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Cycling news highlights- Tiernan-Locke's Signature Already In Demand | Cyclingnews.com 13 February 2012
- Jan Ullrich apologises and regrets not admitting doping link | Cycling Weekly 10 February 2012
- Matt Rendell analysis: What have we learned from the Alberto Contador ruling? - News - Tour de France - ITV 7 February 2012
- CAS sanction Contador with two year ban in clenbuterol case 6 February 2012
- London 2012: Beijing heroine Nicole Cooke facing life on the fringes | Richard Williams | The Guardian 31 January 2012
Author Archives: Alex
Undermining #cyclesafe by running red lights
“Recently I approached a notoriously dangerous junction with the lights on red and a police car at the front of the queue. I knew that in half a second the lights would switch, that the other lanes were already at … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Commuting, Safety
Tagged "road safety", #Cyclesafe, red light, RLJ, safety, The Times
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Presenting Radish Hack Nissen Hut and other follies
So there was Leopard Trek, a laughable example of what happens when you try to create brilliance by focus group. And there was Radioshack, a magnificent monument to the total indifference of Johan Bruyneel and his cohorts to any other … Continue reading
I hope you’re getting a bike for Christmas
Do children still get bikes for Christmas? I hope so. Christmas and birthday, the two times of the year when a child can ask for a bicycle and have a better than usual chance of getting one. I remember getting … Continue reading
This is how you do Urban Cyclocross
Smashing video from the mighty Morvelo which deserves to go on here rather than just on the Chasing Wheels Tumblr which is where I find I’m posting a fair bit of quick and dirty pix’n’vidz at the moment.
Posted in Urban Cyclocross, Video
Tagged "Urban Cyclocross", cool, Morvelo, video, youtube
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Bike vs Buck video – biker gets taken down by Antelope
(via Competitive Cyclist on Twitter) Puts into perspective the risks people run with deer crossing the road in Richmond Park. Actually it seems there’s a seriously aggro badger that’s been taking people out recently.
My Pegoretti Marcelo: The Thin White Duke
At last my dream bike is complete: A Pegoretti Marcelo. It’s to bike ownership what a Chanel 2:55 is to handbags: a timeless classic piece of artisanal craft whose quality is evident but not showy. Ordered in January 2011 and … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, bike, classic, custom, Dario Pegoretti, Italian, Marcelo, Pegoretti
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Analysis: How Great Britain won the world championship for Mark Cavendish
What more is there to add? There have been few more impressive displays of teamwork in the history of the Worlds. Lionel Birnie wrote about Project Rainbow, Rod Ellingworth’s plan, in 2008, when pretty much everyone in the world thought … Continue reading
Ways to celebrate the Leopard Trek-Radioshack Merger
I started with this on twitter last night, got a few retweets, so I thought I’d pull them all together into one blog post and add a few more. I’ll leave it up to devine which factual events I’m referring … Continue reading
Is cycling really worth that much to the UK?
This week nearly every cycling publication, and most of the mainstream press to boot, reported that cycling is worth nearly £3 billion to the UK economy and growing. The ever-eloquent Dynamite Files sounded a note of caution that I’ve not … Continue reading
The absurd and depressing end of High Road Sports
(Team HTC-Highroad have thrown in the towel on finding a new sponsor, picture by Natalie on Flickr) Well the hyenas will be cackling this morning, but no one with an interest in the long-term sustainability of cycling as an elite … Continue reading
