It won’t just be the latest trends, bikes and accessories being launched at the Cycle Show this week. An exciting new programme of challenge rides is also being unveiled by national charity Action Medical Research at the2009 event. The children’s health charity’s packed Take Action 2010 schedule features more than 20 events, catering for both … Read more
Wouldn’t it be nice to know which roads were best to avoid when going for a ride on your bike? Or maybe which roads seemed to have a greater number of motorists who harassed cyclists. Well that’s the aim of new website www.RoadGuardian.com. The website for reporting, marking and sharing the geo-locations for cycling incidents … Read more
The days are getting shorter, the leaves are turning brown. Autumn is definitely here. You may’ve hung up your racing wheels until 2010, but there’s still fun to be had on the end-of-season sportive circuit as David Else found out at Blenheim Palace.This year’s Bike Blenheim Palace festival of cycling included family rides, cyclo-cross, stunt-cycling, … Read more
Olympic gold medallist and sprint-king Jamie Staff will be live on the Cyclevox stand for an exclusive Speaker Signing Session at the Cycle Show this Sunday. The session is set to launch Cyclevox Speakers, a new part of the media and sponsorship consultancy.And with the announcement that Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will be making a … Read more
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has penned a three year deal with Anheuser-Busch InBev to be the spokesman and ambassador for the company’s Michelob Ultra brand of beer.Anheuser-Busch InBev, which is based in Belgium, said Armstrong is the perfect spokesman for Michelob Ultra, which targets health-minded active drinkers, as the brand sponsors cycling … Read more
You may remember – or even have entered – the Canon photo competition that ran during the Tour of Britain. Everyone was free to go and snap the race and send in their submissions, and thousands of you did. Well now the race is over the judges have been poring over the entries and have … Read more
It has finally been said. What we’ve always known to be true. Women prefer men who enjoy cycling as a hobby to football or rugby fanatics. For all the projects to try and get more people cycling for a greener UK, for the men at least, campaigners should just be using this line. Men would … Read more
The coaching set up that helped British track cyclists become such a dominant force in Olympic and world championship events has bagged another victory with the announcement that British Cycling will be developing a coaching programme to raise the standards of international cycle coaching across the world.A ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ between the two bodies was … Read more
Bar end LED lights are nothing new but have largely been limited to tiny static/flashing bulbs inserted into road bike end plugs. By contrast, Torch’s imaginatively christened bar end beamer lights look like something straight out of Blakes7 with their combined white/ red lenses boasting greater surface area for improved visibility. However, the pronounced design … Read more
