Women’s Cycling News Roundup, February 14 (Daily Peloton)

Women's Cycling News Roundup, February 14 Lotto Ladies for New Zealand, 27 women's UCI teams, Team Norris replaces Skyter, Cooke and Cromwell to compete with National Teams, GP Costa Etrusca Shortened, Manel Lacambra to work with USA National Team, Becker joins Cervelo and more..

Poole teenagers devastated by theft of bikes
Bournemouth Daily Echo
To add to the misery, the wheels of a mountain bike were also taken in a third incident. Alison, George's mum, said: “I've never seen him so upset in my ...

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Cycling Weekly

Boasson Hagen second in Oman's opening bunch sprint
Cycling Weekly
However, the 22-year-old Norwegian, a former winner of the Tour of Britain, ran out of gas within a few metres for the line, losing the race by a less than ...

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A rear cycle light that senses approaching traffic and illuminates both the rider and the road has been nominated for a major international award.

Australian design student James Morton has come up with the 'Firefly', a piece of kit that uses a passive infra-red sensor to detect vehicles coming from the rear. The closer the vehicle gets, the brighter the light shines. It also employs a set of white LEDS to light up the rider's back and the road beneath the bike.

Firefly lights up the rider AND the road

Southland Times

Dawkins gets step closer to world dream
Southland Times
Dawkins was the shining star of the 2010 elite New Zealand Track Cycling Championships, which ended on Saturday night. After winning the 1000m time trial in ...

Best Of The Rest Music News – FemaleFirst.co.uk


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Best Of The Rest Music News
FemaleFirst.co.uk
He will cycle 720 miles (1158 kilometres) around Britain and play 15 gigs during the tour in May (10). Heaton says, "I'm looking forward to pedalling around ...

Xplorer: Q&A with Sonya Looney – The Coloradoan


Xplorer: Q&A with Sonya Looney
The Coloradoan
It was my third mountain bike race ever. It was in Los Alamos, NM I was racing on a bike that I thought was a cool race bike (turns out it was a 30-pound ...

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The X-factor that is Armstrong
Independent Online
Lance Armstrong will not be the first Tour de France champion to ride in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour, but he will be the only one who will ride the ...

Those were the days – community blog from Uri Rivner (Finextra)

Two weeks ago I was cycling in the gym, watching cable TV. Roger Federer was beating Andy Murray live from Melbourne; after losing a point he looked at his tennis racket in puzzlement, as if trying to understand what just happened, and then he resumed winning game after game without even the basic courtesy of showing signs of sweat.
Paul Heaton, the former frontman of The Beautiful South and The Housemartins, is to tour the UK - on a bike.