A £10m pledge made by the Labour administration to help cyclists integrate their journeys with the rail network has been overturned.In September 2009 the Department for Transport trumpeted the initiative championed by the then Transport Secretary Lord Adonis, as money “to transform facilities for cyclists at rail stations and encourage healthier, greener travel.”A total of … Read more
Team Leopard-Trek isn’t the only ProTeam squad that has presented a 2011 line-up of which much is expected in the coming season, with Liquigas-Cannondale yesterday introducing its team in Milan, with high hopes of winning two of cycling’s three Grand Tours for the second year in a row.Unlike the Luxembourg outfit, it isn’t a new … Read more
When used alongside a Kurt Kinetic turbo trainer this computer is able to give you a power measurement plus a whole load of other performance information.It’s able to do this because the trainer is engineered to be consistent. The resistance is exactly the same every time you get on, regardless of temperature, so you can get … Read more
Leopard Trek may be a super team but it’s good to know that no matter how big an outfit the essential nature of the team launch still asserts itself as these pictures by Geoff Waugh, Trek’s official photographer at the Leopard launch show. Geoff’s pictures document the team’s big day and with his usual superb … Read more
You may well have come across Comtat in the last year or so; the London-based boutique brand has been around since 2009, and we tested their Telegraphe model here on road.cc in March of last year. But there’s big changes afoot at Comtat towers, and for 2011 the Comtat range will be hand built in … Read more
The Department for Transport is set to make it a criminal offence to keep a car without it being insured, irrespective of whether or not it is being driven, but the head of the motoring organisation AA warns that the proposed law will miss the intended target.Under current legislation, only cars being driven on the … Read more
A Scottish bike charity, the Bike Station, which refurbishes and sells old bikes, has just received its 25,000th machine… and it was something of a ‘find.’The British-built ladies’ steel bike dates from the 1950s and the charity’s Matt MacDonald told the BBC News website : “We are very proud of this bike as it clearly … Read more
You’ll probably know Abus as the German lock-meisters but the Dryve is part of their march into the world of bags and helmets. The Dryve seems to be designed with the British cyclist in mind, made as it is from waterproof sturdy and durable 1000D Kodra, with waterproof seams, waterproof external zips and with a … Read more
Spanish former mountain biker Alberto Leon, recently implicated in the Operacion Galgo doping investigation, has been found dead at his home at San Lorenzo de Escorial near Madrid in what police are treating as an apparent suicide.The 37-year-old, who is believed to have hanged himself, was one of 14 people arrested under Operacion Galgo last … Read more
