Last week we brought you news about Scotland’s £2.25 billion highway maintenance and repair bill and today the Government announced that £100m of extra funding will be made available to councils in England. The money will be distributed across the country, proportionately according to the condition and length of each authority’s road network.Transport Secretary Philip … Read more
Floyd Landis as a biting satirist? It would be as good an option as any for the disgraced Tour de France ‘winner’ but it’s somehow unlikely that he’s behind the string of spoof emails that purport to come from him and his law firm in connection with legal action threatened against the ex-rider by UCI … Read more
The theft of a bike from Cambridgeshire County Council may have been followed by one of the oddest getaways in the history of recorded crime. The “Wobble Bike” was assembled from bits of scrap machines, and has a geometry that only Mr Magoo could be proud of.With its offset wheels and its back-to-front forks it … Read more
On online petition protesting at plans to remove continental style cycle lanes in Brighton has garnered well over 2000 signatures. However, it appears that Brighton and Hove’s Conservative led council is determined to press ahead with their plans, ignoring the wishes of many local cyclists.We reported earlier this month on how the council wants to … Read more
“The timeless pick-up line, ‘Hey lady, you make me wanna wrap my sausage round a pole!’ is as debonair as it is disarmingly effective. The Party Frank is that sausage wrapped around that pole 24-7 and it wants all the ladies to know that nothing’s gunna break its hold”. So says the Knog website of … Read more
Fresh from her exploits on the Manchester track at the weekend Victoria Pendleton was in London on Monday to launch the new Cycletta series, (well, there’s two), of women only mass participation rides this summer she also announced that she expected her compeitive cycling career to end with next summer’s Olympic Games.Speaking at the launch … Read more
It’ll be a short post this week… And not because of any Merckx-inspired Roubaix riding. I’m sitting here with a hot toddy in hand having consumed little other than jelly babies and lucozade for the previous 48 hours… I’m not indulging childhood whims, rather just struck down with the flu (I don’t even think it’s … Read more
There are not many cycling clubs which can claim to be truly multi-disciplinary. A university cycling club can however, which is just one of the many reasons which make them so good. With 50 or so members each year Bath University – Road.cc has in its ranks: roadie tarts, XC whippets and not so whippets, … Read more
South Gloucestershire could become the latest county to switch off its fixed speed cameras following the council’s decision not fund them after April, reports the BBC.The authority would be the second in the south west to do so following a lead set by Somerset council which also said it could not afford to fund its … Read more
