Here’s an exclusive on something rather exclusive – the Enigma Yatesy, a new steel and carbon frameset made in a limited edition of 25 inspired by, and with design input from, cycling legend, Sean Yates.Enigma’s designer and framebuilder, Mark Reilly has built Sean’s personal bikes for many years now, and he is acknowledged as a … Read more
London 2012 Deliver Authority this morning launched its walking and cycling strategy, hot on the heels of the Welsh Assembly and their walking and cycling strategy which also launched this morning. That would seem to be the way it is with walking and cycling strategies – you wait ages for one and then two turn … Read more
Five years after he last toured the UK, intrepid comedian Dave Gorman is hitting the road once again, but this time he’s doing it by bike. Literally covering the length and breadth of the country – North to South and East to West – Dave is planning to cycle 1500 miles in 32 days, with … Read more
There is nothing better than a late winter holiday to get some sun on your bones and to get the motivation for cycling back.
I wasn’t yearing too much for my bike whilst relaxing in Spain and then on a mountain drive back to the coast from Girona I saw it.
Simple white letters painted on a road to one of the peaks used in the Volta e Catalunya last summer.
“Hincapie”
The Pro Expert WP is a comfortable and fairly warm winter glove that benefits from an internal membrane to keep the water (and wind) off your digits. It’s not a bulky glove and doesn’t restrict movement like some better insulated options, so it’s a good choice if the weather isn’t really Arctic. When the mercury … Read more
Wales gets a new walking and cycling strategy this morning and to coincide with it Sustrans launches a bilingual Active Travel workplace toolkit aimed at helping Welsh employers to improve their health and productivity by walking or cycling to work.The two events were combined at a launch this morning at the Wales Millennium Centre in … Read more
The racing continued right until the end of another great day at the Tour of California when the dust had settled, Frank Schleck had the stage win and Levi Leipheimer was once again the ‘King of California’ winning the Tour of California for the third year in a row.Everything was still in play at the … Read more
The past few evenings have seen me confined to the garage for the annual rust-proofing of my fleet. For those unfamiliar with this ritual, it involves standing a five litre drum of gloop in a bucket of boiling water for about twenty minutes in the hope of it liquefying to the point it can be … Read more
Sounds and vision (nice slide show) of Chris Hoy taking Radio 4 business presenter Adrian Shaw and the chairman of Citigroup Sir Wyn Bishchoff around the Manchester Velodrome. Bischoff is a big fan of what British Cycling have acheived and wanted to see if there were any lessons the business world could learn… well, BC … Read more
Rinaldo Nocentini (AG2R) won a thrilling game of cat and mouse on the streets of Pasadena to win Stage 7 of the Amgen Tour of Calironaia ahead of Hayden Roulston of Cervelo Test Team and Pieter Weening of Rababonk.The story of Stage 7 which covered the 88.9 miles (143Km) from Santa Clarita to Pasadena was … Read more
