Today’s mountain stage at the 2009 Daupiné Libéré from Gap – Briançon went to a Frenchman, Pierrick Fedrigo of Bbox-Bouygues Telecom, but a Spaniard, Alejandro Valverde still has the overall race lead.Fedrigo got in the early stage breakaway and won a sprint for the line over the Belgian Jurgen Van de Walle (Quick Step) – the … Read more
I’m a sucker for nice bike animations and this tickled me: it’s from illustrator Richard Mitchelson, and he says, “It is based around Eddy Merckxs’ hour record set in Mexico city in 1972 when he travelled 49.431km in the hour.”
The organisers of the London BikeTube scheme say they will organise more of them, even if there’s no Underground dispute.The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) is hailing the BikeTube idea a success. More than 100 cyclists rode to work collectively from various meeting points, giving the chance for novice cyclists to experience London traffic in the … Read more
Leave the Lycra in the laundry basket, dig out that gel-filled seat cover and experience the dubious thrill of riding through your home city completely starkers. This weekend sees the arrival of the World Naked Bike Ride and cyclists across the UK will be celebrating it with displays of the, erm, body beautiful and imaginative … Read more
Well it turns out (not that we weren’t expecting it to be so) that there’s not as many of you up for a proper big adventure as there are wanting to pocket some free stuff. But eight hardy souls are game for for a bit of beautiful mid-Wales scenery and a few lung-bursting hills to … Read more
World champion rider Greg LeMond has predicted the end of cycling as an Olympic sport because of the on-going row over doping.LeMond, 47, told a sports conference in Coventry that cycling is on a “slow death march” and that widespread doping might damage the sport’s reputation permanently.“In 20 years,” he said, “drugs will have damaged … Read more
Earlier this year Mavic recalled all of its first generation R-Sys front wheels when some wheels failed under certain conditions. The wheels had passed all of Mavic’s existing safety tests however the company’s engineers devised a new test replicating those conditions in the lab and confirmed that there was a weakness in the original design … Read more
We reviewed the Merlin Cielo last month and racing tester Roger Blessed described it as ‘A fabulous frameset built to incredibly high standards’ If you missed the review you can see it here, and we’ve put together a short vid to talk you through this rather lovely frameset.
The chance to cycle a motor-racing track in Wiltshire is being offered as part of a charity event for African schools.The Castle Combe race circuit near Chippenham is the venue for the event, held by Chippenham and District Wheelers cycling club on the evening of June 16, that’s next Tuesday.The Midsummer Bike Night will see … Read more
UK commuters who choose their bikes over their cars can save up to two days of journey time over a year, a study has found.The organisers of National Bike Week, which begins tomorrow (June 13), reckon that the 69 per cent of people who travel to work by car spent almost nine days of the … Read more
