Just landed at the road.cc office the latest incarnation of the Focus Cayo Expert this time with added SRAM.We’ll be testing the bike in the coming weeks but in the meantime here’s a flavour of what £2,249 of your hard earned cash gets you…A decently light bike for starters, the Cayo Expert tips our scales … Read more
Edinburgh police today launched an operation to combat bike theft in the city which will involve stopping suspicious looking cyclists this includes those not wearing a helmet. The move comes as figures released today give a detailed breakdown of bike theft in Edinburgh showing the areas most and least affected by the problem over the … Read more
Two months off with That Cold That’s Been Going Around has led to lung of mouse and leg of crane-fly, but I’m more than ready now, and gagging, to go for a ride. But if I venture out on the road bike I know I’m going to get far too excited about being out in … Read more
What a lot, of features the Bell Array has (you meet even say an array… if you liked lame puns) but possibly the best of them is its adjustability – I could even get it to fit my weirdly shaped cranium, a challenge not all helmets are up to.The Twin Axis Gear (TAG) fit allows … Read more
Conditions have been a tad treacherous under-wheel for most of the UK over the past couple of weeks so maybe now’s the time for some radical action. Canadian style.Time to break out the Ktrak – okay, you’re going to need some snow to use it, and a mountain bike which may already be too radical … Read more
Britain’s latest crop of cycling medallists will be in action at Revolution 23 this Saturday at the Manchester Velodrome.With cycling featuring prominently in the New Year’s honours the start list for Revolution on January 10th now features new Members of the British Empire Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Jason Kenny and Victoria Pendleton as well as … Read more
If you’re off to the Étape in 2009 then you’d do well to go prepared, because the Ventoux is a hard climb – the hardest in France, if Lance is to be believed. This DVD from Cyclefilms, their third Étape recce, will certainly help: it’s well put together and gives a really good flavour of … Read more
When it comes to grand tours Alberto Contador is THE MAN these days, as Lance and Ivan will surely find out come the summer. So what better way to celebrate the youngest man to win all three tours than by a set of commemorative glasses?… sunglasses.Well, no better way if you happen to be a … Read more
Sustainable transport charity, Sustrans, is calling on local authorities to apply for funding to develop safer and healthier routes to schools in their area. The £17 million for the Links to Schools programme is part of the £140 million earmarked by by the Department for Transport to promote cycling.In civil engineering terms £17 million is a small … Read more
Hampshire cyclist, Simon Tout, has put in an early shout for the longest commute of the year. The tax advisor from Havant in Hampshire is putting in a 144 mile round trip to and from his job at Shell’s headquarters on London’s South Bank.His ride in to work entails a 4.30am start to and takes … Read more
