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Bikes in plastic, it’s fantastic… plus convert regular shoes into cycling shoes with these nifty cleat adapters, pedalling in squares on Elite’s curious smart trainer, Lazer’s new smart helmets + loads more from Eurobike 2024
As is the case every year at the continent’s biggest bike show, there has been no shortage of intriguing cycling tech at Eurobike 2024 in Frankfurt: bar tape that supposedly cools you down, a 16-speed groupset, the most talked-about valve since John Dunlop was kicking about, plus a whole host of more cool cycling stuff to … Read more
On your bike! How did the politicians who made questionable comments about cycling get on at the general election?
The dust is starting to settle on the general election, Keir Starmer the new Prime Minister and Labour enjoying a landslide victory to take a huge majority into the House of Commons next week.Let’s face it, despite relentless culture war noise around cycling in recent times, cycling and active travel were never prominent during the election … Read more
Mark Cavendish makes history, Dylan Groenewegen’s bizarre (and stage-winning) aero beak, and the weirdest things we’ve ever seen at the Tour de France
We’re almost a week into the 2024 Tour de France, so to celebrate – and inspired by Dylan Groenewegen’s peculiar, Batman-inspired aero beak – in the latest episode of the road.cc Podcast, we decided to unbuckle the Grande Boucle and focus on the strangest, daftest, and most crazy things, both on and off the bike, … Read more
Got the nose (and wallet) to sniff out a Tour de France stage win? Dylan Groenewegen’s bizarre Scicon Batman aero ‘beak’ finally available to buy… for just £300 – but why was it banned in the first place?
After days of ridicule and countless online jokes and memes, Dylan Groenewegen, Jayco AlUla, and Scicon ultimately had the last laugh in Dijon on Thursday, when the Dutch champion outsprinted the field to win his first Tour de France stage for two years – while wearing his bizarre and widely ridiculed aero ‘beak’.Although it didn’t … Read more
“A TV camera is there to capture images and not to influence the race”: Mark Cavendish blasts Tour de France motorbike rider for putting him “out the back” after mechanical, as record-breaking sprinter fined for drafting behind team car
Tour de France record-breaker Mark Cavendish has accused a Tour de France TV motorbike rider of interfering with his chase back to the peloton following a mechanical during stage six of the race to Dijon, a prolonged and controversial return to the bunch that ultimately saw the Astana sprinter fined for drafting behind his team … Read more