Monthly Archives: October 2008

Rides News

Ride It! North Downs sportive

The Ride It! series of sportive events heads to Dorking, Surrey for a ride around the North Downs on 6/7 December. Priory School, Dorking will be...

Ride It! North Downs sportive
Rides News

The Road to Mont Ventoux trailer

Filming has finished for Cyclefilm’s latest release, The Road to Mont Ventoux, which follows the route of the 2009 L’Etape. Editing is now taking place...

The Road to Mont Ventoux trailer
Rides News

Garmin Edge 705 GPS computer review

Garmin Edge 705 GPS computer review   £359.95 (including European road map); GSC10 speed/cadence sensor £41.99   Garmin’s latest bike-specific GPS unit – the Edge 605/705 – combines all...

Garmin Edge 705 GPS computer review
Racing News

British Cycling and Sky reveal new look team

British Cycling today unveiled the new Sky+HD Trade Team which includes Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton, Shanaze Reade, Jamie Staff, Ross Edgar and Jason Kenny. The...

British Cycling and Sky reveal new look team
Racing News

Canon sponsors UCI Track Cycling World Cup

Canon has announced that it will once again support the Manchester round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup from 31 October to 2 November. Canon...

Canon sponsors UCI Track Cycling World Cup
Rides News

Northern Rock Cyclone 2009

The Northern Rock Cyclone festival of cycling is already on schedule to be the biggest and best event since its inception. Plans are now well...

Northern Rock Cyclone 2009
Gear

CycleOps launches new trainers

Powerbeam Pro Trainer Left JetFluid Pro Right SuperMagneto Pro CycleOps has been building turbo trainers for over 10 years and for 2009 releases three new Pro series...

CycleOps launches new trainers
Gear

Shimano RS20 wheelset First Ride

Shimano RS20 wheelset £79.99 front, £99.99 rear With a recent price rise of £20 per pair these are not quite as budget as they were, but...

Shimano RS20 wheelset First Ride
Rides News

MPs call for increased 20mph speed limits

The CTC has strongly welcomed calls from an influential group of MPs for the Government to increase the number of 20 mph speed limits, and...

MPs call for increased 20mph speed limits
Rides News

Rollapaluza Bristol at Mud Dock

Rollapaluza will be taking its unique brand of roller racing to Bristol’s Mud Dock Café in association with Iron Horse on Wednesday 5 November. Never heard...

Rollapaluza Bristol at Mud Dock
Gear

SRAM aero bar-end shifters

SRAM’s new 1090-R2C (Return to Center) bar-end shift levers have an internal mechanism that returns the lever to the initial alignment after each gear change....

SRAM aero bar-end shifters
Rides News

Dragon Ride goes international

Pic by Phil O’Connor www.sportivephoto.com Dragon Ride Wales, the UK’s premier cyclosportive ride, will go into 2009 as part of a new ‘super-partnership’ of international sportive...

Dragon Ride goes international
Gear

Singular Cycles

UK based Singular Cycles started out in life relatively recently producing 29in wheeled mountain bikes that, as we saw at the London Cycle Show recently,...

Singular Cycles
Rides News

The Road to Mont Ventoux

Following the announcement of the 2009 L’Etape du Tour route, featuring Mont Ventoux lest we forget, Cyclefilm is about to put into production a L’Etape...

The Road to Mont Ventoux
Gear

Braveheart Dinner and Ride 2008

Pete Slater of Science In Sport prepares for rain Brian Smith can’t wait to get wet The ride lived up to its name SIS director Tim Lawson’s cafe...

Braveheart Dinner and Ride 2008
Rides News

RCUK Caption Contest result

At the recent London Cycle Show, long-time RCUK member Adam Tranter was caught by our camera discussing the latent appeal of Brooks leather handlebar tape...

RCUK Caption Contest result
Racing News

O’Grady and McGee head to Revolution

The Revolution is back. The unique track series, now in season 6, gets going on 15 November and the line-up of star riders includes our...

O’Grady and McGee head to Revolution
Gear

Nicole Cooke Limited Edition

Olympic and World Road Champion 2008 Limited Edition in white Standing alongside Nicole Cooke’s stealthy black carbon-fibre cboardman PRO/Race Prepared Olympic and worlds-winning road bike at the...

Nicole Cooke Limited Edition
Racing News

UCI Track Cycling World Cup

Four GB riders – Jason Kenny, Ross Edgar, Craig Maclean and Matthew Crampton – will be among those battling some of Japan’s leading specialists for...

UCI Track Cycling World Cup
Racing News

Rapha Fixed Long Sleeve base layer

Rapha Fixed Long Sleeve base layer – £65 As the winter clasps its icy tentacles around us, there are many vital items of clothing to keep...

Rapha Fixed Long Sleeve base layer
Gear

Kinesis SPF 510 frame launched

While it’s easy to assume, with widespread adoption of carbon fibre, that materials like aluminium have been consigned to the history books, there’s still a...

Kinesis SPF 510 frame launched
Gear

Boardman 2009 range launched

Athlete’s Hour bike? Olympic heroes training in background Building on a successful debut season, Olympic and world champion Chris Boardman’s 2009 cycle collection was unveiled at...

Boardman 2009 range launched
Rides News

Shift Sniper Lights winner

Those who bought a copy of the most excellent Shift magazine no doubt read with interest about and perhaps even entered our competition to win...

Shift Sniper Lights winner
Racing News

2009 Tour will feature Mont Ventoux

The official route of the 2009 Tour de France was unveiled this morning at the Palais des Congrès of Paris when race boss Christian Prudhomme...

2009 Tour will feature Mont Ventoux
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