Urban cycling fashionistas who like to be ahead of the curve get the chance this week thanks to the guys at Outlier. All this week they have been offering limited releases of new garments that are in the final stages of the development process but which aren’t slated for release for a few months down … Read more
A New York policeman seen in a video posted on YouTube shoving a cyclist from his bike has pleaded not guilty to various charges of assault.The cyclist, Christopher Long, was knocked from his bike during a Critical Mass demonstration in June. He was originally charged by the policeman, Patrick Pogan, with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct … Read more
When the chill of winter starts to bite it’s time to reach for the Cannondale Midweight Jersey to keep you cycling through to the spring. Ideal for cool days, it also makes an effective base layer under a jacket. The detailing on the Cannondale Midweight Jersey is deceptively simple, no over the top graphics or … Read more
Sport England has awarded British Cycling £24.3 million in funding for 2009 to 2013 to deliver grass roots sport as part of a plan to get one million more people playing sport. The £24,288,000 of funding represents a 96% increase compared to the 2005-2009 funding period, the second highest increase of the 46 sports eligible for … Read more
Triple Olympic gold medallist, Chris Hoy today called for more government cash to be spent on increasing the numbers of people cycling. Speaking to Richard Moore in the Guardian, Hoy, who was on Sunday voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year by over 280,000 people said: “I’d like to see an increase in participation,” he … Read more
A Belgian court today found Johan Museeuw guilty of using performance enahancing drugs. The rider, widely acknowledged as the best one day specialist of his era, was given a 10-month suspended jail sentence and a fine. Three other riders received similar sentences.The court was slightly harder on the two men convicted of supplying the cyclists … Read more
The guys at Fixie Inc have launched their new website www.cycles-for-heroes.com.As you’d expect Fixie’s 2009 bikes are there in all their glory, but you’ll also find image galleries, blogs (interesting picture of ‘The Man’, Recip Yesil) er, delivering beer at a 24 hour enduro, links to fixed gear, cyclocross and bike polo sites. And that’s … Read more
A study by two US academics has concluded (all right, re-concluded. Okay, let’s make that stated the bleedin’ obvious) that countries whose populations use more acive forms of transportation are thinner than countries that don’t.The study by the University of Tennessee’s David Bassett and John Pucher of Rutgers, shows a pretty much irrefutably strong correlation … Read more
After being suitably impressed with the 2009 Orca, we were interested to see what was happening further down the Orbea range, and they’ve obliged by sending us a brand-new-for-2009 Onix. Confusingly they’re still making the old Onix too, which is branded as the Onix Vuelta – I guess there’s still some tooling costs to recoup … Read more
Knog’s new Skink LED is one clever little light. It’s good too, but it’s not perfect. The clever bit, as you would expect from Knog, is the design. Essentially the Skink is a simple four LED unit plus two batteries wrapped in a rubber skin that requires no mount – you simply stretch the rear … Read more
