A bit late for tiffin, truth be told: we’ll spoil our tea. Nonetheless we’re pushing on through because without sweetmeats there can be no draw for this week’s schwag. Once again we’ve dusted off the plumbline thing with the crystal on the end and asked the spirit guides to pick some lucky winners*, and those … Read more
Developers of an “eco town” development in West Sussex are being urged not to neglect motorists in their proposals to create a community built around green homes and sustainable travel principles.Tony Dignum, chairman of the Chichester Society, has welcomed plans to encourage people to switch to environmentally friendly modes of travel such as cycling, walking … Read more
Controversial Vacansoleil rider Riccardo Riccò insists that he is older, wiser and most importantly riding clean as he prepares for the 2011 season which marks his re-entry to the top ranks of the peloton following his 20-month ban for doping.Riccò signed to the Dutch outfit, then a Professional Continental team but now racing under a … Read more
A motorist who hit a cyclist at 55mph and drove off, leaving his victim in a wheelchair for several months and still unable to walk without the use of crutches, has been jailed for 70 days and banned from driving for a year.Dr Andrew Markwick, an astrophysicist at the University of Manchester, had been returning … Read more
A planned £27 million velodrome in Northern Ireland is one of five high-profile sports facility projects to have fallen victim to £50 million in government cuts affecting the province.Besides the velodrome, which would have been the first such facility in Northern Ireland and was to be built in Downpatrick, other projects that have now been … Read more
Leopard Trek rider Frank Schleck has undergone successful surgery to have a metal plate removed from his collarbone, inserted following his crash on Stage 3 of the Tour de France last July which left him prostrate on the Paris-Roubaix cobbles the race visited that day.In a statement, the Luxembourg-based team confirmed that the rider had … Read more
Lance Armstrong, currently riding the final international race of his career in the Santos Tour Down Under, has been using his Twitter account to respond to fresh allegations of doping published on the website of American magazine Sports Illustrated.As reported on road.cc earlier this week, the article that appeared on the Sports Illustrated website on … Read more
Looking for a solid performing traditional racing bike rather than a sportive armchair? Read on the Wilier Escape might be what you are looking for……I’ve never been a romantic about Italy’s prestigious history in bike design and manufacture. Paying over the odds for something naffer and Italian has never made sense to me. That’s why … Read more
Cameron Meyer of Garmin-Cervélo is the new leader of the Santos Tour Down Under after today’s Stage 4 from Norwood to Strathalbyn, opening up a ten-second gap on his closest rival that, with just two stages to come, may well be enough to secure him the overall victory.Meyer, who is a multiple World and Commonwealth … Read more
A hairdresser from York has won more than £7,000 in damages nearly five years after a pothole caused her to crash her bike, leaving her jaw fractured in two places, following a long-running legal battle that ended up in the Court of Appeal in London.Lauren Wilkinson was aged 17 in May 2006 when the accident … Read more
