UCI President, Pat McQuaid said yesterday that he doesn’t think the world wide credit crunch will have much of an effect on cycling. Whether this is whistling in the dark to keep his spirits up or a perceptive analysis of the attractiveness of cycling to sponsors and spectators across the globe, remains to be seen.”Sport … Read more
In the closest of super-close polls Nicole Cooke took the road.cc rider of the year award by the tiniest of margins – 1 vote. Cooke and Mark Cavendish finished tied on 34 per cent of the votes cast, but that one last vote was enough to clinch it for the Welsh woman. It was nip and … Read more
Tom La Marche has taken the Charge shilling and will ride a Plug and test samples of a new prototype frame the Scissor, a production prototype will be heading his way later this month.La Marche is a long-time member of the US-fixed gear scene although he is based in Philadelphia where riding fixed remains more … Read more
The International Olympic Committee has announced that it is to follow the Tour de France in re-testing samples for CERA EPO.500 samples will be re-tested for the endurance-enhancing hormone EPO and for Insulin. Both tests were recently developed or perfected. Initial results are expected by March. Athletes in endurance events including cycling will have their … Read more
Residents of Shrewsbury have been invited to a public exhibition on the 17th December so that they can give their feedback on the plans for the towns new walking and cycling network.12 months ago Sustrans’ Connect2 won a public vote to receive £50m worth of lottery funding for projects connecting local communities. Shrewsbury received £500,000 … Read more
Mike Cotty a man who seems to spend his life either riding etapes, gran fondos and the like or getting himself filmed recceing them has taken time out of his busy schedule (well, winter is closing in on the high mountains) to go and beat himself up on a bike somewhere else.Don’t feel too sorry … Read more
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
