Multiple Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy has helped launch a campaign that aims to deal with Britain’s growing and sometimes deadly pothole problem by urging for more funding to be spent on road maintenance.The new campaign has been launched by Aggregate Industries just weeks after army officer Jonathan Allen was killed by a lorry … Read more
Police in Scotland have appointed a dedicated police officer to address the concerns of local residents ahead of the Etape Caledonia, Britain’s biggest closed road cycling event, as organisers seek to avoid a repeat of the sabotage that wreaked havoc on the race last year.Carpet tacks thrown along a five-mile stretch of the 81-mile route … Read more
A cyclist in Brighton has been fined £700 and ordered to pay £215 costs after riding through a red light. Richard Hodgson, aged 53, was found guilty by Brighton magistrates of ignoring the traffic light, cycling without lights, cycling on the pavement and failure to stop for police.According to the Daily Telegraph, Hodgson had been … Read more
The Marin Toscana is one of a growing breed of ‘cross derived urban bikes. It isn’t pretending to be an actual cyclocross machine and as such it’s only really fair to mark it on how it performs on road and path duties, which it handles with a good deal of assurance. It’s well built, reliable … Read more
Multiple World and Olympic Cycling Champion Victoria Pendleton launched her latest campaign today for bread maker Hovis and in contrast to the wholesome check-shirt-and-jeans image where she’s promoting Victoria’s Recipes for healthy breakfasts, the photography big guns have been pulled out to portray her as Holly Golightly, the heroine played by Audrey Hepburn in the … Read more
Everyone’s favourite local hero of hour-record fame Graeme Obree is riding high again having signed a deal to rewrite his autobiography, The Flying Scotsman.Today he told Scotland’s Daily Record,”All my life I have been driven by a fear of failure but that has changed. Today, I feel better than I’ve ever felt.”After struggling with depression … Read more
It’s hard to make a Carbon stem as stiff as an alloy one at the same weight. It gets harder when KCNC are knocking out units like this that are sub-100g and are still plenty stiff. Some of that weight saving comes in the form of some rather fiddly bolts so there’s a bit of … Read more
Take the English love of the eccentric and the well-worn and there’s a good chance that the Tweed Run would suit you even if you weren’t a fanatical cyclist. Add in a fine sunny Saturday and the top classy spots of London and it all adds up to a lot of smiles not to mention … Read more
Since the recent fixie boom started, the bike forums have been asking “When are Masi bikes coming to the UK?”. That now appears to have been answered by today’s announcement on Bicycle Industry and Retailer News that the brand with a long Italian heritage and more recent roots in the huge American market is going … Read more
Abolishing Vehicle Excise Duty, and giving the UK’s strategic road network (SRN) to every citizen of the UK in the form of tradable shares is the Social Market Foundation’s recipe for cutting congestion on UK roads and easing pollution too in its latest report – Roads to Recovery. The Social Market Foundation is a long … Read more
