Grasshopper
As the envelope of extreme riding gets pushed further, kids are having to develop skills earlier. It is a good job that in this development period, parts of their body haven’t developed enough to make their eyes water and crumple in two.
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Highland councillors told to get on their bikes to save money
Cuts to public services might be swingeing, but they will also keep a few of us fit – at least in the Highlands of Scotland.Councillors there have been asked to consider cycling and sharing lifts to meetings to save money on expenses. The Highland Council, based in Inverness, needs to shed £50,000 from its members’ … Read more
Welsh Assembly considers bid for Rhyl cycle track
The father of a teenager killed in Britain’s worst cycling accident will today (Thursday) join a funding bid for a purpose-built practice track in Rhyl.Jonathan Harland lost his son Thomas, 14, when he and three other riders were hit by a car driver on the A547 in January 2006.Today he will stand alongside Glanmorfa Cycling … Read more
Tour of Oman: Spending a penny costs Sky the stage
A pee break cost Team Sky rider Edvald Boasson Hagen his team’s dominance of the Tour of Oman, leading to calls that ‘unwritten rules’ had been breached.The Norwegian’s ‘comfort break’ during the fourth stage was immediately followed by an all-out attack by Team Sky’s rivals, and although a 50km pursuit ensued, Boasson Hagen was still … Read more
LCC official calls for cutbacks in car advertising
A London Cycling Campaign (LCC) official has called for government limits on car advertising as a way of encouraging cycling.Tom Bogdanowicz, the LCC’s campaigns and development officer, says the £500m spent in the UK every year on car adverts should be scaled back, and cycling promoted as a healthy and sustainable form of transport.Blogging in … Read more
Rider linked to Landis confesses to importing growth hormone
An American cyclist who was a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency witness against disgraced Tour de France Floyd Landis in 2007 has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute human growth hormone he imported from China.Joe Papp, 34, of Pittsburg, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to sell HGH and Erythropoietin, or EPO, over the Internet.He faces … Read more
Schlamm Wetzikon
Contrary to the foreign sounding nomenclature Schlamm are a UK based cycle-clothing company, unashamedly cyclo-cross biased and race heavy with a range of clothes designed by people in the Lake District that have a long history in competitive sport and riding in the crappest of conditions. The Wetzikon jacket could easily be described as the … Read more
New iPhone app from Map My Tracks helps share your training results
Outdoor social network operator Map My Tracks has announced the launch of OutFront, a new GPS-based iPhone app that claims to offer Formula One-style real-time performance telemetry for participants in cycling, running and other outdoor sports.The company has also signed up with Cyclevox, the cycling-focused media and sponsorship consultancy, which will handle PR for OutFront … Read more
What if all athletes were treated like skateboarders
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The Call Of The Night & Other Black Magic
Being a predominantly nocturnal rider has earned me vampire status and a lot of trouble-not least as my son announced to his primary school teacher that I regularly slept in a coffin, hung upside down and turned into a bat, thus prompting suggestion from the (C of E) school that I must be part of … Read more