David Moncoutie won today’s seventh stage of the Dauphiné Libéré today, but Alejandro Valverde retained the leader’s yellow jersey after resisting a day attacks from his Australian challenger Cadel Evans.Moncoutie (Cofidis) was the sole survivor of what had been a 27 man breakaway with the big three challengers for the overall Evans, Valverde and Contador … Read more
British Cycling’s Executive Director Peter King has been made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), and fellow British Cycling member and former National Manager of the Paralympic Team Tony Yorke received an OBE.Their award come hot on the heels of last week’s Investiture Ceremony which saw seven members of British Cycling receive the honours … Read more
Children deserve good quality clothing too but Polaris recognise not everyone wants to look like their Dad’s Tour De France idol and most parents haven’t the income of champions. Enter the drifter; it’s very much a lad’s jersey bristling with street cred and change from seventeen quid is good value. The Drifter is an mtb … Read more
Hutchison very kindly sent us a set of their Fusion 2 tubeless tyres, complete with all the gubbins that you need to convert your wheels and get rolling without your inner tubes: special rim tape, valves and latex sealant. So yours truly was chosen as the guinea pig, and I set to work attempting to … Read more
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
