*This competition is now closed. Thanks for all your entries and best of luck next time if you aren’t one of our winners!Congratulations to our three winners: 1st: Andy Webber, 2nd: Mark Maleham & 3rd: Matt ThorneA representative from Occhio.cc will be in contact with you to arrange your prize.*Winter has taken hold and the colder … Read more
The Kask Sintesi is one of the best cycling helmets out there. It’s light, comfortable, looks good, and is suitable for all styles of riding, from urban commuting and road cycling to gravel. It includes a number of useful features for an attractive price, and there are plenty of colours to choose from.Its construction is … Read more
Is public opinion on the new Manchester cycling roundabout still slightly on the negative side? Short story: yep, pretty much. HLaB says: “With that cycleabout or whatever they want to call it, do they honestly think abled bodied Folks won’t follow their desire lines and cross to the middle or go round it clockwise? All the … Read more
For this evening’s Bike at Bedtime we’re heading back in time to check out Lance Armstrong’s Trek Madone, designed by British artist Damien Hirst and ridden by Armstrong on the Champs Elysées at the 2009 Tour de France. This bike eventually sold for half a million dollars. 2022 Trek Madone Lance Armstrong Damien Hirst (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson) The original idea … Read more
Two MPs have urged their fellow politicians at Westminster who support active travel to “practise what they preach” by calling for the UK to emulate the likes of Germany and Denmark by installing more “secure, accessible and sufficient” cycle parking on the parliamentary estate.Writing in politics magazine The House, the MPs – Flick Drummond, the … Read more
The Wahoo Kickr Smart Trainer v6 has upped the ante in the best turbo trainers space, boasting two pertinent improvements over its predecessor: a 2.4GHz built-in Wi-Fi connection and a more refined ERG mode, which aim to significantly improve the user experience from both a training and racing perspective. In terms of use, the Kickr … Read more
Police in Merseyside say that e-bikes are increasingly being used to further criminality in the area, after officers chased and arrested a man riding a suspected stolen bike, later uncovering large quantities of Class A drugs.On Tuesday 29 November at around 2.30pm, two plain clothes officers, targeting people suspected to be involved in bike thefts, … Read more
A former British Olympic cyclist has been arrested on suspicion of rape and indecent assault, according to reports.The Mail on Sunday has claimed that the retired rider – who cannot be named for legal reasons – has been bailed while an investigation into the allegations is carried out.According to the report, since retiring from racing … Read more
Riding in strong winds can be a miserable and even dangerous experience without careful route planning. Even without officially named storms the UK is a windy place, and if you find yourself on a cycling holiday on one of the Canary Islands or somewhere else extremely windy, that’s a whole other level. To make windy rides more manageable (and … Read more
Drivers who passed a teenage cyclist on a rural road moments before he was fatally struck by another motorist told police that he “should have been on the footpath”.Police collision investigator Nigel Varney also told the inquest into 17-year-old Charlie Cornick’s death that the teenager, whose mother had passed away just weeks before the tragic … Read more
