The Bristol Cycling City Project has a summer of bike-related activities planned, starting with Cyclescreen, Bristol’s first dedicated bike film festival.Cyclescreen runs from Thursday 5 August to Sunday 8 August at the Watershed. It’s a season of cycling films, documentaries, lectures and interactive events celebrating cycling culture in its varied forms.Apart from screening some of … Read more
Lance Armstrong may have won more stages of the Tour de France in the post-war era than anyone else except Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinhault, and his RadioShack team may boast some big names in Andreas Kloden, Levi Leipheimer and Janez Brajkovic, but it was the less heralded Sergio Paulinho who this afternoon claimed the … Read more
The latest manifestation of the age-old rivalry between Cambridge and Oxford has been won by the light blues.Both cities ran Workplace Cycle Challenges between 7 and 27 June but it was Cambridge that managed to persuade more people onto their bikes, with 132 new cyclists compared to Oxford’s 117.The three-week challenge saw organisations in Cambridge … Read more
Cadel Evans has earned himself a reputation as one of the hard man of cycling over the last few days, battling on in the Tour de France despite having fractured his elbow in a crash sustained on stage 8.He dropped well down the general classification while wearing the yellow jersey on stage 9, and is … Read more
While Lance Armstrong’s challenge in his final Tour de France may have come to grief on Stage 8 to Morzine-Avoriaz last Sunday, momentum is gathering for a future – and potentially equally gripping – battle involving the Team RadioShack leader with the news that a federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to Trek Bicycle … Read more
Sergio Paulinho of RadioShack took the sprint by a tyre’s width from Vasil Kiryienka of Caisse d’Epargne, the sole survivors of a six man break that escaped 40 minutes into today’s Stage 10 of the Tour de France in Gap this afternoon as French fans faced another year without a Bastille Day winner, the last … Read more
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With just days to go before the first Barclays Cycle Superhighways open, some of the route has already been torn up by roadworks.The South London Press reports that part of route CS7, which runs between Merton and Southwark Bridge – and which is due to open for business next Monday (19 July) – has been … Read more
A former New York police officer convicted of lying about a confrontation with a cyclist demonstrator — as witnessed by millions of YouTube viewers — is due to be sentenced today.According to an Associated Press report, Patrick Pogan faces up to four years in jail but could get probation instead. Jurors acquitted Pogan, 24, of … Read more
Guided cycle rides will take place this summer to get Londoners used to the new Barclays Cycle Superhighway routes.The Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) have announced a programme of rides, starting with two pilot routes that launch on Monday 19 July and run from Merton to the City and from Barking to Tower Gateway.The … Read more
