Cycling equipment brand Maxgear.co.uk has added to its list of high profile sponsorship deals by becoming an official equipment supplier to Nicole Cooke’s Vision1 Racing team.The women’s road racing team, formed by Nicole Cooke to allow her to continue working with the support staff who helped her become Olympic and World Champion, will work with … Read more
British professional cycling entered a new era this week (no, not Tony Gibb’s haircut and the Plowman Craven team launch!!) when “Team Sky” was launched.
The principle being to take the winning formula of “Team GB”, mainly on the track, and turn it into a road based squad capable of winning the Tour de France.
The national newspapers were mentioning names such as Steve Cummings and Bradley Wiggins coming in to lead the team, but Dave Brailsford (Team GB Performance Director) was a bit more coy mentioning the possibility of continental based pros being part of the roster.
When you are sent a bike that is heralded as the ‘ultimate do everything bike’ you can’t help but be intrigued and a little bit excited.What makes this bike so versatile is how many identities it can adopt. It has clearance for up to 700 x 42c tires or you can fit a set of … Read more
Excellent sequence of pics of Lance Armstrong “dealing” with the man from UCI doping control… at least I think that’s who he is, he certainly looks like he’s got the official uniform and UCI issue sampling equipment.
Britain’s largest one-day race, the East Midlands International CiCLE Classic, returns on Sunday, April 26, and has already attracted considerable European interest.CiCLE is reminiscent of the Spring ‘classic’ races in northern France and Belgium with its riders required to negotiate narrow and treacherous farm tracks, as well as roads threading through the beautiful villages of … Read more
Memory Map has long been one of our favourite mapping systems for riding on the road. The service has now been extended to include a new way of buying mapping, called Digital Map Shop.It used to be the case that you bought huge tranches of the UK (such as Southern England, or Wales) on DVD, … Read more
“road.cc changed its profile picture”“road.cc became a fan of Lance Armstrong”Yes, that’s right – road.cc has set up a Facebook page!Well, we’ve been “tweeting” for a while now so it was only a matter of time before we joined the social networking phenomenon that is Facebook.Become one of our fans (we’ve got nine so far!) … Read more
Some might call it vanity (huh!) but Vecchiojo knows there’s more to being fast than simply going quicker… you need to look quick too, particularly in the leg department. Everyone knows that fast legs are honey brown coloured legs and very definitely not white.So with the season fast approaching it’s time to get the self … Read more
It’s that worrying time of year when legs can finally be stripped of their Winter’s bib-long cocoon and have to emerge blinking into the harsh bright sunlight and gentle hopeful warmth. Blinking and pale. For those of us that haven’t been lucky enough to jet to foreign climes for a week or so of off-season … Read more
Sustrans continues its campaign to encourage young people to get into cycling with a free bike breakfast and bike skills session provided by the Bike It project.Pupils from Whipton Barton Junior School in Exeter will kick off the spring term with a free bike MOT from the Exeter Bikeshed and the first of five bike … Read more
