Jan
21
Cycling's Tour Series returns to Southport in June Southport Visiter SOUTHPORT has regained its status as a host town for the 2010 Tour Series of Great Britain cycling event. Hailed as a resounding success last year, ... |
Jan
21
Price:
£949.99 Charge bikes are arguably the coolest bike brand out of the UK at the minute offering an infectious mix of exciting design, excellent marketing and the West countries finest riders to boot. The Juicer Mid is the more affordable version in the Charge classic road portfolio. Coming in at a Cyclescheme-friendly £950 for 23lbs of steel with a Tiagra groupset it might be hard to see why this bike is so appealing, however as I found it was love at first ride. Actually it happened before I had finished setting it up.
Road.cc verdict:
Very much more than the sum of its parts
Weight:
10430g
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Jan
21
While we were at Zyro's open house event this week we had the opportunity to meet Wayne from Ashima, who showed us his hydraulic road brake concept. It's currently just a work in progress with most of the working parts modelled in plastic but Ashima seem fairly committed to launching it next year. You might well be asking yourself how (and why...) at this point, so here's what we learnt.
Jan
21
 Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog) | 13 kiwis competing at track World Cup in Beijing Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog) Individual pursuit world champion Alison Shanks will spearhead a 13-strong New Zealand squad at the track cycling World Cup in Beijing, starting tonight. ... Shanks takes out gold World champ Shanks wins women's pursuit at UCI cycling World Cup |
Jan
21
Danish design helps Copenhagen's cyclists rest their arms and feet road.cc Railings at junctions are regularly cited by cycling organisations in the UK as a danger to cyclists, especially when combined with left-turning lorries, ... |
Jan
21
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Image used courtesy of Copenhagenize.com
If you’re online and you follow developments in urban cycling, chances are at some point you’ll have stumbled across the Copenhagenize.com blog.
Jan
21
Who's to blame for morbid obesity? The Guardian We're not provided with flat cycling paths around here and the shops are few and far between in south Devon. That may seem silly, but I'm trying to point ... |
Jan
21
Freakonomics author turns attention to bike helmet compulsion road.cc Also – and this suggestion will be familiar to anyone following the cycle safety debate in the UK – Dubner believes that compulsory helmet laws reinforce ... |
Jan
21
An academic paper outlining how making it compulsory for young cyclists to wear helmets, although reducing the number killed in accidents on their bikes can unintentionally lead to a fall in the number cycling in the first place, has attracted the attention of one of the co-authors of the bestselling book Freakonomics.
The book, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide since its publication in 2005, is a collaboration between University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J Dubner.
Jan
21
 The Guardian | 'OK, let's do it': How Britain's official data was freed The Guardian A key moment for Berners-Lee and Shadbolt was the creation of the cycling accident map, which followed within hours from the publication on the direct.gov ... |
