Cervelo Test Team get Giro invite

It’s official Cervelo will be racing at this year’s Giro d’Italia as confidently predicted by team officials at their recent launch.The team received an official invitation to the Giro d’Italia from the organizer RCS Sports. At the start of this year’s edition, there will be fourteen ProTour Teams, as well six wildcard entries. The Giro … Read more

Courteous Or Useless?

Now, I appreciate the gesture, but if you’re going to follow me any longer finding it impossible to overtake on this wide country road in your you-don’t-know-how-wide-it-is-do-you MPV (here’s a tip – 2nd gear) can you at least hire a Spanish directeur sportif to lean out the window and scream “Venga! Venga!! Venga!!!” at me. … Read more

Don’t get credit crunched – get on your bike, says CTC

Broke, stressed, depressed? The answer is simple, says the CTC, get on your bike!Not only will you save hundreds of pounds a year on petrol costs but you’ll be fitter and more productive at work, boosting the beleaguered economy and reducing the burden on the NHS.This may all sound obvious to those already enlightened to … Read more

Young artists celebrate the success of Sustrans Bike It project

CYCLING or walking to school is now a real alternative for children from Brookside Primary School, in Stockport, thanks to the Sustrans Bike It project.Bike It officer Nes Brierley, PowWow community artist Anna Smith and a group of young artists from the school celebrated the success of the Bike It initiative by painting a giant … Read more

History of cycling exhibition

Cycling can be a hairy enough experience these days but imagine the top hat-crumpling trauma of being thrown over the handlebars of a Penny Farthing (or ordinary for the purists out there).You can find out more about the history of two-wheeled transport in a new exhibition, imaginatively entitled “Get On Yer Bike”, at the Lancaster … Read more

Even more from CORE: Oval Concepts, Fizik and CycleOps

Oval concepts were at CORE bigging up their R 9-10 Aergo integrated bar and extension system, which is certainly very versatile. The main system is the bar – with ergonomic drops and a super-wide flat section at the top – and stem, which comes with a choice of stem caps. There are five in all, … Read more

Application for a blog…

Hello Road.cc team Like many others, no doubt, I’d like to request a user blog. Why?Simple. I have three main ambitions this year, although two of them only involve road bikes (the other being even more esoteric: the track).The first ambition is to get properly fit. Since being forced to stop playing other competitive sport (hockey; a … Read more

Cateye TL LD130 rear light

Twelve quid can buy you a lot these days; the LD130 is a very decent rear lamp that comes with Cateye’s excellent twist-to-lock mount. You even get the batteries thrown in.The LD130 is a pretty standard-spec unit, using 2AAA batteries to power three LEDs. They’re not hugely powerful but fine for use about town, and … Read more

City legalises two-way cycling in one-way streets

DAVID Cameron was caught out doing it but soon City commuters will be allowed to cycle the wrong way up certain one-way streets in London.City of London Corporation has announced a pilot scheme to allow two-way cycling in seven one-way streets to promote safety and convenience by enabling cyclists to avoid busy streets where most … Read more