Vuelta winner Alejandro Valverde is facing a worldwide ban from cycling after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) threw out his appeal against a decision of the Italian Olympic Committee, CONI, to ban him from racing in Italy for two years from May 2009.That ban came about after a sample taken from Valverde during … Read more
Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen was led out perfectly by Chris Sutton to hold of Alessandro Petacchi to take the seventh and final stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico in San Benedetto del Tronte this afternoon in a thrilling sprint finish in the seaside town.In a dramatic final stage, last year’s runner-up, Stefano Garzelli of Acqua & … Read more
A two-day festival of cycling hosted by the Mud Dock Cycleworks and Café in Bristol will form part of a fortnight-long series of events celebrating the bicycle in England’s first Cycling City next month.Dubbed Mudstock, the venue will provide the focal point over the weekend of 10 and 11 April for demos of all the … Read more
Edinburgh City Council is being called upon to introduce compulsory cycle training for pupils after it was revealed that only one in six primary school children in the city currently receive such lessons, giving rise to fears that Scotland’s capital will miss its target of getting cycling to account for15% of all journeys by 2020.Campaigners … Read more
A cyclist from Oxfordshire who planned to use his redundancy settlement to spend two months riding much of the route from London to Sydney, Australia has finally returned home after three years in the saddle and 37,000 miles.Former IT worker John Harwood, who combined intercontinental flights with spells on his bike to get down under, … Read more
Kacper Szczepaniak, who finished second to his brother Pawel in January’s Under-23 World Cyclo-cross Championships has reportedly tried to take his own life following last week’s revelations that the pair had tested positive for Recombinant EPO after the race in Tabor, Czech Republic.Polskie Radio reports that Pawel Szczepaniak confirmed his brother’s attempted suicide to the … Read more
The first Papal visit to Britain since 1982 has landed Tour of Britain organisers with a headache, with security concerns reportedly forcing them to abandon plans for a showpiece finale to the race in Central London and instead switch the closing stage to a closed circuit in Richmond Park in the southwest of the capital.With … Read more
Team RadioShack have confirmed that Lance Armstrong, missing from the past week’s two major European races, Paris-Nice and the Tirreno-Adriatico due to his participation in last weekend’s Cape Argus ride in South Africa, will race in Saturday’s Milan-San Remo.Joining him in the team’s squad for the 185-mile Primavera, which Armstrong raced for the seventh time … Read more
The super minimalist Cat-Eye Uno and 600 make a very lightweight competent “seen by” package for round-town commuting and as a contingency lights for those summer evenings when you’ve taken the best bike on an extended run and lost all track of time. However, while the 600s is undeniably bright, sealing and the seat post … Read more
Better perception of road safety is the key to getting more Londoners to cycle in the capital, a Dutch transport expert has said.Roelof Wittink, who helped devise Amsterdam’s cycle network, believes safety is the “biggest barrier” to Londoners using bikes because they are too scared.Last week was a black one for London’s cyclists, with two … Read more
