Although it can be a fiddle to fit, Madison’s Summit heavy duty rack is a quality item at a sensible price. Without being too crude, my Kona Dew Drop has a big fat bum. That makes finding a suitable rack a bit of a chore, especially as manufacturers don’t tend to give you the width … Read more
Bit early on the randomiser button this week, as the Cadbury’s chocolate digestives (other coated biscuit products are available) were just too appealing. Anyhow we’ve stuck our grubby mitts into the database and pulled out a winner, and that winner is…andydale!Congratulations andy, if that’s your real name. Sorry to all of you who missed out … Read more
Chelsea and England football star Frank Lampard feared the worst earlier this week when he thought he had run over a 14-year-old boy as he reversed his Range Rover in London.Instead, he discovered that while the schoolboy was unharmed, his bike had been left in a mangled heap, prompting the midfielder to give £200 to … Read more
Record investment in cycle infrastructure at railway stations is leading increasing numbers of train passengers to use their bikes to get to the station, according to the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC).The organisation says that around 28 million train journeys a year are made by people who have cycled to the station, equivalent to … Read more
Team Saxo Bank rider Jonny Bellis is set to return to racing at the British National Championships in June, nine months after the life-threatening scooter accident in Italy last year that left the up-and-coming star in an induced coma.According to a report on the website of the Danish newspaper Politiken, team owner Bjarne Riis said … Read more
Former Housemartins and Beautiful South singer Paul Heaton is gearing up to hit the road on his Pedals and Beer Pumps Tour, which gets under way next Wednesday.The tour will see Heaton, who appropriately enough first found fame with the Housemartins song Happy Hour, cycle 1,000 miles around the country, stopping off at various pubs … Read more
An ex- New York Police Department officer caught on film apparently pushing a cyclist of his bike on a Critical Mass ride has been acquitted of assault.Patrick Pogan, aged 24, was found guilty of on the count of offering a false instrument of filing, however, after earlier giving a different version of events to those … Read more
Eight cyclists in Brighton have been handed fixed-penalty notices by police… for riding their bikes on a cycle path.According to The Argus, PCSOs from Sussex Police issued the fines as part of a clampdown on unsafe road users, despite the fact that the cyclists were all riding on a path clearly marked as a cycle … Read more
We’ve always got on really well with Mavic’s entry-level Aksium road wheels in the past but the front one of this set went way out of true on our fourth or fifth ride, leaving us scrabbling about on the roadside with a spoke key.The 6106 aluminium rims are 24mm deep and they’ve been pinned and … Read more
The White Horse Challenge is an entertaining 90-mile romp through the rolling chalk-lands of Wiltshire and Berkshire, past several of the iconic chalk figures that give the ride its name. Actually, it isn’t all so rolling. Some of those hills are quite steep. But over the past few years – 2010 was the fourth edition – … Read more
