Thanks to Squirt’s Sweat Sucker the humble headband comes of age. Discrete, extremely effective and fully helmet compatible, gone are the days when turbo sessions and scorching summer training runs meant looking like an extra from fame, suffering unsightly rashes and perspiration running inside eyewear. However, the design mustn’t be tossed in with the civilian … Read more
A young entrepreneur in Bucharest is helping spearhead efforts to reclaim the city’s streets for cyclists to help the Romanian capital shed its “Apocalypse on Wheels” nickname.The latter is the name of a 2008 HBO Romania documentary directed by Alexandru Solomon which highlighted the city’s endless traffic jams as well as the disregard for traffic … Read more
The iPayRoadTax campaign has claimed a couple of notable victories in recent days in its efforts to dispel misconceptions about how roads are funded as well as use of the term “road tax” itself – it hasn’t existed since 1937, having been abolished in a process begun by Winston Churchill 11 years earlier.One of the … Read more
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has come under criticism from cycling campaigners and local politicians after cutting through locks and removing bicycles from a street on the route of President Obama’s motorcade when he visited the city last month.Footage posted on the video-sharing website YouTube by New York-based direct action environmental organisation Time’s Up … Read more
The Panaracer Closer is a new tyre for 2010 that is marketed as a “fantastic balance of high end race performance and the superb durability, comfort and confidence of a training tyre”. I’ll certainly go along with the high end race performance bit. At 210 grams, you can’t accuse it of being heavy. It remind … Read more
A master’s student from King’s College London is seeking the views of cyclists in the capital as part of a research project that seeks to analyse the behaviour of the city’s bike riders and study their perception of safety while on their bicycles and the risk of air pollution.It is hoped that the research will … Read more
Once upon a time, if you wanted to catch a bit of Tour de France action while out and about in London, you’d need to pop into a pub and persuade a friendly barman to put Eurosport on the TV. And even then, you risked missing the sprint finish if the old boy nursing his … Read more
Recent years have seen something of an explosion in products specifically aimed at the female market, whether that be women’s specific frames from the likes of Trek and Eddy Merckx or fashion-oriented cycle clothing from brands such as Ana Nichoola and Cyclodelic, and they’ve now been joined by a new website that aims to provide … Read more
HTC-Columbia withdrew Mark Cavendish from the Tour de Romandie on Friday evening, citing the cyclist’s “inappropriate actions” following his victory in Stage 2 of the race on Thursday, which he won.Cavendish gave the V-sign as he crossed the line to clinch only his second win of the season, and later said that he had made … Read more
The bookies may only have Team RadioShack’s Lance Armstrong down as third favourite to win this summer’s Tour de France, but the Texan cyclist will have some cause for celebration later this year after revealing that girlfriend Anna Hansen is expecting his fifth, and her second, child.Armstrong, who has nearly 2.5 million followers on the … Read more
