Bontrager’s RXL short is an upper mid range short aimed at the enthusiast road rider and represents a considerable improvement over cheaper eight panel designs. The fitted design incorporates Contra, Profil and micromesh fabrics to offer an unrestrictive, contoured fit and from the outset feels a notable improvement over traditional full Lycra. However, their muscle … Read more
Being a self confessed kit-test junkie I jumped at the chance of playing with £2,500 worth of bespoke titanium road bike and can safely say I wasn’t disappointed. The Burls range of Ti frames are available in various configurations including, road, track, audax and mtb and either off the peg or totally bespoke with a … Read more
Yellow jerseys won by Lance Armstrong and vintage footage of the cycling star’s early forays into cycling on his first bicycle are among items seized in bankruptcy proceedings against the Sports Museum of America.To make matters worse, Lance and other stars who “loaned” personal sporting memorabilia to the Manhattan-based museum, are being asked to pay … Read more
Cycling’s Olympic and Commonwealth medalists of the future could have started out dreaming of becoming the next David Beckham. Apprentice footballers who fail to make it as professionals could transfer their sporting skills to cycling under the Pitch2Podium scheme run by UK Sport, the English and Scottish Institutes of Sport and partners within the football … Read more
Sometimes you gotta grab your bike by the short and curlies and let it know who’s boss.teabagsontoptubes(possible ‘Not Safe For Work’ content, actually, ‘Not Safe For Pretty Much Anywhere’)
Not much remarked on, but this week the imminent death of the fixed gear bike as the ultimate badge of style was announced in the Times. It’s obituary penned by fixed gear rider Richard Caseby, who briefly mourned its passing before moving on to big up Fifties-style French courier bikes as the next big thing… … Read more
Bimbling home on the Africabike last night and a road bike buzzed past me on the steep bit of the railway bridge. So I did the sums. Running shorts, trainers, rucksack. It was a Claud Butler, the rear tyre looked a bit flat. But it was a road bike, for sure. And I was on … Read more
Good quality one-inch components are getting scarcer but if Woodman’s Jupiter Aheadset is anything to go by, they’re not about to disappear just yet. Weighing 156g, the Jupiter will suit anyone needing a bombproof headset and I can understand its popularity amongst the single speed fraternity. The unique, inverted crown race shields super smooth needle … Read more
Having narrowly avoided collision with a Greek Orthodox nun appearing from the ruins of a local monastery last night, her choice of footwear and sudden contemplation of the afterlife at 28mph induced memories of riding a mountain bike race wearing Jesus Boots.Yes indeed, I’ve had an original Shimano SPD pair go pretty much around the … Read more
A “ghost bike” was set to be placed at the accident blackspot where a woman cyclist died under the wheels of a cement mixer.Friends and colleagues of talented trainee architect Rebecca Goossen were due to walk the white painted bike to the junction of Old Street and Goswell Road, yesterday (Wednesday), according to the Islington … Read more
