Fancy a job helping people get on their bikes? If you do the CTC would like to hear from you. They are looking for the right people to help them run their new Bike Club Programme. You’ll need to hurry though because applications need to be in by 18 May.Over the next two and a … Read more
Mark Cavendish became the first British rider to pull on the Maglia Rosa after his Columbia Highroad team led from the front to take the team time trial victory on a 20km course along the Venetian seafront. Cavendish, who led the team over the line, takes the overall lead.Talking after the win, Cavendish said, “I’m … Read more
Only weeks after winning his third Paris Roubaix, former world champion Tom Boonen has been suspended by his team, Quick Step after a drugs test by Flemish authorities proved positive for cocaine use.”He is suspended from all activities by the team,” Alessandro Tegner, a Quick Step’s representative said.Boonen also failed a drugs test last year … Read more
Bontrager’s Air Support Road is another lightweight mini pump genuinely capable of delivering 100 PSI in 150 strokes and five minutes and would be my choice for those that want something that works well and looks good.The extensive use of alloy gives a reassuringly solid feel and the intricately machined T handle offers surprisingly good … Read more
Having been blast cleaned by Graham the week previously, it was time for the zinc-chromate primer. For those of us “out on our bikes” during O level chemistry, zinc is an extremely effective corrosion inhibitor-hence its popularity in marine and similarly challenging environments.Loading the gun with chromate, he chases around the teenage dream in a mist … Read more
The London Cycling Campaign has called upon Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick to speed up the fitting of Class VI safety mirrors to all HGVs, however the Department for Transport says that any change would have to be agreed Europe-wide.The mirrors give a view of the road directly in front of the driver’s cab and … Read more
Youngsters in Luton are being given free walking and cycling maps to encourage them to adopt healthier lifestyles.Sustainable transport charity Sustrans is distributing the free maps to schools across the town – which has higher than the national average levels of childhood obesity.The campaign started in South Luton and Farley, which the NHS Luton Obesity Management … Read more
The home of the inventor of the pedal cycle is celebrating its prestigious links by staging The Original Bicycle Festival this month. The fortnight-long homage to pedal power takes place between May 9-24, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, the birthplace of Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan, widely credited as the inventor of the pedal bicycle.The first pedal … Read more
New figures out today show that while cycling has become much safer over the past 15 years, danger levels experienced a sharp 11 per cent increase in the three years to 2007.The report shows different trends for different groups with the overall levels of deaths and serious injuries on the roads falling by 11 per … Read more
sit on the edge of the bath, hot as you dare. shaving; calming, reverential, tradition. a cosset and a gentle pamper towards the leg, a visual MOT, a chance to glide over a history of scars, little postcards of pain.a bit of love. time. a quiet ceremony; dim bathroom light, a soft radio only punctuated … Read more
