Councillors in Hartlepool have axed plans for new cycle lanes after the council was forced to find £259,000 savings from its transport budget.The council’s transport team had hoped to spend £200,000 on new cycles lanes and improved signage across the town but the squeeze on public spending has forced them to reconsider.The Hartlepool Mail reports … Read more
The Pont-y-Werin bridge between Cardiff and Penarth opened this week, providing a walking and cycling link between the two communities either side of the River Ely.The bridge forms part of Sustrans’ plans to improve and enhance walking and cycling links across the country, using the £50 million grant from the Big Lottery Fund that followed … Read more
Mark Renshaw of HTC-Columbia has launched a scathing attack at the Garmin-Transitions team after being thrown of the Tour de France yesterday for headbutting Julian Dean and moving across Tyler Farrar’s line, vowing never to speak to anyone from the team again, and claims that Farrar, who is riding with a broken wrist after his … Read more
US component brand Ritchey has announced the launch of a new lightweight road wheelset along with the two new bar designs that we told you about earlier in the year.The SuperLogic wheels, which come in at the top of the Ritchey range, have 46mm deep aero rims with glass-reinforced Scrim sidewalls to cope with the … Read more
CTC president and Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow’s bespoke titanium Condor has been stolen from outside the Channel 4 newsroom in central London. It’s the second time in a year that Jon’s had a Condor Gran Fondo stolen.Jon, pictured on his bike with riders from this year’s The Race Against Time LEJOG ride, of … Read more
While most of the focus at the Tour de France is on the racing and its aftermath, cycling’s biggest race plays host each year to any number of rumours and snippets of news related to the pro peloton. Here’s the second of our regular round-up of some of the ones you may have missed.Andy Schleck … Read more
You know you’re a cyclist when you’re asked to an evening’s dinner at a house that’s some distance away and you immediately wonder if it’s rideable. You know other people aren’t cyclists when you ask if it’s okay to pedal to their house and they reply that it’s fine, yet enquire if your bike is … Read more
Olympic rower James Cracknell is well known for his epic challenges: he’s completed the Marathon Des Sables, raced to the South Pole and rowed, cycled and swam from the UK to Morocco in aid of Sport Relief. Yesterday the keen cyclist set out on another gruelling adventure: to cycle, run, row and swim across the … Read more
Paris-Roubaix and Tour de France stage winner Magnus Backstedt will lead Nigel Mansell and his two sons from Kensington Palace on a 1,200-mile 13-day cycle challenge around Britain. Tour winner Stephen Roche will also be there for the start of the epic ride, which starts next Thursday (22 July).UK Youth President Nigel Mansell OBE decided … Read more
The Imperiale is Wilier’s latest offering in the highly competitive market of carbon dream bikes. With this bike Wilier attempt to give you all your cake and let you eat it too. The Imperiale combines, performance, aerodynamics. Sounds like a super high end sportive bike? Wilier don’t believe in the idea of “sportive” bikes, well … Read more
