Ben Swift’s brace of stage wins in the Santos Tour Down Under last week have propelled Great Britain to second place in the new UCI WorldTour rankings, published today, with Australia topping the country standings.The Team Sky rider followed his victory in Stage 2 of the six-day race last Wednesday by taking the closing stage … Read more
While the eyes of the cycling world have been on the Tour Down Under in Adelaide over the past week, those eyes of the country’s bicycle thieves have been on another high-profile sporting event taking place there, the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne.According to the newspaper The Age, which is based in Victoria’s capital, … Read more
Leading motoring charity, The RAC Foundation has hid out at remarks by an MP who wants police and prosecutors to get tougher with motorists who kill or injure cyclists. The charity described the comments by Cambridge MP Julian Huppert during a commons debate on road safety as “trying to establish a hierarchy of righteousness” among … Read more
Record-breaking cyclist Pat Kenny has died following a collision with a car on the A38 at Claymills, near Burton-on-Trent, while out cycling.Mr Kenny, aged 72, had spent much of his lifetime in the saddle, clocking up more than 900,000 miles, and in 1980 set a then record for Land’s End to John O’Groats by tricycle … Read more
More names have been added to the list of exhibitors at the inaugural Scottish Bike Show that’ll take place in Glasgow in April.Glasgow BMX manufacturer BSD will be providing a big central BMX display, and Continental will also be there with their huge range of tyres.On the road side of things, Sky Sports journalist and … Read more
These Powerlogic Olympic bib tights are the top tights in the range from Italian company Zero RH, and they’re most notable for the unusual bib section that holds them in place.The lower sections – both the black and the white panels – are made from what Zero RH call Icedry Gold 200 fabric, which is … Read more
Lance Armstrong risks becoming viewed as “a symbol for decades of corruption” within professional cycling, warns the seven-times Tour de France winner’s former mechanic and personal assistant, Mike Anderson.Anderson, a US national who now lives in New Zealand, told the country’s Sunday Star Times newspaper that he had spoken to FDA Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, … Read more
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said that he is considering extending the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, introduced last July to central London and due to expand eastwards to Stratford next year, to boroughs in Outer London.Both Boris Johnson and the critics of his approach to bringing about a “Cycling Revolution” in the capital agree … Read more
National cyclists’ organisation, the CTC has announced a major revamp for its annual programme of CTC Challenge rides with three new rides, the first of which takes place on the 27th of next month in Dorset.Wheels in Wheels, the events company behind the Forest of Dean Spring Classic and a number of other sportives will … Read more
This one is predestined to get the usual Rapha critics all hot under the collar, so as they’ll be toasty warm enough already they don’t need to read any further. For the rest of you the Rapha Winter Collar is a wool mix tubey-scarf thing (yes, there’s brand-name avoidance going on here) to protect the … Read more
