Team RadioShack have announced that Lance Armstrong has been forced to pull out of today’s Stage 2 of the four-day Circuit de Sarthe in France after coming down with gastroenteritis after the end of the opening stage yesterday. It added that the Texan will return to the United States “as soon as his condition allows.”According … Read more
A lawman in Arizona who is nicknamed “America’s Toughest Sheriff” is making prison inmates work for the privilege of watching television by getting them to pedal to generate electricity to power TV sets in jail.Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa jail was inspired to launch the quid pro quo initiative after visiting Tent City Jail and … Read more
It’s the last weekend in March and I guess it’s happened enough times now to be a diary-bookmark tradition – the “Happy 100”. A time to celebrate the changing of the clocks and the hopeful start of Spring by cracking off a swift hundred with friends round the lanes of Sussex. That’s miles not … Read more
Story updated with quotes from Roger Geffen, Campaigns and Policy director at CTC – see final four paragraphs. The family of a cyclist killed in a hit-and-run incident in May 2009 have said that they are “devastated” at the leniency of the sentence handed down to the driver involved.Last month we reported how Debra Kelly of … Read more
Team Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara has been talking about his stunning attack on the Muur in last Sunday’s Tour of Flanders which left Quick Step rider Tom Boonen for dead and enabled the World and Olympic Time Trial Champion to use his unparalleled skills in that discipline to power his way to victory in the … Read more
Gazing on the Fargo for the first time you might wonder what nightmare variety of cheese caused the Salsa engineers to dream it up: drop bar 29er? Bar end shifters? Discs? Six bottle cage mounts? Make no mistake though, this bike is no mistake. Cyclocross bikes are all well and good for a bit of … Read more
A 17-year-old from Gloucester has set himself the aim of becoming the youngest Briton ever to undertake the Race Across America. Matthew Stevens plans to compete in the 2012 staging of the ten-day race, by which time he will be 19 years of age. He believes that the youngest British rider to have completed the RAAM … Read more
It seems that if you want to give the mayor of a US city a headache, the best way to go about is to give him a bicycle, with the former Mayor of Miami, Manny Diaz, investigated by a dedicated police anti-corruption unit after being given a $321 Sun Bicycles Drifter bike by his staff … Read more
Sunday 20 June has been announced as this year’s date for Bristol’s annual Biggest Bike Ride, one of Britain’s largest mass participation cycling events, now in its 17th year, which last year attracted 7,000 participants.Aimed at families, five routes are offered of between nine and 38 miles in length, allowing cyclists of all ages and … Read more
I caught up with Gavin Strange the busy man behind this new film last Thursday at the ‘A Beatiful Machine‘ inspiration talks at the Howies gallery in Bristol on Good Friday (where Road.cc also did a talk/conversation/light hearted banter). The film sets out to capture the spirit of the Bristol fixed gear scene in glorious … Read more
