Carbon bikes, how long have they been around then? 10 years, 15? 20 tops? Well we visited Raleigh recently and and they showed us their first carbon effort – from 1969. They thought it might be the oldest carbon bike in the world… we think they’re probably right.In our video John Carter, who’s been at … Read more
Press reports in Italy suggest that the organisers of the Giro d’Italia will tomorrow confirm that the 2012 edition of the race will get under way in Washington DC. Rumours of a planned departure on the other side of the Atlantic have been circulating for months, notwithstanding the immense logistical problems involved, not to mention … Read more
Two Los Angeles bike couriers turned Good Samaritan on Monday when they pursued a bike thief for five blocks and knocked him off the bike, causing him to flee. The LAPD is now searching for the miscreant, whom it describes as “a 30-year-old man with a torn shirt, a possibly sprained ankle, as well as road … Read more
Pupils at two schools in Conwy are being encouraged to take to their bikes to get to and from school through a series of cycle skills days organised by the sustainable transport charity, Sustrans through its Bike It initiative.The events, which are being held at Ysgol Glan Morfa in Abergele and Ysgol Morfa Rhianedd in … Read more
A group of 20 students from Exeter University will this weekend undertake an 80-mile bike ride from the cathedral city to Bristol to help raise funds to buy two bicycles to allow the Devon branch of St John Ambulance to set up a cycle response unit.Fifteen of the students taking part in the bike ride … Read more
Road.cc readers are equally split between viewing drivers who pay cyclists no attention and those road users whose aggression means they display too much of it as the biggest dangers on the roads, according to our latest poll.With around 300 votes cast, just a single vote separated the two choices, both of which gained 40% … Read more
One of the newer generation of LED lights from the USE Exposure brand, a name already well known in the mountain-biking world, the Toro promises an outstanding mix of car-dazzling illumination, small size and long battery life.Designed primarily for off-road racing, with a built-in battery and single, high power P7 LED from Seoul Semiconductor, the … Read more
British cycling clothing firm Shutt Velo Rapide has revealed that it will be racing kit supplier to the new Orbea-For Goodness Shakes team, whose launch we reported on earlier this month and which, uniquely for a British team will be putting both men’s and women’s squads on the road during 2010.Both squads will be supplied … Read more
Olympic champions Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton head a star-studded line-up for the final round of the Revolution Series at the Manchester Velodrome on Saturday where they will do battle with some of the same rivals they will meet four weeks later at the World Championships in Copenhagen.This evening session is sold out, but … Read more
A BBC London TV programme aired last night, and available to watch now on the BBC iPlayer for viewers throughout the UK, has hit out at ‘Lycra louts’ who ride through red lights and on pavements, but failed to acknowledge the dangers that cyclists themselves face daily on the capital’s roads.The ten-minute report by former … Read more
