The Safecam Partnership which manages the speed camera network across the Avon & Somerset police area has announced that the fixed camera network in Somerset and North Somerset council areas will be switched of following a reduction in government funding. As well as the camera switch off the local Safety Camera Partnership’s management team is … Read more
BBC Radio 4 has today launched a two-week, ten part series called On Your Bike, presented by Martin Ellis and addressing the history of the bicycle chronologically in 15-minute episodes.All episodes air at 1545 – a handy time to take a quarter of an hour out of the day for to listen in with a … Read more
One of the most eye-catching ranges at last week’s Core Bike Show in Northamptonshire was from Italy’s Dedacciai, with many models now widely available in the UK for the first time.We’re keen to get aboard the new Super Scuro which comes in IM600 carbon fibre, and like several of Deda’s carbon road frames it uses … Read more
Shiny things that go round so’s your bike can move along? there were plenty of them in evidence at the CORE Bike show, as you might expect. Here’s a quick round-up of some of the hoops we saw on our trawl round the show last week…EastonEaston are another company that are throwing their weight behind … Read more
Tom Boonen of Quickstep, three times a winner of the Tour of Qatar, is back in the race leader’s golden jersey today after winning Stage 1 of the race, covering 145.5km from Dukhan to Al Khor Corniche, ahead of Garmin-Cervélo’s Heinrich Haussler, the Belgian proving himself the strongest finisher of a 15-man group that contested … Read more
As far as the national media is concerned we appear to have entered open season on cycling, with the Daily Telegraph the latest organisation to join in the fun. The newspaper gets its teeth into a health-and-safety-gone-mad style rant about guidance dossiers compiled by UK police forces to be used by officers on bikes.Different forces … Read more
Efforts by the UCI to phase in a ban on the use of race radios have become the focal point of a power struggle between pro cycling’s top teams and the sport’s governing body, which resulted in the start of yesterday’s opening race in the 2011 Mallorca Challenge, the Trofeo Palma, being delayed by 20 … Read more
In setting out to build a bike capable of taking the rigours of fixed freestyle riding with their new Persona, Identiti have also produced a bike that’s a great, rugged round town urban machine.Fixed gear freestyle is definitely gaining popularity, it has progressed somewhat from the circus balancing acts better suited to performers in leotards … Read more
In Edinburgh the use of solar-powered lighting is being mooted for ten miles of canal towpath, reports the Scotsman.The idea is part of a new plan to encourage more people to use the Union Canal towpath in the city after dark. British Waterways Scotland, the body responsible for managing Scotland’s canal network, is discussing with … Read more
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson and co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond may have had their knuckles rapped over recent comments about Mexicans that resulted in the BBC issuing a formal apology, but happily for the doyen of the petrolhead community, there is one minority it still seems okay for him to disparage with impunity … Read more
