Let’s get the tongue twister of a name out of the way first: I’ll call it the Photon 4 from now to save my fingers. Essentially it’s a torch, which splits in half at the base of the head, and the body is a Li-Ion battery that gives a stated run time of 2hrs on … Read more
Carbon may be cool, but titanium still seems to be what we dream of. That’s borne out by the early voting in this week’s road.cc poll – and by the number of titanium bikes at Cycle 08 including a new British company, qoroz. qoroz is the brainchild of Marcus Eales a precicion engineer with a … Read more
Pat McQuaid, President of the UCI yesterday confirmed that the organisation would double the length of the statutory ban for those convicted of doping if it considered them to have been wilfully cheating. Commenting on the latest doping scandal to hit professional road racing he confirmed that if Schumacher, Kohl and Piepoli had commited their … Read more
Stoke-on-Trent authorities are asking for your suggestions on how to encourage more people onto bikes after the city was awarded ‘Cycling City’ status back in June. Stoke is one of 11 new cycling towns and cities which, added to the six existing cycling demonstration towns, are set to receive the country’s largest ever investment in … Read more
This week in an answer to a parliamentary question the Department for Transport finally admitted that local authorities are reducing their investment in cycle lanes – from 405 km in 2001-2 to a mere 140 km in 2006-7, a 65% fall over the last 5 years. According to calculations by the national cyclists’ organisation CTC, … Read more
Dates for next year’s Tour of Britain have been announced. The 2009 edition of the race will take place over eight days, running from Saturday 12th September to Saturday 19th September. The race will once again be a UCI category 2.1 race which means the Great Britain team can take part (national teams are not … Read more
Brighton and Hove, which has been a Cycling Demonstration Town* since 2005 been criticised for plans to tear up a section of cycle lane on one of the busiest routes in to the city. Brighton and Hove Friends of the Earth (BHFOE) are objecting to the plan to remove part of a southbound cycle lane … Read more
UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Manchester organiser British Cycling Events today announced that a host of Olympic stars will be riding at the event from 31 October to 2 November at Manchester Velodrome. British Olympic heroes Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Chris Newton, Ross Edgar, Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny, Wendy Houvenahgel and Victoria … Read more
We were lucky enough to have a new 2009 Isaac Sonic on our stand at Cycle ’08 and it certainly created quite a stir. We haven’t ridden it yet – they don’t allow that sort of thing at the Cycle show – but here’s the technical lowdown. What Isaac are aiming for is a race … Read more
Bernard Kohl, the winner of this year’s King of the Mountains jersey at the Tour de France yesterday became the latest and most high profile rider to be nabbed for micro-dosing Cera – a type of EPO. Kohl was caught by the French anti-doping agency (AFLD) which has been re-testing blood samples from this year’s … Read more
