The attempt by a Welsh Assembly committee to force Welsh councils to develop and maintain a network of paths for walkers and cyclists is being blocked by the Welsh Transport Minister despite the move having the backing of a wide range of organisations including Sustrans, BT, Royal Mail, the British Medical Association, Age Concern, Play … Read more
…but it’s good to see that other even more minority sports are prospering. and well done to the 128 brave souls who won back the extreme ironing record for the UK. Our sporting portfolio just got a bit thicker,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7843208.stm
As a rule I think grey is a rubbish colour for a road bike so it takes special powers to make a good looking grey road bike like the Agio. Condor, it would seem, have the power… it helps of course if you give it a lustrous deep paint job and the London outfit certainly … Read more
LED lights have come a long way since Cateye used to make those front ones with the green diodes you could only see from about five feet away. In many ways this is the direct descendent of those cheaper units – a three-LED budget unit – and it’s great that a cheap town light can … Read more
Right then, we’ve got a truck load, literally, of bikes from this team we sponsored last year that we don’t like to talk about, but as things are a bit tight right now we can’t afford to respray them so if we could come up with a team strip that’s kind of mostly white and … Read more
We’ve just been to the Cervelo Test Team team launch to film interviews with star riders Carlos Sastre, Thor Hushovd, and British Olympic medallist Emma Pooley, plus Cervelo co-founder Gerard Vroomen – the man behind the bikes. This browser does not support the videovar so = new SWFObject(‘/sites/default/files/video/player.swf’,’mpl’,’500′,’318′,’9′); so.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,’always’); so.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,’true’); so.addParam(‘flashvars’,’&file=/sites/default/files/video/sastre1.flv&image=//cdn.road.cc/sites/default/files/video/sastre1.jpg&skin=/sites/default/files/video/video-skins/bluemetal.swf’); so.write(‘player’);Today we talk to Carlos … Read more
Cycloc have sent us one of their clever bike storage things to try out. It makes an excellent hat as you can see, when we find a suitable wall we’ll bang it up and test it for what it was designed for.Also in this morning: some Claqs as discussed here, Park brushes, Electron lights, Pro … Read more
Oxford cycle group, Cyclox, is asking the city’s cyclists to help it plot an online map of the area. The idea is to map Oxford’s cycle routes using GPS devices and then bring all the information together in a wiki-type user generated map based on Open Street Map.One of the beauties of a wiki-style map … Read more
The power of advertising, eh? Don’t know if you’ve noticed but you can’t move for Google ads advertising the Wattbike on road.cc. Anyway, we bowed to the pressure and asked them for one. One duly arrived, now it’s sitting in the back room (scuse the mess). I’ve done a couple of longer sessions on it … Read more
7 picking at roadkill.One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for secret training, never to be told
