The ancient county of Rutland is clearly pitching to be England’s answer to Flanders tomorrow Sunday 25th April for the East Midlands International CiCLE Classic, a 105-mile road race now in its 6th year that takes in multiple sections of farm track and gravel designed to test riders and equipment to the limit. And there’s … Read more
Quite what the commuters on the Bristol-Bath Railway Path are going to make of being accosted by a tweed-clad alien called Cornelius this coming Thursday 29th April we’re not sure, but charity Sustrans has organized it anyway in celebration of 15 years of the National Cycle Network. If he survives Bristol, he’ll be travelling the … Read more
Boulder, Colorado’s Crucial Innovation Inc, makers of Retül 3D bike fit technology, this week announced their partnership with Lance Armstrong’s RadioShack professional cycling outfit to supply bike fitting kit and services.Retül, who already have deals with British Cycling and Team Sky among others, uses infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs) borrowed from the surgical navigation industry … Read more
SVT is Sweden’s equivalent of the BBC and “Kobra” is their Culture Show in the arts and entertainment department. This last week’s show titled Cykel is 28 minutes 51 seconds devoted to cycling love including our favourite part; a profile on Camille McMillan, photographer for the excellent Rouleur magazine while he works on his collaboration … Read more
Trials rider and YouTube phenomenon Danny MacAskill is teaming up with Cycling Scotland to urge Scotland’s drivers to give adequate space to children cycling to school, with increasing numbers of youngsters expected to take to their bikes to get to and from their lessons in the coming months.MacAskill, together with the Riderz stunt team, will … Read more
If like me, you enjoy cycling and also enjoy a good ale (never together of course, well maybe just a few but always responsibly) what better way to celebrate the union of such pleasurable past times than to have something on your bike that advertises your favourite tipple. These Mucky Nutz bar end caps stop … Read more
He may not have won much during his second comeback season last year – an individual time trial on his way to a podium finish in the Tour de France being the highlight – but Lance Armstrong has been named the most influential athlete in the US, according to a new poll.The Team RadioShack rider … Read more
Now here’s an interesting bike*, the Giant Chixie – we’re guessing the first women’s specific fixed gear bike… although you can ride it as a singlespeed too. Ever since we saw it at Eurobike, Leonie has been asking when we are going to get one in and now… her wish has come true.Whether you should … Read more
The legendary Eddy Merckx turned 65 yesterday – doesn’t time fly? – and in a move that is sure to excite cycling philatelists everywhere, De Post, the Belgian national postal service, has marked the occasion by issuing a commemorative stamp.The stamp depicts the five times Tour de France winner in the Maillot Jaune with the … Read more
In a week that has provided a stark reminder that the war against doping within cycling is far from won, with the revelation that BMC Racing’s Thomas Frei and Team RadioShack’s Li Fuyu had both tested positive for banned substances, an Austrian former professional cyclist is set to stand trial for supplying EPO and other … Read more
