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
Levi Leipheimer won today’s time trial at the Tour of California by eight seconds from Dave Zabriskie of Columbia High Road. As he crossed the line the winner of the last two Tours of California held up three fingers – this is the third time he’s won this time trial in the ToC and his … Read more
If you’re in the market for a good bike that’s had a fair dollop of R&D money spent on its development Orbea’s Onix may not be the first machine you would think of, but maybe it should be.Baby brother to Orbea’s range-topping Orca model the Onix benefits from the same SSN (Size Specific Nerve) technology … Read more
Trek, as a sponsor of the Étape du Tour, have announced a competition for buyers of its premium road bike line, the Madone. One lucky customer will win an exclusive trip to ride the Étape with Trek Travel.Anyone buying a Madone between 13th February and 30th April 2009 can register their details and bike serial … Read more
