Innovative features and sleek design help Cannondale’s Morphis Shell jacket stand out from the rest. Its versatility ensures a great investment.This jacket has rather cool magnetic poppers which enable super ‘quick release’ from jacket to gilet, and back again. The sleeves detach as a whole; making it so quick and easy, you won’t even have … Read more
Aimed at the keen ‘cross racer Merida’s CC5 cyclo-cross bike tops the company’s UK ‘cross range in and packs quite a punch in terms of value for money and performance. This is a bike that gives you Shimano Ultegra at a price at which ‘cross bikes usually come specced with Shimano 105. Better still though, … Read more
Round One of the Tour Series will be in Milton Keynes next May, organisers Sweetspot today announced.Milton Keynes joins Woking and Southport as the first venues to formally announce hosting a round of the new televised series of city centre criterium races in 2009, with the Buckinghamshire town holding the first ever Tour Series event … Read more
If you think you’d know how to spend £22.8m on cycling the good folk at Bristol City Council would like to hear from you, by Wednesday.Earlier this year the Bristol was named as the UK’s first Cycling City by Cycling England seeing off competition from Leicester, Manchester, Brighton. The title came with a large wedge … Read more
Lance Armstrong has said that he is seriously considering riding next year’s Tour of Ireland.He made the comments in response to questions from an Irish reporter at the Astana training camp in Tenerife. According to Livestrong.com he commended the Irish Government for their stance on smoking in public places and confirmed that he was considering … Read more
Chained your bike to a lamppost recently? Tantamount to murder, according to Edinburgh police.They’ve launched a crackdown on cyclists who dare to perform such an horrific crime. Oh, along with red light jumping, pavement riding, and ignoring one way signs*.Inspector Andy Gilhooly of Edinburgh police said these were all more serious offences than cyclists believed.He … Read more
Chris Hoy’s manager has been summoned to see the British Cycling top brass at Manchester and told to cut the publicity work and to get back into training.According to Scotland on Sunday British Cycling had become exasperated that the star was filming a Kellogs TV commercial when they thought he should be back in training … Read more
The £1.8million pound Sustrans’ Connect2 scheme to provide a fantastic route out of Bath through two tunnels and over Tucking Mill Viaduct is closer than ever before thanks to the squealing success of King Bladud’s Pigs.The pigs – 105 life-size models decorated by local artists and displayed prominently around Bath brought home the bacon this … Read more
Rollapaluza broke with their tradition and used their winter league series to experiment with a 1000m only event, twice the normal race distance. Despite the fear and trepidation expressed in advance, competitor numbers were actually up on round one with 47 riders, 13 of who were female. There were a lot more bloodthirsty spectators too!The … Read more
Pupils from schools in East Inverness have played a significant part in changing the travelling behaviour of their local community. Walking, cycling and public transport use has rocketed in Inverness after local school pupils urged family and friends to take advantage of an innovative sustainable travel project.The TravelSmart Project targetted some 1500 homes in East … Read more
