Young Australian talent Jack Bobridge today set the fastest ever 4,000 metre individual pursuit time under current UCI rules, shattering by what in this event is a huge margin of six tenths of a second the record set by Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas in Manchester last October.Bobridge’s time of 4 minutes 15.764 seconds is the … Read more
Italy’s anti-doping authorities have hit Danilo di Luca with a two-year ban and fined the cyclist €280,000 as a result of his testing positive for CERA following two stages of last year’s Giro d’Italia.Di Luca, who spent eight days last May in the race leader’s maglia rosa, which he had won in 2007, finished second … Read more
Police have issued an appeal for witnesses after a cyclist was found lying unconscious with serious injuries in a street in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, last week.The 57-year-old, who has not been named, had been cycling along Otley Road last Thursday morning heading towards the Prince of Wales roundabout, and turned into Beech Grove, where he … Read more
Up to half of thefts of bicycles in England and Wales go unreported to the police, according ethical motoring organisation and sustainable transport lobby group, the Environmental Transport Association (ETA).According to latest figures from the Home Office, cycle theft rose 7% during the three months to September 2009, with 34,600 bikes reported stolen during that … Read more
A British cyclist who is pedalling more than 15,000 miles from London to Australia has been reunited with his bike after it was stolen in Singapore. Greg Browning, aged 25, originally from Hertfordshire but now based in Portsmouth, set off from the UK on his trip last February.Greg’s trip has taken him across Europe and … Read more
A US cycle shop has caught on video (see below) the moment a thief pulled a gun and made off with an $11,000 Pinarello Dogma, in an attack that local police say looks to be the work of professional criminals.It’s unlikely that armed robbery would figure on the list of ways to getting your hands … Read more
My heart sank and hit the cleats on my Sidis when I saw this. Here we go, a book full of “fashionable” types trying too hard in jeans two sizes too small and doing twicks on “fixies” claiming the genre as theirs. With spoke-cards. It’s safe to assume that the words ‘Fixed’ and ‘Culture’ do … Read more
Bicycle manufacturer Trek and treble Tour de France winner Greg Lemond have announced that they have settled their long-running legal dispute. The case had been due to go to court within the next few weeks, and it had been widely expected that Lance Armstrong would have been called as a witness.That’s because the roots of … Read more
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To paraphrase George Orwell, it was a case of four wheels good, two wheels better at Thursday night’s launch of the 2010 Rapha Condor Sharp cycling team at the Classic Car Club on London’s Old Street.Surrounded by a host of eye-catching cars including vehicles by classic marques such as Jaguar and Mercedes, the assembled throng … Read more
