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Roger Hammond to join Team Dimension Data as Sports Director
Following on from the recent announcement of various rider and staff additions to Team Dimension Data for 2016 including Rolf Aldag and Mark Cavendish, the African team have today announced that Roger Hammond will also join their management staff for the upcoming season. Hammond will take on the role of Sport Director. He joins the team after serving as...
Cyclist’s fall into a canal captured on Strava
A cyclist in the UK had his fall into a canal during a cycle captured on his GPS, which was subsequently shown on his Strava account. Chris Kent went for a cycle in Stoke-on-Trent last Wednesday, and his route took him along a stretch of the Trent and Mersey Canal. However, he somehow ended up falling into the canal, as...
Rabobank to cease sponsorship of Development Team at the end of 2016
Rabobank will cease sponsorship of their UCI Continental development team at the end of 2016. The news was announced by Marcel Wintels, president of the KNWU, at the Autumn conference of the Dutch federation. Rabobank discontinued their sponsorship of their World Tour team at the end of 2012. In a statement at the time, Rabobank said that doping was so...
Rider goes for a slide at UK Cyclocross race
The torrential rain in recent days in both Britain and Ireland has had a big impact on cyclocross courses. This video is from Round 8 of the Central CX league which took place last weekend in Kettering, Northamptonshire. The video was posted by Nigel Bennett with the message "What a gent, even put the post back in ground." It looks...
2014 Rás na mBan winner Tayler Wiles signs for ORICA-AIS
Australian team ORICA-AIS have announced the signing of 2014 Rás na mBan winner, Tayler Wiles. The American rode for Velocio-SRAM this year, and she flies to Australia today to join her new team for their official camp ahead of her fourth professional season. The 26-year-old had a great season this year, as she took victories in the Tour of New...
Ryan Reilly becomes the latest Irish rider to sign for Dynamo Pro Cycling Cover
Nineteen year-old Irish rider Ryan Reilly, a native of Derry, has signed his first professional contract with the Irish team Dynamo Pro Cycling Cover. Reilly has already gained significant experience in France, having raced with the Amicale Cycliste Bisontine team this season. He will join his new team at the end of March, after his university course is completed...
Michael Rogers fears that the Tour de France is vulnerable to a terrorist attack
Following on from the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday evening, the Australian rider Michael Rogers (Tinkoff-Saxo) has outlined his fears that bike races are also open to an attack. He told The Sydney Morning Herald that the nature of the sport whereby races take place on open roads leaves it vulnerable. "It's been in the back of my mind, events...
Dublin Cycling Campaign Make Submission to NTA regarding Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy
Dublin Cycling Campaign / Cyclist.ie made a detailed submission on Friday 13th November to the NTA in regard to their Draft Transport Strategy 2016-2035 for the Greater Dublin Area. The campaign group strongly support most of the public transport proposals in the plan and endorse the NTA’s acknowledgement that urban cycling is a core part of Dublin’s transport solution. However,...
Rider goes for a swim at the Fixx Supercross Cup (VIDEO)
Ireland has been battered by Storm Abigail in recent days and the deluge of rain left the course used for today's round of the Fixx Supercross Cup flooded in places. Round 3 took place in Tymon Park and one rider went for a dive on a particularly badly flooded section. Thanks to Graham O'Keeffe for sending us the below photos...
Geraint Thomas and Adam Blythe use some underhand tactics in the Longest Lap (VIDEO)
Adam Blythe (Orica - GreenEdge) took an easy win in the Longest Lap race at the latest round of the Revolution series at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London last night. The race involves the cyclists riding one lap of the velodrome at a slow pace before having to trackstand for an undetermined period of time. If any riders cycle over...
Jan Ullrich – The Best There Never Was
A new book is set to be published next year about Jan Ullrich. The German cyclist won the Tour de France in 1997, and the Vuelta a Espana two years. In 2000, he won the Olympic Road Race and was second in the time-trial. However in 2006, he was fired by his T-Mobile team after being linked to the Operacion...
“I think there is a lack of respect in the peloton between riders” – William Bonnet
Following on from his horrific crash in this year's Tour de France, William Bonnet (FDJ.fr) is still working on his rehabilitation and hopes to be back on the bike in December. He fractured vertebrae and his scaphoid in the crash. The French rider was interviewed on his team's website where he spoke about the repercussions of the crash on the...
PSNI face criticism following statement that cyclists should travel in single file
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) posted advice on Facebook earlier this week which sparked anger among cyclists as it contradicts the advice in the Highway Code. The statement on the PSNI Fermanagh page read: "Cyclists need to remember that it is against the law to cycle at night without a white front light, a red backlight and red...
A chainsaw, some doves and a green Trabant – Peter Sagan gets married in style (VIDEO)
World Road Race Champion Peter Sagan got married this week to his fiancée Katarina Smolokova in the town of Dolny Kubin in Slovakia, and the ceremony wasn't exactly run-of-the-mill. Katarina arrived at the church in a white vintage Citroen, whilst Sagan rocked up in a green Trabant. Sagan was dressed in a traditional jacket, boots and fur coat. He then proceeded...
Report shows that an increase in cycling could save society US$24 trillion
A report produced by the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy and the University of California, Davis was published this week which outlines the improvements in CO2 emissions and cost savings that could be achieved through an increase in bike usage. The report entitled "A Global High Shift Cycling Scenario: The Potential for Dramatically Increasing Bicycle and E-bike Use in...
Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde outline ambitions for new season
The Movistar Team's new project for 2016 took its first steps forward this week in the Castillo de Gorráiz hotel near Pamplona, Spain, where the telephone squad's 27 riders and its full staff gathered for technical meetings, tests and presentations by some of the Blue squad's main partners. At the end of the events and following a celebration dinner on...