A sunny Saturday might be the perfect excuse for for a trip to the local bike shop, and all the more reason if it’s ‘Local Bike Shop Day’.Local Bike Shop Day is organised by the Association of Cycle Traders (ACT), representing over 4,000 business in the UK, and designed to encourage the nation’s 6.5 million … Read more
Nicely shaped, comfortable, ultra-light and offering good levels of protection, the Magicshine Windbreaker Classic Sunglasses are excellent cycling-specific sunnies at a great price. The only minor irritation I had was the nose-piece being just about visible when wearing them.These are excellent, but you might want to check out our guide to the best cycling sunglasses … Read more
UPDATE: The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC), the local authority that controversially removed a protected cycle lane just seven weeks after it was installed, has refuted claims from active travel campaigners that it delayed a consultation process and manipulated data concerning public support for protected cycling infrastructure on Kensington High Street.Last week, campaigners … Read more
This edition of Tech of the Week is crammed with juicy goodness, including collabs between 3T and Crankbrothers and also between Look and Café du Cycliste, new saddles from Fizik and Selle Italia, and some very cool-looking shoes from Ekoi – we really do spoil you – but we’re kicking off with what Parcours calls “the world’s … Read more
Zaaf Cycling Team has lost its Continental licence after Ebtissam Zayed Ahmed became the eighth cyclist to quit the Spanish team within a month, which left it with just seven riders, below the governing body UCI’s minimum requirement of eight, after reports of the team not paying wages emerged.In what has been in the making for … Read more
A Swedish researcher, who is working on the safety of cyclists being close passed by extra long trucks at high speeds, said that having a stipulated distance of 1.5 metres for passing cyclists is misunderstood by drivers, while also hoping to run a test where drivers perform an overtake and then get overtaken in the same way while … Read more
Trek-Segafredo have “mutually agreed to part ways” with Italian pro Antonio Tiberi, who was in February fined €4,000 for shooting and killing a cat belonging to Federico Pedini Amati, the former head of state and current Minister of Tourism for San Marino. In a statement released this afternoon, the WorldTour outfit said Tiberi’s contract was now terminated, saying … Read more
A road safety campaign in Essex has stood by its claim that some cyclists “proactively seek out examples of poor driving” and added that those sending submissions should consider their own conduct as well, after they rejected a submission because it was not “in passing” from commute.Safer Essex Road Partnership, or SERP, says that its purpose is … Read more
Welcome to the fourth (or possibly fifth) edition of the blog where I tell you how we pay for road.cc. Before I let you in on that secret though, I’d like to tell you what sets road.cc apart from the rest of the cycling media, and that isn’t how we make money. Unlike BikeRadar, Cycling Weekly, … Read more
A driver has been arrested for causing two collisions on the same stretch of road in Chester just minutes apart and being “unfit to drive”, which saw him turn his own car onto the side and left a cyclist with “serious, but not life-threatening” injuries.The cyclist had reported the first incident to the police where … Read more
