Giant Chairman and co-founder King Liu believes in bikes, and has campaigned to promote cycling in Taiwan and China. This Saturday the 75-year-old businessman is going to match words with deeds when he sets off on an 1,668-kilometre (1036 miles) cycling tour through China to promote the positive benefits of the cycling lifestyle.Liu starts his … Read more
Cyclist, broadcaster and CTC president Jon Snow launches the cycling organisation’s Safety in Numbers research in Parliament today. The launch is the CTC’s chance to put forward hard facts to MPs and interested parties proving that more cycling means safer cycling.The cycling organisation aims to win support for amendments to the recently released draft Road … Read more
This is the sum total of my efforts to mount some very fetching folding test rubber to my common or garden Mavic wheelset. Never in the history of tyre fitting, (notwithstanding my notoriously stubborn downhill rim and XC tyre combination) has a 700×23 with the supplest of casings induced this degree of carnage, let alone … Read more
Cannondale Hooligan (Liquigas Mechanic Edition) (spy shot brazenly stolen from the twitter/facebook of Cannondale’s Michael Cotty)
This new compact version of FSAs extremely popular K-Wing bar provide a good looking, comfortable and responsive set of carbon drops.By compact, I mean that FSA have shortened the reach from 90mm to 78mm and the drop goes down from 145mm to 125mm. The shallow nature of the drops make it ideal for smaller riders … Read more
Last weekend went to Powys for a weekend away with Herself. One afternoon we visited Llandrindod Wells and stumbled across the National Cycle museum. I had no idea it was there and spent an hour or so wandering around looking a bikes from the 1800’s to the last 10 years or so. Not a lot of carbon fibre there.
Interesting to see the changes in design. In one sense bikes from 100 years ago look very similar to todays bikes and yet looking closely even bikes from 20+ years ago have significant changes, down tube shifters and toeclips.
Check out the bespoke caps from Spoke Punchers, I love bikes and bike clothing as individual pieces of art and cycling as a pure form of self expression.www.spokepunchers.comFlo K
Have you seen a four-year-old Scott Hybrid, black and silver with blue bands on the top and down tubes? Answers to the name of “old friend”. It’s probably somewhere in west London, although I just spotted one parked up while nipping to the shops here in Bath…Anyway. If you have seen such a bike looking … Read more
Parking at British railway stations may never be the same again if a new Dutch-style Cyclepoint which launches at next year at Leeds station is a success.In Holland Cyclepoints (they are called Fietspoints over there) combine a secure cycle parking garage with a bike shop. The first UK Cyclepoint will be run by Northern Rail … Read more
This year’s Tour of Britain will start in Yorkshire and finish in London eight days later en route it will visit the North East, followed by a first visit to the Scottish Borders, then the North West, then two stages in South West England leading up to the finale in London. There will also be … Read more
