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Tour of Wessex: Day 1

Today the three-day Tour of Wessex sportive got underway and RCUK’s Richard Hallett and I will be riding the full blown challenge. I’ve never attempted...

Tour of Wessex: Day 1
Racing News

Town centre crit at the Original Bicycle Festival

The Original Bicycle Festival, Scotland’s homecoming cycling festival, comes to a dramatic close this weekend (23/24 May) as town centre road racing hits the streets...

Town centre crit at the Original Bicycle Festival
Racing News

King of the Downs report

Photos © Phil O’Connor www.sportivephoto.com The King of the Downs 110 mile super sportive organised by Evans Cycles Ride It! went ahead last weekend and 1,000...

King of the Downs report
Rides News

Tour De France heads to London

The Tour de France will head to London’s Regent Street on 7 July to 1 August as critically acclaimed theatre company theatredelicatessen’s Pedal Pusher show...

Tour De France heads to London
Gear

Simkins Designs Skelters First Look

Simkins Designs recently revealed to us details of its new road brake calipers, which now go under the name of Skelters. To find out how they...

Simkins Designs Skelters First Look
Gear

Boardman Pro Race Prepared First Ride

Boardman Pro Carbon Race Prepared £3299 For weeks up ‘til now, the editor had been promising me a Boardman Pro Race Prepared for test and never...

Boardman Pro Race Prepared First Ride
Racing News

Tour Series starts tonight

The brand new Tour Series, which brings the excitement of crit racing to 10 city centres across the UK, kicks off tonight when it debuts...

Tour Series starts tonight
Rides News

Tour of Britain Pro Tour Ride Sportive announced

Unite ByCycling, an initiative by The Prostate Cancer Charity in association with The Tour of Britain, will be organising a cyclosportive ride, using the route...

Tour of Britain Pro Tour Ride Sportive announced
Gear

Another custom Trek Madone for Lance Armstrong

Stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia is an individual time trial of 60.6km from Sestri Levante to Riomaggiore, and the up and down nature of...

Another custom Trek Madone for Lance Armstrong
Gear

Kask helmets

Kask KK-10 Race KS31 time trial helmet Kask helmets, the choice of Team Barloworld, currently campaigning in the Giro d’Italia, are relatively unknown in the competitive world...

Kask helmets
Gear

Enigma Elle Exclusive First Look

Enigma has become one of the first choices for many seeking a titanium frame. The Sussex-based firm has just introduced its first women specific offering...

Enigma Elle Exclusive First Look
Gear

Panache Cyclewear Eleven Bib Shorts

Panache Cyclewear Eleven Bib Shorts £140 Panache Cyclewear is a new premium clothing company from Boulder, Colorodo set up by Don Powell (who used to race...

Panache Cyclewear Eleven Bib Shorts
Gear

Omega aluminium road bike

What is it? An aluminium frame with all-carbon fork built in about 2001 by Omega, the precursor of what is now Enigma Titanium. Back then,...

Omega aluminium road bike
Gear

Oakley Jawbones arrive on the RCUK desk

Oakley’s Jawbone shades, the US company’s latest in a long line of stylish eyewear, have been catching the attention of cycling fans for the past...

Oakley Jawbones arrive on the RCUK desk
Gear

Shimano RS20 and Carbon 1380 wheel update

Spoke fractured at end of thread Same again here A problem that has arisen with a front Shimano 7850 Dura-Ace Clincher wheel and a rear RS20 wheel; spoke...

Shimano RS20 and Carbon 1380 wheel update
Gear

Condor Squadra review

Condor Squadra £1,749.99 www.condorcycles.com Nimble and confident aluminium offering Condor’s Squadra cuts quite a fine pose in its resplendent cream paint as I pedal it through London’s...

Condor Squadra review
Gear

Assos T Knicker Roubaix bib knickers

Assos T Knicker Roubaix knickers £153.99 Three-quarter tights (or knickers), are invaluable and they don’t come much nicer than the T Knicker Roubaix’s from Assos. The fleece-backed...

Assos T Knicker Roubaix bib knickers
Rides News

Étape Caledonia sabotaged

The Étape Caledonia, the only UK sportive to enjoy closed roads, was sabotaged at the weekend when carpet tacks spread across the roads caused widespread...

Étape Caledonia sabotaged
Racing News

Rollapaluza goes National

Rollapaluza, who have instigated a resurgence of roller racing in recent years with their events, which combine racing fixed wheel bikes on rollers to a...

Rollapaluza goes National
Gear

Mule Bar Refuel recovery bar

The latest and, quite possibly, tastiest offering from up and coming sports nutrition specialist Mule Bar goes by the name ReFuel and is formulated to...

Mule Bar Refuel recovery bar
Gear

dhb Knowle top-end clothing line launched

Well-known for offering affordable performance clothing, wiggle’s dhb clothing brand expands to the higher end with the new Knowle range. These are dhb’s most advanced products...

dhb Knowle top-end clothing line launched
Racing News

Bike Pure anti-doping group

Bike Pure is an independent anti-doping group that was conceived a little over eight months ago to help restore some much needed credibility to cycle...

Bike Pure anti-doping group
Racing News

Cameron Meyer to join David Millar at Nocturne

The Edinburgh Nocturne will kick off the 2009 Nocturne series on 30 May, and Garmin-Slipstream riders Cameron Meyer and David Millar are both on the...

Cameron Meyer to join David Millar at Nocturne
Racing News

The Tour Series begins next week

This summer the UK’s top professional cycling teams will do battle in an all-new 10-date town- and city-centre race series across the UK, which aims...

The Tour Series begins next week
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