Plans for the Mayor of London’s Cycle Hire scheme moved a step closer today (27 April), as Transport for London began submitting planning applications for around 400 cycle docking stations – the locations where people will be able to pick-up and drop-off hire bikes in central London.Together with the various London boroughs involved and the … Read more
Standing at the side of the Leicestershire roads yesterday afternoon it hit home to me why Cycle Sportives had become so popular.
Here were a group of pro and elite riders suffering over the same roads as I had done one day previously.
Friday evening and the first of the summer’s Hove Park crits put on by [url=http://brightonmitre.typepad.com/]Brighton Mitre[/url].
I’ve been looking forward to these as I very much enjoyed last years races and their cut and thrust and pain and glory and humiliation, but continued (insert the oedipal noun here) illness has put the caibosh on all that today.
Cockbobbins.
British rider Ian Wilkinson scored an impressive win against the best ever field assembled at the East Midlands International CiCLE Classic today, 26th April. The 30-year-old multiple British mountain biking champion used his experience to overcome high profile opposition at Britain’s biggest one-day international cycle race.The 157.8km route, starting in Oakham and finishing in Melton, … Read more
Sustrans today launched its Active Travel workplace toolkit to coincide with the first ever Walk to Work Week. The toolkit also contains a wealth of advice on how employers can encourage their staff to cycle to work too.Employers can now pick up a step by step guide to improving their workforce’s health and productivity by … Read more
The Revolution Contact two-way pedals are a quasi bear-trap design with a cleat binding on one-side and flat on the other, so you can use cycling shoes for more aggressive riding and trainers for running errands.Cup and cone bearings turn on sturdy cro-moly axles but in common with many budget models benefit from a strip … Read more
Team Saxo Bank broke their 2009 classics duck at the final attempt when Andy Schleck solo’d to victory, to win the final classic race of the season, Liege Bastogne Liege. Joaquim Rodriguez of Caisse d’Epargne, claimed second place and David Rebellin (Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androgni Giocatolli) won the sprint for third.The decisive action of the race … Read more
As I write Globe cyclists, James Bowthorpe just notched up his 2800th mile on the 29th day of his journey with 140 to go if he is to achieve the record in the schedule he has set himself.James is now into the Asian leg of his journey riding through south eastern Turkey hoping to reach … Read more
Designed for high intensity racing, Specialized’s flagship mitt, the BG Pro glove, will also delight tourists, audax, sportive and other mile munchers. Thin, yet surprisingly robust mesh backs are married to synthetic Camino leather palms with patented BG padding guarding against pain and numbness around the Ulnar nerve.Fit is second skin snug, requiring greater effort … Read more
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
