The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has accused London Mayor Boris Johnson of lacking ambition for the Capital’s cycling revolution, suggesting his strategy is fundamentally flawed.A CPRE report – Backpedalling London’s cycling revolution? – says the Mayor’s Transport Strategy is anticipating a slow down in the growth of cycling, and calls for the Strategy … Read more
This weekend Mark Webber put in a stirring performance to win the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, two weeks ago he was involved in a spectacular crash in Valencia, but last week Webber was on his bicycle for the Ride to the Horns Sportive.Just seven days after the crash that saw him momentarily airborne, upside … Read more
If you build it, they will come. Well, we were expecting a few hundred entries to our inaugural Fantasy Tour de France league, enough to make it interesting. But we weren’t prepared for the response. To date over 1,750 people have joined up and we’ve been blown away by the amount of interest the game … Read more
Tour de France organisers ASO may want this year’s race to evoke some of the romance of the early editions of the event by commemorating the centenary of its first visit to the Pyrenees, but Mark Cavendish, winner of back-to-back stages today and yesterday, this afternoon injected a hefty dose of pragmatism after crossing the … Read more
Mark Cavendish may have taken the sprint today to win his second successive stage of this year’s Tour de France, but for once it’s not the finish itself that’s got people searching on YouTube, but a bit of fisticuffs afterwards between Quick Step’s Carlos Barredo and Rui Alberto Costa of Caisse d’Epargne.The punch-up – well, … Read more
Hundreds of pupils from 16 schools in Brighton and Hove cycled to school and back over 9,000 times during one week in June, as part of a challenge set by Sustrans.The challenge, called Emission Impossible, was set by Sustrans Bike It officer Ben Sherratt. Ben challenged pupils to complete the 200-mile total distance of the … Read more
Mark Cavendish followed yesterday’s victory in Montargis by claiming his second win of this year’s Tour de France in Guegnon this afternoon to confirm that he is very much back at the top of his game following a difficult first few days of the race as he struggled to recapture his form after a build-up … Read more
Rachel Lillie, an artist from Surbiton, has won the Cycling in London illustration competition organised by London Transport Museum and the Association of Illustrators.Rachel’s illustration will be used as a poster and forms part of a new exhibition at the London Transport Museum featuring works from the best contemporary illustrators on the theme of cycling … 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 first of our regular round-ups of some of the ones you may have missed.Caisse d’Epargne … Read more
Whyte have just held the official press launch of their new line-up of urban and all-round bikes for 2011, and road.cc were among the first to climb aboard and give them a spin.The British brand – which has been producing mountain bikes since 1994 – is introducing two new ranges: the R7 series of fast … Read more
