LEZYNE Look Mum No Sleep! – Overnight Audax – CafĂ© to CafĂ©

LEZYNE Look Mum No Sleep! – Overnight Audax – CafĂ© to CafĂ©

The organisers of the Orbital Cycling Festival and the owners of London cycling café, Look Mum No Hands! are gleeful and proud to announce the LEZYNE Look Mum No Sleep! 200km overn ...

Destination Bike: The Scottish Borders

Destination Bike: The Scottish Borders

In our new series looking at bike-friendly destinations, we will be visiting locations in the UK and abroad that have something special to offer cyclists.  Kicking off, we start wi ...

Boston Marathon Bombs Don’t Deter Organisers of Gran Fondo New York

Boston Marathon Bombs Don’t Deter Organisers of Gran Fondo New York

There are still places left for probably the most glamorous sportive in the world – if you can afford the eye-watering entry fee. The Campagnolo Gran Fondo New York starts in Manha ...

ANVL Components Sneak Peak

ANVL Components Sneak Peak

ANVL components are all set to unveil a look at their new product line which is to focus on enduro and gravity racing and performance trail applications. From wheelsets to grips, t ...

Flèche Wallonne and Why Team Sky Can’t Win a Classic

Flèche Wallonne and Why Team Sky Can’t Win a Classic

Could Team Sky’s conspicuous lack of success in this season’s one-day Classics be down to the appliance of too much science? Are riders such as Jonathan Tiernan-Locke being worn ou ...

Orbital Cycling Festival release set of 10 event art prints by Eliza Southwood

Orbital Cycling Festival release set of 10 event art prints by Eliza Southwood

Celebrating 10 of the races & rides that will be a major part of the 3-day event on the 26th to 28th July 2013, Orbital Cycling Festival have released these cracking posters de ...

Book Review: The Science of Cycling

Book Review: The Science of Cycling

Did you know a cyclist who regularly rides at high-intensity will live up to three years longer than a cyclist who rides for longer but at average intensity? Or that a rider wearin ...

Totally Bikes – Premium bike hire service – Review

At the most basic level, cycling is a highly accessible sport: all you need is a bike and the willpower to get out of the door and get pedalling.  The problem comes when your addiction and love of cycling pushes you into racing, time trials or triathlons. It is at this point when you begin to look at your tru more ...

August 23, 2012

Flèche Wallonne and Why Team Sky Can’t Win a Classic

Could Team Sky’s conspicuous lack of success in this season’s one-day Classics be down to the appliance of too much science? Are riders such as Jonathan Tiernan-Locke being worn out by relentless, hard riding up and down the slopes of Mount Teide, the notorious volcano in Tenerife where Team Sky sends its rid more ...

April 17, 2013

Destination Bike: The Scottish Borders

In our new series looking at bike-friendly destinations, we will be visiting locations in the UK and abroad that have something special to offer cyclists.  Kicking off, we start with the Borders region of Scotland…. It rains in Scotland.  A lot.  Witness the Tour O’ the Borders sportive earlier this month.  T more ...

April 24, 2013

Crud RoadRacer Mk2 Mudguards Review – As Light and Lovely as Laura Trott

The instructions that come with the Crud RoadRacer Mk2 mudguards are not for the faint-hearted.  And the video tutorial at Crud’s website is even scarier. If, like me, you have the mechanical aptitude of a tree, you might want to consider smiling sweetly at your local bike shop owner and offering to leave him more ...

November 30, 2012

LEZYNE Look Mum No Sleep! – Overnight Audax – CafĂ© to CafĂ©

The organisers of the Orbital Cycling Festival and the owners of London cycling café, Look Mum No Hands! are gleeful and proud to announce the LEZYNE Look Mum No Sleep! 200km overnight randonée, dubbed 'Café to Café'. Celebrating the beauty, simplicity and challenge of independent riding, the organisers aim t more ...

May 9, 2013

Route Clothing: T-shirts That Don’t Stink….

Believe it or not, the photograph above was taken on the east coast of Scotland at the end of February.  It’s been snowing ever since.  And I’ve just read that the current spell of freezing weather may last until the end of April. So probably not the ideal time to be reviewing a new range of T-shirts from Gla more ...

March 25, 2013

Booost Canned Oxygen Review

I once worked as an English language teacher in a former sanatorium on the outskirts of Moscow.  At 11 every morning, white-uniformed nurses would march our Russian students down to the basement where they were served “oxygen cocktails”.  These sweet-tasting concoctions of foam and gaseous oxygen were suppose more ...

October 5, 2012

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