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
On a night of triple glory for cycling, Chris Hoy confounded the bookies to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Not surprisingly he also won the Scottish Sports Personality Award too. Hoy beat double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington and F1 champ Lewis Hamilton to take the crown. Hoy was supposed to be … Read more
Plans for new world-class cycling facilities in London for cyclists of all ages and abilities have moved a step closer as new images released by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) show the site of the London 2012 VeloPark taking shape.Work to prepare the VeloPark site for the start of construction began in August last year. … Read more
So you thought only Pashley Moulton and Cannondale could do small-wheeled folding-type bikes that don’t fold… Ha! Think again.Meet the Giant Mini Zero another small wheeler ready to ooze style and attitude all over a city street near you given half the chance. Actually the Mini Zero has been doing that for a year or … Read more
British Cycling has today released new figures which it says show that it is growing at an unprecedented rate on the same day that Sport England figures show that cycling is the second fastest growing sport in Britain. For the first time ever today, British Cycling has more than 25,000 members. In addition, 13,000 cyclists also … Read more
Thinking of treating yourself for Chritmas? Well, check out these limited edition team replica lids from Giro.You can have that full pro look with top notch Giro Ionos helmets in either Garmin Chipottle colours (as worn by Magnus Backstedt, David Millar and pals) or Astana, (as worn by Alberto, Lance and the boys). The Astana … Read more
