Work to build a velodrome for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow – Scotland’s first indoor cycling facility – has started.The Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, plus an indoor sports arena, will be constructed on a ten and a half acre site close to Celtic Park in the city’s east end, which will also be close … Read more
Olympic Champion Victoria Pendleton has signed a deal with bakers Hovis to promote its famous bread, you can watch her talk about the new ad in the video below.The 29-year-old six times World Champion, Commonwealth Champion and Olympic gold winner has recreated Hovis’s famous TV ad from the 1970s, featuring a delivery boy pushing his … Read more
Team RadioShack today released a video starring their new team jersey and with their main man, Lance Armstrong in cameo supporting role. Dodgeball it ain’t (which may or may not be a good thing depending on your point of view) and like the jersey itself the vid may well divide opinion – judge for yourself … Read more
We won’t see any of Team Sky’s riders racing for real in their swish new kit until the Tour Down Under begins in less than a fortnight’s time, but Chris Sutton has already given a sign that he’s starting the new season where he left off in 2009 by winning the Jayco Bay Criterium Series … Read more
A lecturer at the University of Oxford has called on the driver of a white van who knocked him off his bike and drove away, leaving him lying in the road, to turn himself into police.Dr James McMullen’s bicycle helmet was smashed in the incident, leading the academic to believe that had he not been … Read more
There is more than one use for ODI lock on end caps and a Condor cotton cap.Flo K
A mixed bag, this one. On the one hand we found it in the park last time it was snowing, and it’s been waiting in the cupboard ever since, so it’s not like we had to fork out our hard-earned or anything. For general going downhill duties it put up with plenty of runs and … Read more
Josie Dew has racked up 350,000 miles and counting on her bike – that’s the equivalent of doing the Tour de France more than 150 times, so she’s got plenty to say about cycling, and she’ll be doing just that when she gives a talk and answers questions in aid of Sustrans in London’s Smithfield … Read more
News to warm a cyclist on a cold day, the CTC is extending its festive gift membership offer of a free Combi Fleece Buff until the 15th of January.So if you fancy giving someone special* the double benefits of toasty headwear/neckwear and CTC membership simply call 0844 736 8451 and quote the code: Buff (tell … Read more
Evans Cycles has told us that its Chieveley Ride It! Event, due to take place this weekend, has fallen victim to the weather and has had to be cancelled.With Southern England currently resembling a scene from the movie The Day After Tomorrow – minus the marauding pack of wolves, hopefully – and more snow forecast … Read more
