With many initiatives in place around the country to get people out of their cars and onto their bikes, research published today rates how dependent each region in England still is on the car. And for many it makes poor reading, with very few making the grade.The Campaign for Better Transport has rated English regions … Read more
The Bicycle Film Festival (BFF) enters its fifth year in London this month. The festival, which takes place at the Barbican Centre from Thursday, September 24, will screen several programmes that reflect diverse experiences involving the bicycle.Highlights from this year include: Where Are You Go, directed by Benny Zenga and Brian Vernor, I Love My … Read more
You know the full SP on compression gear by now, right? It’s designed to increase the flow of blood to your muscles and so improve your speed and power, and to help disperse waste products like lactic acid. Yes, it sounds far-fetched but this is a world where Noel Edmonds still makes a living on … Read more
Here’s something you don’t see every day, a fixed gear bike with child seat. This was locked outside the Natural History Museum…. loving the baby pink Oury grips, very retro.Flo K
Our latest upload of pictures from Eurobike features loads of interesting bikes from right across the spectrum of bikes that were on show from baby carriers, through electric bikes and right on to top end TT machines and it covers a really wide range of manufacturers, big, small, mainstream and esoteric.This group of pics in … Read more
Dutchman Kai Reus won the second stage of this year’s Tour of Britain from Darlington to Newcastle Gateshead on the break today and did so by enough of a margin to claim the overall lead in the General Classification too.Reus was part of the day’s pivotal break which contained yesterday’s escaper, Topsport-Vlaanderen’s Thomas De Gendt … Read more
Image © UnipublicVuelta Stage 14: Granada – La Pandera: 157KMDamiano Cunego of Lampre-NGC put a disappointing Saturday behind him to win his second stage of this year’s Vuelta on the summit finish of La Pandera this afternoon.Behind him, race leader Alejandro Valverde made a remarkable recovery to stretch his lead after seeming to have cracked … Read more
The Squire Urban Paramount boasts a Sold Secure Gold rating and a 10 year guarantee, so we were expecting a good level of protection, which it certainly delivers. However, our efforts attacking the lock, while we didn’t break it, rendered it useless for the next trip: not a good thing. The Urban Paramount is a … Read more
The first stage of the Tour of Britain went to one of the biggest teams in the race, Garmin Slipstream, if not to one of their best-known riders, Chris Sutton winning the 172Km stage from Scunthorpe to York in a sprint finish.Afterwards, Sutton descibed his win as “one of the highlights of my career, particularly … Read more
Image © UnipublicVuelta Stage 13: Berja – Sierra Nevada: 172KMDavid Moncoutié of Cofidis, the sole survivor of the day’s breakaway and riding in the claret leading climber’s jersey that he also won last year, deservedly took Stage 13 of the Vuelta on the Sierra Nevada this afternoon.But the real drama was unfolding behind him, as … Read more
