Garmin’s Edge 500 GPS computer is a little wonder for giving you all your ride information in an easy-to-use and downloadable package.You can buy the Edge 500 with a speed/cadence senor and a heart rate strap (£249.99) or you can just go for the head unit on its own (£199.99). Used alone, it tracks your … Read more
A teenage girl from Plymouth has told of how she was forced off the road and into a barbed wire fence as a result of a car speeding behind her, leaving her with cuts to her face and chest. To make matters worse, not only did the car not stop, but neither did passing pedestrians, … Read more
Fans of Bristol City FC who use pedal power to get to matches at the club’s Ashton Gate ground may find themselves being welcomed upon arrival by players thanking them for using their bikes to reach the game.The initiative forms part of an effort to get the team’s fans to reduce their dependency on their … Read more
A whole bunch of shiny new kit has just arrived at the road.cc nerve centre from Mavic, including these striking high-end Zxellium shoes.Mavic built their reputation on wheels and we guess that’s what they’ll always be best known for, but the French brand has really expanded in other areas over the past few years, including … Read more
Anquet maps have been around for a good long while and version 6 of their software is more robust and fully featured than other, earlier incarnations that we’ve tried. Interaction with a Windows-based smartphone or PDA is simple and the prices are getting more appealing too. The interface can still be a bit slow and … Read more
Damien Monier of Cofidis scored the first win of his seven-year professional career in today’s Stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia between Bruneck to Peio Terme on a day when the overall leaders seemed happy to let a 19-man breakaway containing no rider within 15 minutes of the maglia rosa head off up the road.In … Read more
With motorised traffic presenting at best a headache and at worst a danger to cyclists, we could be forgiven for dreaming of a future in which the world revolved around pedal power rather than the internal combustion engine.That perhaps fanciful notion may soon be a step nearer reality in South Carolina, however, where property developers … Read more
While his allegations that Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs have been dismissed by the seven times Tour de France winner, Floyd Landis certainly appears to have opened a can of worms that looks likely to keep the Team RadioShack rider and his PR and legal advisors busy for some time to come. And with … Read more
Residents of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire are being encouraged to get on their bikes thanks to the launch of a new cycle map that highlights commuting, school and leisure routes in the Fenland town.The map, initially suggested by the Wisbech Cycle Forum, has been researched and published by Cambridgeshire County Council together with Fenland District Council … Read more
City workers and cycling fans alike were treated to a fast and furious first round of the 2010 Halfords Tour Series at Canary Wharf last night, with Londoner Tony Gibb of CyclePremier.com-Metaltek snatching victory by a tyre’s width from the evergreen Malcolm Elliott of Motorpoint-Marshall’s Pasta.This being the Tour Series, though, the classification that really … Read more
