The sport of cyclo-cross was left reeling today after cycling’s governing body, the UCI, revealed that two of its brightest young talents, Polish brothers Pawel and Kacper Szczepaniak who finished first and second in January’s Under-23 World Championships at Tabor, Czech Republic, had tested positive for Recombinant EPO.The pair were subject to targeted urine tests … Read more
Alberto Contador put the hammer down with less than two kilometres to go to destroy the field in today’s Stage 4 of Paris-Nice as the race wound out of Mende on a Category 1 climb that left most riders struggling as the road kicked up sharply towards the finish.The win, by ten seconds from compatriots … Read more
UK Sport has announced its 2010 medal targets for Britain’s summer Olympic sports, and expects the country’s cyclists to come away with between five and ten medals at this year’s UCI World Championships events.The medals tally set is across all disciplines, so it will include the World Track Championships later this month in Copenhagen, where … Read more
British track legend Jason Queally is targeting a sensational return to top-flight competition with the aim of making the Team Pursuit squad for the London 2012 Olympics, when he will be 42 years of age.According to a report in the Guardian, Queally, who won Britain’s solitary cycling gold in the kilo at the Sydney Olympics … Read more
The day has dawned and once the office stuff is completed and the other passengers are on board we will be making a dash for the ferry.Packing the car was an intricate piece of art with frames cross angled and wheels packed in last. It took about 45 minutes in the cold and dark last … Read more
AA President Edmund King has given his backing to the iPayRoadTax.com initiative, applauding the website as a great example of online campaigning and calling its jerseys “ironic, iconic, iconoclastic” – and the keen cyclist has even been out on his bike sporting one.While you’d expect the head of a motoring organisation with around 15 million … Read more
It’s always nice to be recognised for a job well done, and even better when someone gives you a token of their appreciation for your efforts. However, Washington DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has found himself in a bit of a fix after being given a $12,000 Colnago EPS, complete with his own name inscribed … Read more
There’s myriad ways to plan a route if you’re going out for a ride, from not planning at all to having your every move logged by a GPS which bleeps occasionally to tell you what to do next. More and more people are turning to online services to look for routes or to generate their … Read more
A high-profile member of the London Assembly has called on Mayor of London Boris Johnson to ban lorries from key commuting routes into the city during peak times after a second cyclist in the capital was killed in less than 24 hours, and has warned that his policies risk undoing improvements made to cyclist safety … Read more
Politicians in Jersey have rejected by a solitary vote a proposal to make it compulsory for all cyclists, including adults, to wear a helmet, although they approved by a margin of two to one similar measures for children aged under 18.The laws to make helmets compulsory either for all cyclists in public places or just … Read more
