Two weeks to go.Two weeks to go.I’m well aware I just wrote that twice. But it still hasn’t really sunk in that i’ll soon set off on my journey from the UK to South Africa. I thought repeating it might help. It hasn’t.Two weeks to go!So I suppose this is a time to reflect on just how long two weeks … Read more
James Cracknell and his Hot Chillee team mates: Steve Golla, Phil Sykes, and Jerone Walters have set a new End to End relay record for the 842 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats, an amazing 34:54:04. Before they set out the team had said their were aiming to cover the distance in a sub 40 … Read more
Bradley Wiggins today sealed his first professional stage race overall victory by winning the Jayco Herald Sun Tour. In doing so, he became only the third British rider to win the race, held in the Australian state of Victoria, after Malcolm Elliott in 1985 and Paul Mann in 1993.Team politics played a part in Wiggo’s … Read more
There’s no doubting Pedro’s levers are amongst the best I’ve come across, making short work of most tyre/rim combinations and very keenly priced to boot. However, they’re not as effective as telescopic designs on really tight beads and one of our test levers snapped clean in two while battling my expedition wheelset. Luckily, a lifetime, … Read more
Things are all starting to come together for Lance Armstrong and his RadioShack team with the announcement that the UCI has granted them a ProTour licence for the next three years, the news comes a day after Asanta gave their team director, Johan Bruyneel permission to leave… just as well really because he already appears … Read more
The Galway Transportation Unit is set to finalise its bid for up to €20m from a ‘pot’ of €50m central funding available under the Smarter Travel initiative that could transform Galway with a new sustainable transport system. The money would be used to implement, among other things, policies to increase the use of cycling and … Read more
Bradley Wiggins has slammed the planned shake-up to the program for the 2012 London Olympics, saying that it would kill off track endurance cycling. Cycling’s world governing body said last month it was planning a radical shakeup of the Olympic Games track schedule which could mean female cyclists gain parity with their male counterparts. Currently, … Read more
Storck’s Aero 2 prototype time trial bike was one of the undoubted stars of the bike show season and we were lucky enough to get talked around it for the video below by the man himself, Marcus Storck.Designed by Marcus Storck for Ironman triathlete Faris Sultan – who is sponsored by Storck, the bike was … Read more
“Sorry mate I didn’t see you” is a phrase sadly familiar to cyclists across the country: it’s the stock phrase of the motorist who has just been involved in a near miss with a cyclists. Cycle safety campaigners long ago shortened it to the acronym SMIDSY, and now, as we reported earlier this month, the … Read more
Secondary school pupils in Liverpool could be given a bike instead of a free school bus pass to get to school after a proposal was put forward to Liverpool council. Not only would this mean more health benefits for thousands of kids, but it is hoped the move would also reduce congestion at the school … Read more
