ITALIAN cyclist Leonardo Piepoli has been handed an immediate ban after testing positive for a banned substance at last year’s Tour de France.The Italian Olympic Committee’s anti-doping tribunal said the two-year ban will end on January 25, 2011.Piepoli, who won the 10th stage of the Tour de France, tested positive on July 4 and July … Read more
So, he’s back http://www.cyclingnews.com/interviews.php?id=riders/2009/interviews/floyd_landis_jan09
If it’s not a comeback what is it? Lance (looking after his fellow American buddy a little) recently stated that poor old Floyd deserves the same welcome back that Dave Millar got after his mis-demeanours with the banned stuff.
We went to Core, and this is what we saw… Click on an image caption to see the full-size pic.
First day back on the bike after a week due to illness. I am usually reasonably healthy but an evening spent with a couple of mates with youung children may have been my undoing. I drove into work yesterday as I was not fully recovered – how do people cope with all the traffic every day?
Anyway, today was cold and a little foggy as I set off for the office. As I went over a foot/cycle bridge into the city looking at the inner ring road below seeing the cars below it was a good feeling, a little smile inside.
If you told her that the first time you met your new partner she was totally naked.
We’ve just uploaded our first image gallery from Core, with pictures of the latest bikes from Kinesis. This year the company has introduced a line of bikes specifically designed for the UK which will go under the KuK brand name.The Decade range of road and mountain bikes heads up the KuK line-up for 2009, we … Read more
RiBMo? that’ll stand for ‘RIde Bicycle MOre’ then, as if you couldn’t guess. Luckily the acronym is the worst thing about this urban runner though, which has proved itself tough and grippy around town.The RiBMo is Panaracer’s first tyre with a Protex shield, which the makers claim is three times as puncture resistant as an … Read more
Rapha Condor the UK’s top ranked pro team have unveiled their 2009 line-up and the accent is very much building on the team’s strengths as they seek to progress to the next level. Joining established riders Olympic bronze medallist Chris Newton, National Criterium champion Dean Downing and Tour of Britain star Kristian House, are a number … Read more
Everyone of a certain age remembers the Fisher Space Pen, a multi-million dollar project to create a biro using pressurised ink that would work in space. And it did. The irony, of course, was that normal biros don’t stop working in space: the ink is drawn down by capillary action, not gravity. The moral? Don’t … Read more
If you fancy some competitive roller action this Friday, the bad news is that entries are full for Rollapaluza’s Kingspin 2 event at the Kingpin suite in central London. The good news is though that spectator tickets are still available so you can pop along, soak up the vibe and work up a sweat enjoying … Read more
