Here’s a great bike video, Chris Akrigg’s first week riding a fixed bike, it’s proof that good bike handlers can ride anything, and that there’s nothing like spending your formative years riding trials and BMX to sharpen up your handling skills and elevate your pain threshold. Akrigg is world class trials rider and is sponsored by … Read more
The River Wandle is the setting for a free cycle ride in South West London which will see families saddling up and discovering the joy of riverside cycling this Sunday. The ride is part of the Skyride scheme and is a gentle one hour ride ideal for young families. A number of mass-participation Skyrides have … Read more
Council chiefs in Weymouth appear to be backing down on their threat to prosecute any cyclist breaking their recently imposed seafront cycling ban. As previously reported on road.cc the council and police said they were cracking down on anyone caught cycling on Weymouth seafront after receiving an increasing number of complaints about the number of … Read more
A leading cycling group is urging cyclists who see drivers illegally using mobile phones to report them to the police. Driving while using a mobile phone has been an offence for a number of years now and it has long rankled with both cyclists and other drivers that so many motorist continue to flout the … Read more
Colourful components are all the rage amongst the single speed and fixer fraternity and Gusset’s slink half-link design certainly won’t disappoint those looking for a great value chain delivering comparable performance to the bigger players. However, the weight penalty may deter some. If fancy colours aren’t your thing and you just want a well-priced half-link … Read more
Do you tear your hair out when you have to wait for the next tube because you can’t fit your bike on the one that’s just pulled in? Well thanks to a young designer that could be a thing of the past. Because young designer Dominic Hargreaves has created a fold-up bike which has been … Read more
The second women-only cycle event, Pedal it Pink, will take place at the National Watersports Centre at Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham on October 25 in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign. Organisers are on the look out for ladies from Nottingham and the Midlands to challenge themselves to cycle a marathon – 26.2 miles – or … Read more
Bike Blenheim Palace, launched last year, returns to the Oxfordshire seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, and Sir Winston Churchill’s birthplace, on Sunday 4 October, with new events including a sportive ride through the scenic Cotswolds countryside and cyclo-cross races around a 1.25-mile circuit in the palace grounds.Events returning from 2008 include the 20km time … Read more
The aeroflo race suit by up and coming UK performance sports clothing company Zone 3 brings a host of new ideas to the Triathlon and Duathlon arena.I have raced in this suit four times now, twice in duathlons and twice in triathlons, and to be honest I have nothing but praise for the aeroflo suit. … Read more
Olympic medallists Ed Clancy and Rob Hayles will be among 70 elite cyclists at the annual Warwick Cycle Races next month. Clancy was gold medallist in the Beijing team pursuit while Hayles won silver and bronze medals at Athens in 2004 in the team pursuit and Madison events and earlier this month he won the … Read more
