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Fruitus Organic Fruit and Oat Bars

We all need a bit of food when out on a long ride, but those looking for alternative to laboratory-developed and scientifically proven energy bars...

Fruitus Organic Fruit and Oat Bars
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Have you won a Mezzo?

A while ago RoadCyclingUK.com, in association with Mezzo Bikes, exclusively gave readers the opportunity to take a Mezzo folding bike for a two-week test...

Have you won a Mezzo?
Gear

Brooks Leather Bar Tape reviewed

As new After 18 months Black keeps its colour Brooks Leather Bar Tape £29.99 Leather goods, as any owner of new shoes – or a new leather cycle saddle...

Brooks Leather Bar Tape reviewed
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Rapha Merino Socks

Rapha merino socks £15.00 per pair, £30 for 3 pairs Keep your feet warm and comfortable and you will feel the same, no matter how...

Rapha Merino Socks
Rides News

Colchester Cycling Town Strategy

Essex County Council and its partners on the Colchester Cycling Town project have handed over to Cycling England, based at London Bridge, their detailed...

Colchester Cycling Town Strategy
Gear

ThunderVote Obama Dolan Special

Barack Obama has been elected 44th POTUS. His campaign, said to have been the best-funded in US history, was funded in large part by small...

ThunderVote Obama Dolan Special
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Continental Grand Prix First Ride

    Continental Grand Prix 700x24c folding clincher £27.95 (wire bead £23.95)Perhaps the most influential lightweight road clincher of the early ‘90s, Continental’s Grand Prix remained a...

Continental Grand Prix First Ride
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RCUK Bikes Simon Winter's Carlton retro fixed

A neat wee retro-fixed roadie built up from an old wreck rescued from a skip. The owner-builder Simon Winter (a graphic design student) retained...

RCUK Bikes Simon Winter's Carlton retro fixed
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dhb Earnley SS Seamless base layer

dhb Earnley SS Seamless Base Layer – £18.39 This particular dhb Earnely Seamless Base Layer is a short sleeve version of the base layer of the...

dhb Earnley SS Seamless base layer
Gear

Lew carbon rims on Tune hubs

I have a Trek 1400, which is a nice bike. And, for £650 in the sales back in 2005, it rides very well. It’s stiff,...

Lew carbon rims on Tune hubs
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
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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
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