Hip-hop star Snoop Dogg has given a bizarre good luck message to Lance Armstrong ahead of what we now know will be the Team RadioShack rider’s final Tour de France.In a brief video on YouTube, against a graphic of the Arc de Triomphe, the West Coast rapper tells Armstrong “I need to borrow that bike … Read more
The Tour de France marks the point in the cycling calendar when thoughts inevitably turn to who’s riding where next year, and this time around, the gossip has got going earlier than usual, with rumours that Team Saxo Bank’s Schleck brothers may be racing for a new Luxembourg-based team next season.The Danish newspaper Politiken has reported … Read more
Women’s bike clothing brand Cyclodelic and Cycle Cambridge are joining forces to bring a two-day event, I Bike Cambridge, celebrating fashion, art, audio visuals and bicycles to the university city.The event forms part of The Big Weekend being held in the city’s Parkers Piece on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th July and will highlight the … Read more
Costing less than most road and mountain bikes, and nearly all dedicated tourers, the Revolution Country Explorer, is quite a bargain. A reliable and comfortable touring bike is essential for actually enjoying multi-day touring rather than enduring it. Sadly, it’s usually the case that you end up paying a lot for that privilege this bike … Read more
Lance Armstrong has used the social networking website Twitter to announce that this year’s Tour de France will be his final participation in the race that he dominated between 1999 and 2005, when he won it seven times in succession after returning to the sport following his successful battle against cancer.The Team RadioShack rider’s decision … Read more
Day two of the TRAT ride started in Taunton and finished 153 miles away in Telford. We climbed 5400 feet and managed a 15.5 mph average (any one of these figures could be wrong, by the way. I was only told them five minutes ago but my brain appears to have turned to mush).But the … Read more
It’s Tour de France time again. The one race that transcends all cycling boundaries is rolling into Rotterdam for the Grand Départ on July 3 and you can be a part of it… well, virtually. Thanks to road.cc and www.cyclesurgery.com you can have a go at being a Directeur Sportif in the 2010 Tour, and … Read more
What do you do when you’ve pushed your bike up that hill and munched your way through a packet of Hovis? If you’re the divine Ms Pendleton you get your lycra on and wash down that bread all with some Gatorade. Well that’s if some Danny MacAskill type scamp doesn’t steal it off you leading to … Read more
These Mavic Zxellium performance shoes are comfy, mega-stiff and very, very light – our size 10.5s (UK) weighed in at just 622g the pair. We’ve said it before and we’ll doubtless say it again, Mavic make some great shoes, and these yellow perils feel like a favourite pair of slippers as soon as you put … Read more
A London cyclist was last week hospitalised with a suspected broken ankle after being hit at a junction outside Borough tube station by a lorry belonging to a firm that owns another vehicle involved in a nearby accident that claimed the life of a bike rider earlier this year.In last week’s accident, a woman said … Read more
