A little under 82 hours after setting off from John O’Groats on Monday morning, David Walliams and his team of cycling celebrities arrived at Land’s End just before 7pm this evening – and as they did so, a tweet from Sports Relief confirmed that they had hit their £1 million fundraising target.The team’s achievement is … Read more
Cyclists in York are set to benefit from the UK’s first ever city centre bicycle hub, which will provide secure parking for up to 100 bicycles while their owners go about their business.The new facility, which should be open this autumn, will be housed in the disused Lendal Bridge electricity substation building, and has been … Read more
Westminster City Council has announced a £14 million overhaul of Piccadilly Circus that will do away with its one-way system and remove guard railings installed almost half a century ago in a naked streets-style scheme similar to one introduced at Oxford Circus last year.The area to be given a new streetscape includes Pall Mall and … Read more
Family cyclists in Rubery, near Bromsgrove, are being invited to bring their bikes along to a local school this Saturday to have them checked by police for safety as part of a cycle-themed morning.Between 10am and 12 noon, Beaconside School, Hazel Road, Rubery will throw its doors open to cyclists in an event organised by … Read more
Athletes and officials will be using bicycles supplied by BMW to get around London’s Olympic Park in 2012 after UK-based companies such as Pashley and Brompton, the latter based in the capital, were denied the chance to put in their own bids.Those concerned about the environmental impact of the Games may also have raised an … Read more
Police have issued an appeal for witnesses after a cyclist in Essex was dragged under a van which failed to stop, the vehicle’s occupants subsequently fleeing and leaving the victim trapped underneath.The 35-year-old cyclist, who has not been named, had been cycling along Station Lane in Ingatsetone at 7am last Sunday morning when he was … Read more
It’s the fourth and final day of the Sport Relief John O’Groats to Land’s End Bike Ride, and while the end may not quite be in sight for David Walliams and his team of celebrities, they have now crossed the Devon border and just have that county and Cornwall to negotiate.Both counties, however, have their … Read more
A Fatal Accident Inquiry in Fort William into the death of Scottish cyclist Jason MacIntryre concluded today, with the champion cyclist’s widow Caroline saying that she was glad to have heard a full account of the events of the day her husband was killed.Sherrif Douglas Hall will deliver his determination – similar to the verdict … Read more
There’s a turbo trainer for every pocket and every style of rider out there. If you’ve got deep pockets and some money to throw at an indoor trainer and you’re more of a quality or experience than quantity of stats kind of a person then you could do a lot worse than American outfit Kurt … Read more
The 25-year-old Dutch cyclist Thomas Dekker has been banned for two years by the Monaco cycling federation (FMC), the body which holds the license of the cyclist, according to press reports in the Netherlands.Dekker was suspended by Silence-Lotto shortly just days before last year’s Tour de France got under way in Monaco after it was … Read more
