A cyclist was taken to hospital following a crash with an ambulance answering a 999 call in Bristol.The ambulance was on the way to the house of an old man who had fallen when the collision occurred. The cyclist was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to the Bristol Royal Infirmary by a … Read more
A quarrel about the licensing of a charity ride has spiralled out of control in Colorado, US, with Jefferson County commissioners now seeking legislation to give them the power to ban cyclists from roads of their choice. The legislation would be state-wide, with Lance Armstrong’s Aspen training grounds also under threat.The argument started when a … Read more
A school in Derby will be offering a special addition to its GSCE in Physical Education from next term – cycling.From September, Sinfin Community School will include cycling in its PE courses, giving pupils the chance to gain a qualification in two-wheeled skills.The school – a specialist engineering college – already has its own cyclo-cross … Read more
A former world champion cyclist is campaigning for the clean up of a cycle path near Warwick.Mick Ives, 69, who was World Masters Cyclo Cross Champion five times and won more than 50 British titles, says a ‘dangerous’ path between a motorway bridge is making his ride to Warwick difficult.The path between the M40 motorway … Read more
Intrepid round-the-world charity cyclist James Bowthorpe is now in Canada after a quick blast around New Zealand – once he’d discovered that flights to Vancouver from NZ only went three times a week.New Zealand, he reported, was sunny but cold and although he was constantly hitting his 120 miles a day target he found the … Read more
The success of the Bike Tube scheme during the recent Underground strikes has prompted the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) to run more ‘Tubes’ this summer.Although organisers are currently staying tight-lipped over dates and locations, it has been announced the 10 Tubes a week for 10 weeks will be run in an attempt to encourage novice … Read more
Wednesday night and up to the big city on a tip-off that Charge were giving London’s beautiful bike people the chance to see some of next year’s bikes and bits at an invitation only do with “no bike journos” the door policy, well I like a challenge, and a free drink so off to London…To … Read more
The lawyer for Olympic gold medal cyclist Tyler Hamilton has condemned a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appeal to ban him for life for doping as ‘vindictive, personal and ruthless.’Attorney Chris Manderson made the comments after he learned that WADA had challenged a previous agreement between Hamilton and the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to impose an … Read more
Details are sketchy at the moment but Team Astana have confirmed that Levi Leipheimer, who was involved in a fairly innocuous looking stack in the last 2km of yesterday’s stage to Vittel, has suffered a broken wrist and won’t be able to start today’s stage.Leipheimer was lying fourth behind Nocentini, Contador and Armstrong and it’s … Read more
I’ll admit, when they said to me ‘Hey up TR, we want you to review a play about Armstrong, Ullrich and Pantani at the Tour de France, it’s in a disused warehouse in the West End and they’re going to re-enact the Tour, but without any bikes…but with audience participation” “Uh-oh” was my first reaction.Shows … Read more
