Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta made the most of home advantage in Stoke-on-Trent last night to wrest the Halfords Tour Series lead back from Rapha-Condor Sharp by placing three riders in the top seven finishers, including race winner Ian Bibby, who took his second round of the competition. With just three points separating the top three teams, the … Read more
Why not expose those pins to the max? The weather is actually resembling something close to what can be described as summer and those toned leg muscles that you have been working so hard in developing should be put on display. But how short is still acceptable? Lycra padded hot pants?
Mark Cavendish has pulled out of the Tour de Suisse as the race heads for the Alps. The Manx sprinter was involved – and implicated – in a pile-up 50 yards from the line in tuesday’s fourth stage and suffered extensive road rash injuries. He finished stage five over eleven minutes down on winner Marcus … Read more
Manufacturers of hybrid cars may argue that their vehicles, often derided by the petrolhead lobby, are no laughing matter, especially in these eco-aware times, but in our latest poll, road.cc users have firmly linked them with one of Britain’s best-loved comedians of yesteryear.In response to news that the EU was investigating whether hybrid vehicles, which … Read more
In the three minute cartoon shown below, users are shown how to sign up for the scheme, pick up bikes at docking stations, told what to do if there aren’t enough spaces to return it where they want to, and given advice about safety and security.It also reinforces the message that the scheme is best-suited … Read more
Shane Sutton has become the latest member of Team GB’s cycling set-up to receive official recognition, with the Australian-born British Cycling Performance Manager for Road and Track awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, published earlier this week.Sutton, currently head coach at British Cycling, was one of the architects of Team GB’s impressive medal … Read more
Métier; A job or profession, particularly the one for which a person has the strongest aptitude and most enjoys doing.The French word ‘métier’ has its Latin root in ‘ministerium’ or ‘service’ and by the time I’d finished reading Le Métier – the seasons of a professional cyclist by Canadian Michael Barry with photographs by Camille … Read more
A cyclist commuting to work in Anchorage, Alaska, escaped serious injury after being attacked by a brown bear when he followed expert advice and played dead.The incident took place in the city’s Far North Bicentennial Park on Tuesday, when Sean Berkey, aged 45, apparently surprised the female bear which is thought to have been protecting … Read more
Five men have been convicted at the Old Bailey in London of manslaughter and causing the death by dangerous driving of a cyclist who unwittingly got caught up in a feud between them that resulted in a high-speed car chase through a London suburb.Graham Thwaites, aged 51, who worked for a bank in the City … Read more
