A former international showjumper branded a “bully” in court by his own mother has been jailed after deliberately hitting a cyclist, leaving him for dead, and then trying to get a stable lad to help him cover up the incident.Last September, 22-year-old Christopher Robertson of Chiddingfold, Surrey, deliberately hit 66-year-old former IT consultant Leslie Smith … Read more
Police in Cambridge are urging cyclists to mark their bicycles after an average of nearly 11 bicycles a day were reported stolen in the university city during October.Just two of the 338 bicycles were reunited with their owners, according to Cambridge News, as thieves targeted new students at the start of the academic year.Lewis Herbert, … Read more
Former Euskadi rider Agustin Sagasti, who won the team its first ever victory during the 1994 Tour of the Basque Country, has been found dead at his home in what is being treated as an apparent suicide. The news comes just days after Belgian cyclist Dimitri De Fauw took his own life.Sagasti had reportedly been … Read more
Cycling Australia has annouunced that Stuart O’Grady is due to be released from hospital in Valencia today after collapsing at the city’s MotoGP circuit on Sunday. The cyclist collapsed and suffered a seizure shortly after completing a “hot lap” of the circuit, riding pillion to former Moto GP rider Randy Mamola.O’Grady told Cycling Australia: “”When … Read more
Paramo’s Quito jacket offers comfort and protection for wet weather tourists, commuters and those looking for a multi-purpose jacket.Strictly speaking this isn’t a dedicated cycling jacket. Designed as a multi-activity jacket, the Quito does, nonetheless, offer a very useful package for the cyclist, especially those looking for all day comfort and performance. It’s the sort … Read more
In 2007 Sustrans’ Connect2 won the TV vote to bring £50million from the Big Lottery Fund to 79 communities across the UK to create networks for everyday journeys for people travelling by bike or foot. And one such project has moved a step closer to completion. Local people came out in force to support plans … Read more
Joe Mizereck, whose website www.3feetplease.com has been one of the driving forces behind getting a three-foot minimum distance passed into law in 14 states in the US, has thrown his weight behind UK cyclists campaigning for Britain to adopt the more generous minimum passing distance of 1.5 metres which applies in a number of other … Read more
We were riding up a steep hill on a narrow lane. It was windy and raining. The road was covered in a carpet of leaves, which made for lurching wheel-spins when standing on the pedals. Half way up the hill was a cattle grid, its metal bars as slippery as ice under the wet foliage. … Read more
Energetic children will pedal to a Shrewsbury school in their droves to mark the launch of a nationwide project to get youngsters cycling. The youngsters at Radbrook Primary are expected to get on their bikes for the first in a series of events across Shrewsbury to celebrate the arrival of the Sustrans Bike It project.The … Read more
Councillors in Portsmouth have given the go-ahead to a new seafront bike path in Southsea in the face of opposition from local traders.The £138,000 scheme, on the promenade side of Eastway Esplanade from Henderson Road to South Parade Pier, will see the present diagonal car parking spaces replaced with parallel parking, resulting in the loss … Read more
