Former Saxo Bank rider Marcus Ljungqvist has signed for Team Sky as a sports director. The Swede is the latest addition to the team’s management line-up after it was announced that highly experienced Dutch rider Steven De Jongh is also on board in a similar position.Ljungqvist retired at the end of the season and turned down … Read more
Never ones to not fix an ain’t-broke thing, we’ve been tinkering behind the scenes at road.cc to see what we can improve. The list is pretty long but we’re working our way through it… first up we’ve added a zoom capability to all our image galleries.Whenever you click on an image on the site to … Read more
London Mayor Boris Johnson is convinced the London Cycle Hire Scheme will be a success when it opens next summer. Mayor Boris was speaking as he faced questions about his 354-page draft Transport Strategy for London from the London Assembly’s Transport Committee in The Chamber at City Hall today. The Committee asked the Mayor about … Read more
Tinto Primary School has become the first school in South Lanarkshire in Scotland to set up a cycle train. The alternative method for children to travel to and from school takes its idea from a walking bus, but instead of adults walking at the front and rear of the group of children, everyone is on … Read more
Garmin have today announced that it has extended its title sponsorship of the ProTour cycling team Team Garmin-Slipstream for an additional three years. Jon Cassat, Garmin’s vice president of communications, said: “The success of the team spans the globe and surpassed our expectations for the first year and a half of our title sponsorship, bringing … Read more
Twix Tea lady Rebecca Wass is hoping her Land’s End to John O’Groats cycle will put her in the record books – for the longest tea run in history. Her mission was to share a brew with as many people as possible and Rebecca gave out 8,000 cuppas and twix’ on the way to raise … Read more
When Myles McCorry and Andy Layhe launched Bike Pure, which campaigns for a clean future for cycle sport, a little over 12 months ago, meeting heads of state was the last thing on their minds – but that’s exactly what happened last night as they picked up a Social Entrepreneurs Award in Dublin from Irish … Read more
The New Forest 100 sportive is organised by UK Cycling Events and sponsored by Wilier – they of the rather nice Italian bikes – and while there may not be many Giro-style climbs in this part of the world, it’s definitely a great place for riding a bike.It’s been ages since I cycled in the … Read more
People walking and taking their bikes through Mile End Park will get the chance to sample a brand new bridge from today with the official opening of the Sustrans Connect2 Bridge across the Regents Canal in Tower Hamlets. The bridge is part of what will eventually become a two-mile greenway linking Bethnal Green through to … Read more
Japan, the country that brought us Karaoke, the Tamagotchi virtual pet and the Nintendo Wii, has a reputation for putting a technological spin on the kind of activity – singing, raising a pet, or keeping fit – that many of us prefer to carry out in real life, and now Honda’s boffins have turned their … Read more
