A bus driver in Birmingham has been suspended after being filmed by a passenger steering the vehicle with his elbows as he read a book while driving. The footage, posted on YouTube, shows that the driver was so engrossed in his reading material – we’re guessing it wasn’t the Highway Code – that he didn’t … Read more
BMC Racing’s celebrations of Cadel Evans’ maiden Classics win in yesterday’s Flèche Wallonne have been overshadowed by the news that Swiss rider Thomas Frei has tested positive for EPO and a nasty injury to the Dutch rider, Karsten Kroon.News of Frei’s positive test broke after he had completed Stage 2 of the Giro del Trentino, … Read more
Britain’s Emma Pooley has scored her first major victory of 2010, beating Olympic and former World Champion Nicole Cooke by a margin of eight seconds to win Flèche Wallonne Féminine in Belgium.Sweden’s Emma Johansson finished third behind Cooke, herself a three-time winner of the race, and riding yesterday in the Great Britain colours due to … Read more
According to Shimano these new pedals are good for “any onroad purpose from Granfondo to racing”. if your shoes take two bolt cleats then these are light and smooth enough for pretty much anything. In fact, at barely 290g a pair according to the road.cc scales they’re a scant 10g heavier than the claimed weight … Read more
We very nearly dropped our chocolate biscuits when we saw this pop up earlier from London bike shop Condor Cycles and they were obviously scratching their heads, slack-jawed too because the message read “Bont TT shoe – thoughts?”Cycling shoemakers Bont “Proudly Australian since 1975” are not unfamiliar to us in the sense that we have taken loads of … Read more
Jo is now fidgeting on the start line (read yesterday’s pre-fidgety musings below) and we’ll be following his progress throughout the day courtesy of his tweets and the very smart Champion Chip tracker – click on the link and to see him and all the other riders on today’s Magnificat recce teearing around the map, … Read more
World Champion Cadel Evans overhauled Tour de France winner Alberto Contador to win the second of this year’s Ardenness Classics this afternoon in the Flèche Wallone.The victory is Evan’s first in a Classic and comes two years after he finished second in the same race behind Luxembourg’s Kim Kirchen. The BMC racing rider made his … Read more
We’re happily freewheeling skittish down a rubbly farmtrack on our cyclo-cross bikes when a brace of burly mountainbikes speed past us, I think one of them might have even “hooned” as he overtook. That’s enough for the red mist to descend and all of a sudden the game’s afoot, we follow our spirits, crank hard … Read more
The volcanic ash cloud currently hovering over Europe may have wreaked havoc with air travel and caused riders such as Bradley Wiggins and Carlos Sastre to miss last weekend’s Amstel Gold Race, with others having to travel to the Netherlands by car to compete – but it was the eruption of a volcano almost 200 … Read more
Time for the last update of the blog before my wedding on Saturday (and hopefully honeymoon next week; ash permitting).I haven’t been riding that much due to all the last minute planning that seems to have come up and bitten our bums.One thing I have insisted on doing is watching the classics on Eurosport and … Read more
