A new report from the Cycle to Work Alliance has highlighted the role that the Cycle to Work scheme is playing in encouraging people to take up cycling, outlining the benefits that is providing for their employers and the environment.The trade body’s Behavioral Impact Analysis was compiled following a survey of more than 44,500 employees … Read more
The UCI has announced details of this year’s inaugural World Cycling Tour (UWCT), comprising a series of events around the world, one of which may be in the UK, that will allow amateur cyclists of all ages to qualify for the 2011 Amateur Cycling World Championship, to be held in the Belgian region of Liège … Read more
Tributes have been paid to an up-and-coming art curator who died as a result of injuries sustained after he was involved in a collision with a lorry while cycling in East London last week. Daniel Cox, aged 28, who lived in Clapton, died at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel on Friday, two days after … Read more
Heinrich Haussler of Garmin-Cervelo is the new leader of the Tour of Qatar, which finishes on Friday, taking his second successive stage of the race after a puncture at exactly the wrong time saw Tom Boonen’s hopes dashed of winning the race for the fourth time.Haussler held off HTC-Highroad’s Mark Renshaw, who now appears to … Read more
Following last week’s news that he Northern Ireland Assembly had voted through the second reading of a private member’s bill proposing that cycle helmets be made compulsory in the province, a member of the medical profession in the Republic of Ireland is calling on politicians there to follow suit.Speaking to the Irish Medical Times, Dr … Read more
The business that developed the innovative Cyclehoop, which turns existing pieces of street furniture into bicycle parking facilities, has designed an attention-grabbing set of bike stands for Lambeth Council that spell out the borough’s names, with each stand incorporating a different letter within its design.Two sets of the bespoke racks have been installed in the … Read more
Documents leaked to the Public and Commercial Services Union reveal, claims the union, that the government is considering closing driving test centres across the country and, claims the union, privatising the driving test process by using “delegated examiners” from private companies to conduct tests.In a meeting last November, the minutes of which the PCSU has … Read more
The Rapha Wind Jacket (formerly the Stowaway Jacket) is made from a windproof, water resistant and extremely breathable 100% Nylon fabric, the cut of its jib is classic cycling with a long-cut back for a better fit on the bike and a dropped tail too, the sleeves are tailored and long enough to be stretched … Read more
The head of the Italian cycling federation has described Riccardo Riccò as “a young man who is ill on the inside,” consumed by the pursuit of “fame and success at all costs and by any means possible,” making him “lose touch with reality” after it emerged that the Vacansoleil rider’s admission to hospital in a … Read more
Better late than never snacks ‘n’ beverages have been taken (coffee + 9 Bar with a mini panettone chaser since you ask… saved a bit of panettone for tomorrow) and the fickle finger of fate has done her work and we have four winners of some of Lizard Skins very finest bar tape in the … Read more
