Rouleur 11 Out now

The team at Rouleur have been in touch to let us know that the  latest issue of the magazine is now on sale promising the usual mix of intriguing features Rouleur 11 includes an interview with Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen Rouleur spent the season following the pair to put together a fly-on-the-wall account of … Read more

Gore Ozon arm warmers

This is a thin armwarmer that’s better employed as an extra layer at the start of a warmer ride than any kind of winter protection. They’re nicely made from a tightly woven Lycra, the seams are flatlocked and there’s a minimal reflective logo at the wrist. The top gripper is snug without being restrictive.When you … Read more

Sustrans to count bike traffic in Cycling Towns and City

Sustrans, the sustainable transport charity behind the National Cycle Network and more besides, is to monitor the levels of cycling in the 18 recently announced Cycling Towns and Bristol, the UK’s first Cycling City. The cycle traffic count will be carried out for the Department for Transport and Cycling England.During the three year monitoring programme … Read more

Four cyclists make BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards shortlist

Four of Britain’s Olympic cyclists have made the shortlist of nominations for the BBC Sport’s Personality of the Year Award. The four: Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy, Nicole Cooke, and Rebecca Romero all struck gold at the Beijing Olympics.Hoy and Wiggins came back from Beijing with triple and double gold medal hauls respectively. Cooke became the … Read more

So it’s cold outside…

There is no doubt that cycling is a drug and for most of us a little bitty thing like Winter isn’t going to put us off. Mind you most of us don’t go to quite the same lengths as Will to feed our addiction when the thermometer dips. Mind you, most of us don’t have … Read more

Ryder R350 Sprint XR glasses

These Ryder glasses come complete with a set of three interchangeable lenses; orange for dull days, clear for when it’s dark or raining, and dark for when you want to look cool, or if that isn’t an option, for when the sun is shining.As you would expect all of the lenses filter UVA and UVB … Read more

Ryder R347 Sprint XR Photo chromic

Ryder’s Sprint R347 glasses are big brothers to the standard Ryder R350 Sprint and as with them the accent is very much on performance rather than fashion, looks are understated, pleasingly so some might say, rather than head-turningly fashionable. What we have here is a very reasonably priced pair of performance glasses.As with the R350s the … Read more

Lance Armstrong WILL race 2009 Tour de France

The will he/won’t he saga of whether Lance Armstrong the world’s most famous cyclist will compete in next year’s Tour de France – the world’s biggest race – was finally ended yesterday when Armstrong announced his intention to attempt the Tour/Giro double for the first time in his career. Did anyone really think this wasn’t … Read more

Fraud costs top team half its name

Last season Team CSC Saxo Bank won the team prize at the Tour de France and a lot more besides, now due to a Danish fraud scandal it is looking for a new name.US computing company CSC is dropping out as co-sponsor for 2009 and was due to be replaced by Danish software outfit IT … Read more

Aussie cyclist wins payout for “Cheat” slur

 Australian track cyclists Mark French has won $350,000 payout from a radio station that called him a “dirty, stinking, dobbing cyclist”. The comments were made on the Triple M station’s breakfast show The Cage, (now defunct), by presenters James Brayshaw and Tim Smith. French, the four time junior world sprint champion, was implicated in a doping … Read more