Well, last week we left round-the-world charity cyclist James Bowthorpe in Australia and….he’s still in Australia, slogging it out through cities and countryside and, pleasingly, on target to arrive in Sydney next Tuesday, June 30.He’s now past the half way stage and while this is a milestone, he has found it has been marked with … Read more
What is thought to be the UK’s first all-women evening cycle race is to take place in the Somerset seaside town of Minehead in August.The Minehead Nocturne, on the evening of August 7, offers a first prize of £500.Up to 60 professional female cyclists will battle it out over 30 laps on the 1.6km circuit … Read more
The saga of so-called speeding cyclists on Bournemouth’s promenade continues with the news that a cyclist has been arrested by police after an alleged collision – with the resort’s seafront chief.According to the Bournemouth Echo, eyewitnesses reported seeing police officers setting up a makeshift trap to apprehend a male cyclist.The operation followed reports that seafront manager … Read more
Rather than just concentrate on the palmares of Italy’s greatest cycling hero, greatest sporting hero even, William Fotheringham’s new book, Fallen Angel tackles Fausto Coppi’s whole life, a life seemingly dogged by tragedy and conflict, from being born into a poor farming family to his premature death from malaria 40 years later to give a … Read more
The CTC has given its backing to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis’s plan to create ‘cycling hubs’ at 10 major UK railway stations.As we reported yesterday, £5 million has been earmarked for the scheme after Adonis visited cycle/rail hubs in Holland and later cycled round London to see for himself the woeful state of bike storage … Read more
Swiss rider Dani Wyss has won the 2009 Race Across America (RAAM) with the second quickest time in RAAM history: 8 days, 5 hours and 45 minutes. Favourite Jure Robic withdrew from the race after the two riders had been neck and neck, handing the victory to Wyss.It was Robic who made the early running, … Read more
Brighton cyclist Jo Brooksbank decided to encourage more women to take up cycling – by jumping into the sea and riding her bike under the seaside city’s pier.The 43-year-old, a transport officer for Brighton council, is an experienced diver and a qualified cycling instructor and decided to combine her two interests into one slightly bizarre … Read more
We’ve had a lot on our plate what with moving servers and associated faffing, but things have calmed down enough for us to fire up the random number generator and pick five names from the e-Hat: those five people will be sporting funky Halo Twin Rail tyres very soon, and they are: Trek Salgrantsc129806 (catchy!)robdeanhovewatercrookCongrats to … Read more
Cycling is growing and it’s getting safer too is the CTC’s interpretation of two sets of Department for Transport figures released yesterday. Combining the statistics for road casualties in 2008 with a separate set of statistics on Traffic Speeds and Congestion does seem to show that while cycling grew by 12 per cent (taking a … Read more
Remember the barrier in the picture above? Bath & North East Somerset council erected it in their infinite wisdom (see this blog) to try and stop motorbikes crossing a footbridge in Bath. Not that the motorbikes were a big problem: the footway used to be a road so it’s nice and wide, and the ‘bikes … Read more
