Cyclists Stefan Schumacher and Davide Rebellin are appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to have their disqualifications from the Beijing Olympics following positive tests for CERA rescinded.Both have protested their innocence ever since the positive results, in both cases ascertained following retesting of the original samples, were revealed earlier this year.Rebellin finished … Read more
The introduction of 20mph zones in parts of London has led to a reduction of almost a fifth in the number of accidents involving cyclists in London, according to research published in medical journal, the BMJ.The study found that introducing 20mph zones led to a 41.9% fall in the number of road casualties, with the … Read more
Come winter, cold feet are the bane of every cyclist’s life, mine especially. Thicker socks can reduce blood circulation, ironically causing cold feet when you’d hope to cure them, and I find overshoes can be a bit of a faff, and never where they’re supposed to be when you need them. So, a fully winterized … Read more
British Cycling performance director, Dave Brailsford has attacked the decision by UK Sport to cut the funding for top Olympic sports in the run-up to London 2012, including a £500,000 cut in funding for cycling.Speaking to the Guardian Brailsford said that London 2012 that the Sport UK’s emphasis on using funding to increase participation in … Read more
Comtat’s Ultra-light Carbon Bottle Cage certainly lives up to its name, weighing in at a mere 26g. The cage is constructed of a lacquered 3K carbon weave, which results in a high gloss black finish with the carbon weave showing through and the Comtat name picked out in white script.From a purely aesthetic viewpoint, it … Read more
Rollapaluza have announced the dates for the second round of their roller racing National Series and of the eagerly anticipated second season of the Brass Monkey London League.National SeriesRollapaluza roll up to Swansea on the 7th of January for the Welsh leg of their national tour dedicated to finding the King of spin and the … Read more
Complete with discrete Surly logo, the Braker is basically a stainless steel paperclip on steroids but the perfect replacement for chrome plated seat/cable hanger bolts commonly found on cyclo cross and touring bikes. It’s also a really elegant solution to the problem of running cantilevers on frames built for linear pulls. That said anyone with … Read more
Conventional wisdom has it that dry lubes are for fine, dry conditions. Fair enough, but this is Britain and we don’t have a balmy Californian climate, we have weather in all its moist and infinite variety and any lube is going to have to earn its keep.It’s only fair to point out that Muc-Off only … Read more
Still stuck for ideas for your Christmas list? Well the chaps at Rouleur have anticipated that, and commissioned a range of tees from ace illustrator Richard Mitchelson, he of the Eddy Merckx animation we featured a while back.You can have Eddy of course, and there’s also José Manuel Fuente, Felice Gimondi, Greg Lemond, Laurent Fignon and … Read more
A sturdy steel-framed performer that’s easy to fit and fuss-free to use, the ETC Grand Tour is a good budget choice if you’re looking for something a bit better built than an own-brand unit from the local auto superstore. It does put some load on the rear window though, and if you want to avoid … Read more
