Now then, if you’re going to make a big thing about your new bike and splurge it about with posh photos and big magazine adverts it makes sense to pay attention to the finer details, especially if the bike is flagshipping your custom-build programme where tending to minutiae might count for something. Admittedly you’ve done … Read more
Two young brothers from York have taken up a 100-mile cycling challenge that their terminally-ill father couldn’t complete last year.Sam and Oliver Miller, along with pupils, parents and teachers at Huntington Primary School, rode 100 miles between them by doing laps of the school playground.Their father, Martyn Miller, 42, who died last September only six … Read more
The last round of Rollapaluza’s hugely successful Winter roller-race league saw the action return to the Half Moon pub in Herne Hill, London.The final event saw the two dominant racers of this season win the event on the night and the overall standings….however once again competition was intense with battles for the minor places and … Read more
Whatever your stance on the wearing of helmets by adults, I’ve not met many parents who don’t put their kids in one. This makes sense for a number of reasons: kids fall off more, and when they do they’re not likely to be going faster than the 12mph test limit for most lids. The helmets … Read more
An Irish bike shop owner known across the country for his love of cycling and his links with champion rider Stephen Roche has died aged 89.Joe Daly founded and ran the bike shop which bears his name in Dundrum, Co. Dublin. The premises moved three times but the reputation of the shop never wavered.Stephen Roche … Read more
Land in Bristol that has been ‘difficult’ to acquire will be compulsorily purchased to improve cycle lanes and routes through the city.Bristol City Council agreed to push ahead with the purchase four parcels of land at the rear of Berkeley House in Lawrence Hill, at Bath Road, and Station Road in Brislington and at the … Read more
Laid low by Labour? Conned by the Conservatives? If you don’t know which way to jump at the next election, there’s only one solution, according to the CTC – Vote Bike!The UK’s national cyclists’ organisation has launched a campaign of that name which aims to encourage riders to push all Parliamentary candidates to commit to … Read more
Council chiefs have approved plans to carry out improvements to cycle routes in Cambridge. Cambridgeshire County Council’s Cabinet have given the go ahead for cycle route improvements including the provision of new off-road cycle lanes, widening and resurfacing existing lanes in the city.After listening to representations from cyclists and concerns from residents, Cabinet are looking … Read more
Manchester is to host the fourth round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics between 18 and 20 February 2011.It is the third successive year British Cycling have hosted a round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester and the announcement comes on the back of a sell out success in November 2009 … Read more
Better intelligence and insider tip-offs will be key to the fight against doping in sport, including cycling, the UK Anti-Doping Agency has said. At a seminar this week, UK Anti-Doping chief executive Andy Parkinson said the agency was focusing more and more on intelligence.”There’s a whole lot of information out there that we get on … Read more
