A 30lb Commencal hardtail. Not the weapon of choice for col bagging but that’s all the lady at the tourist office in Bedous could offer me, and at €10 a day I wasn’t really complaining: any bike is better than no bike.Our base for our family week in the Pyrenees, the Fontaines D’Escot, is smack … Read more
Went to the last club tt of the season. Not done much this season, two hilly’s and a two up. This was my first and last chance at the standard course. About to set off from thr club house and the heavens opened. Riding to the start felt OK but getting cold in the rain. By … Read more
With London’s Cycle Hire Scheme set to launch next summer the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) has proposed a Zone One ‘BikeGrid’ to make sure it is a success.The campaigners are calling for a network of safe, unbroken, high-quality cycle routes running north-south and east-west, with one complete central ring and LCC chief executive Koy Thomson … Read more
Image © UnipublicVuelta 2009 Stage 4: Venlo-Liège, 225KMColumbia-HTC got a second successive stage win as André Greipel won from Quick Step’s Wouter Weylandt amid appalling weather in Liege, as only seven riders – including three from each of those riders’ teams – managed to avoid a massive crash at a roundabout inside the final three … Read more
For many, when they think of taking a year out to travel, it involves plans to see a bit of the world, get a job picking fruit, and generally putting off getting a full-time job for as long as possible. For Kevin Shannon, though, it’s going to be a little different.Kevin is going to be … Read more
Greetings all. It is a funny old day today with me still thinking it is Monday.Oh how the bank holidays confuse me.It has been a bit of a frustrating one for me. Not only are my football club (and by my, I mean the one I support) about to cark it again, but my training was … Read more
Round-the-world cyclist James Bowthorpe is almost home. He has ridden 15,276 miles and has done 157 days so far since setting off from London at the end of March – and he only has 12 days to go. If it were a race, it would be the equivalent of seeing the finishing line in the … Read more
Amer Sports, the Finnish parent company of French bicycle component manufacturer Mavic, has confirmed that it is exploring options for the business, including a possible “divestiture” – financial-speak for a likely sale to a trade buyer, management team, or financial investor.Founded in 1889, Mavic pioneered the aluminium rim, which it introduced in 1926 and since … Read more
This is what we came for! Slap bang outside the new press centre the Viva Duro – singlespeed, double tubed, wooden rimed and fixed. It doesn’t get more retro with a twist than this. Not sure what happens if you leave the rims out in the rain, but it is from Denmark and it rains there … Read more
Team Garmin-Slipstream has announced it will be sponsored by POM Wonderful, the largest U.S. producer of the Wonderful variety pomegranates and maker of 100% pomegranate juice, for 2010.The announcement comes on the back of the American team’s excellent performance in the Tour de France, where it was second overall in the team classification, with riders … Read more
