A 170-mile circular cycleway around the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is set to open this summer following the award of £48,000 funding from the European Union and British government.Cyclists have welcomed news of the route’s opening, and believe that it may encourage even more people to take to their bikes.The route, which passes … Read more
This burly courier bag from Lezyne is full of neat touches and is well put together to boot. You can fit a decent load in it and your kit will stay dry too. It’s not at its best when overpacked but for medium sized loads and the daily commute it’s a hard-wearing workhorse.The Messenger Caddy … Read more
Team Sky launched in London today – and management and riders once again re-iterated their goal of winning the Tour de France within 5 years. They will have Ben Swift to help them do that, as widely anticipated after a photo of him in the new British outfit’s jersey was leaked yesterday, Swift was confirmed … Read more
Seeing the pictures on the newly launched Team Sky official website (the supporters site here is well worth a look too by the way) started me dreaming… could this year be the year a Briton wins the Tour de France?My initial thoughts were sadly not. Despite the clearly glitzy launch (which no doubt Dave and … Read more
The port and stilton are distant memories and the Quality Street box is already full of washers and grommets: time to put Christmas behind us and look forward to the new year. What are your cycling goals? If one of them is the Fred Whitton Challenge then you’re certainly not alone: entries open today and … Read more
Cambridge has been named the UK’s bike theft capital in a report by Cambridgeshire County Council, with almost 2,500 bicycles stolen there each year, equivalent to one every three-and-a-half hours. Oxford was named as the second worst city for bike theft, with Reading coming in third.The report looked at the ratio of reported bike thefts … Read more
A London doctor will tomorrow embark on the ultimate long-distance cycle ride, planning to ride 50,000 miles over the next five years to raise £50,000 for the medical aid agency, Merlin. That’s getting on for three times the distance that the likes of Mark Beaumont and James Bowthorpe have ridden in setting records for the … Read more
1,020g for the pair – that’s how much these high-end carbon wheels weigh in at. The manufacturers’ claimed weight is actually 999g +/-5% for the carbon coloured versions. The white versions here have a claimed weight of 1040g, and ours fall comfortably under that although admittedly that’s excluding skewers. To give that figure some context, … Read more
Spanish website Biciclismo is reporting that Ben Swift has definitely signed for Team Sky – and claims to have photographic proof with what it says is a picture of Swift in a Team Sky shirt.Having jumped the gun a little back in November when it seemed that Swift was about to sign for the new … Read more
A cycling photographer who sought out remnants of the old Iron Curtain, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, has produced a book about his trip.Paul Kaye, a translator who works in Brussels, is fascinated by Cold War history and decided to ride the 2,237 miles which marked the border between the West … Read more
