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A day in the life of Sean Downey
Such a talent and so humble. Experience a day in the life of Irish rider Sean Downey on the second day of Driedaagse Van West-Vlaanderen. Not his best day in the saddle but his upbeat attitude is refreshing. Looking forward to more videos from him in the season ahead.
Half The Road: The passion, pitfalls & power of women’s professional cycling (TRAILER)
Half The Road, the superb but enraging documentary about inequities in professional cycling, is being screened in Manchester as part of International Women’s Day celebrations. A 2013 survey undertaken by the Women’s Cycling Association showed that 50% of female pro cyclists earn $3,000 (£1969) or less per year. This statistic is from Half The Road, the documentary by Kathryn Bertine. The...
Watch the last 10 kilometres of Strade Bianche
Strade Bianche was only run for the first time in 2007, but has quickly established itself as an iconic race. The 200km route starts in San Gimignano and finishes after a steep climb in the narrow streets of the centre of Siena. The race features ten sections of gravel roads, for a total of over 50km. Last year's race was won...
Simon Gerrans fractures elbow at Strade Bianche
There was bad luck for Simon Gerrans at Strade Bianche in Italy as he crashed an fractured his elbow. It's not known at this stage how long he will be out of racing for. Gerrans won last year's Liege-Bastogne-Liege. It was the Australian's first race since since breaking his collarbone in a mountain biking accident in December. The Orica-GreenEdge rider posted...
The year when Paris-Nice finished in Rome
By Graham Healy Paris-Nice was established in 1933 by Albert Lejeune, Director of the Petit Journal. It was initially considered as a training race, but would later become one of the top stage races of the calendar. Amongst the big names who took victory in those first decades of the race were René Vietto, Louison Bobet and Jacques Anquetil. It was...
Irate driver in San Francisco cuts up a cyclist and then loses the plot
YouTube user Agent X85B has posted a video of a recent run in with an irate driver in San Francisco. The incident took place on February 26th on Geary and Webster. While cycling along the street, the motorist decides to pull into a parking space in front of the cyclist. The cyclist has to brake suddenly, and seemingly hits the back...
Unquiet Film Series – Cities Fit For Cycling
The Times’ Cities Fit for Cycling campaign is the subject of one of the short films in The Times and The Sunday Times Unquiet Film Series. The Times is calling on the British government to invest more in cycling to help improve safety, limit congestion, boost public health and reduce pollution. The film features Times journalist Kaya Burgess, AA President Edmund...
Tour of Flanders cyclosportive entries sell out
Entries for the Tour of Flanders cyclosportive have now sold out. 16,000 cyclists have signed up to take part in the event on Saturday, April 4th, the day before the pros, to test themselves on the course of the world-renowned classic. This year is the first time that the number of entries has been capped. "The introduction of a limit...
Bad news for Oleg Tinkov
Forbes have published the 2015 World Billionaires List, and 138 were missing from last year's list of the wealthiest people on the planet. It was bad news in particular for Russia's rich, as 28 slipped down. Amongst the casualties was the owner of the Tinkoff Saxo team, Oleg Tinkov. According to Forbes, Tinkov’s credit card company, Tinkov Credit Systems, dropped...
Sean Downey and Conor Dunne set for Driedaagse van West Vlaanderen
Irish riders Sean Downey & Conor Dunne are back in action again this weekend, as part of an eight man An Post Chain Reaction Sean Kelly Team for tomorrow’s (Friday, 6th March) Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen (2.1) in Belgium. Despite a testing start to the season, Kurt Bogaerts’ men will go into the race in high spirits following a good outing...
An Post Cycle Series Launched
The 2015 An Post Cycle Series was officially launched this week by the 2015 ambassadors; eight time All-Ireland winning hurler and former Kilkenny wing-back JJ Delaney, women’s 400m runner Marian Heffernan, comedian PJ Gallagher, musician Bressie and cycling legend Sean Kelly. The five event series which is a joint initiative between An Post and the Irish Sports Council...
Andy Schleck announces his plans for the future
Following on from his retirement last October at the age of 29 following persistent knee problems, Andy Schleck has announced his plans for the future. He told paperjam.lu about his plans for a bike shop, coffee shop and a museum in Itzig, Luxembourg. Schleck is planning on opening a concept store in the spring of 2016, and he intends using a...
Last ten kilometres of Le Samyn (VIDEO)
Le Samyn took place yesterday in Belgium, and the 201km UCI 1.1 race from Quaregnon to Dour featured finishing laps around Dour and a new sector of cobbles which looked brutal. Amongst the favourites going into the race were Niki Terpstra and Gianni Meersman (Etixx Quick Step), Kris Boekmans (Lotto Soudal), Bryan Coquard (Team Europcar) and Tyler Farrar (MTN Qhubeka). It...
World’s largest timed cycle may be affected by massive fires
The Cape Town Cycle Tour has announced that it has alternative plans in place, in the event that massive fires raging along the route affect the event this coming Sunday. Mark Cavendish and his teammate Mark Renshaw are amongst those set to take part this year. The Cycle Tour, which is in its 38th year, is the largest, timed cycling...
Not all cyclists are good
This cheeky thief is using his bicycle as a getaway vehicle after doing a drive-by mobile phone snatch in London. The robbery happened at 5pm on January 26th in central London. Be vigilant when using the phone in public as you can see from the video how quickly something like this can happen.
Cyclist stabbed and killed in London
The attack happened yesterday in Caledonian Road, Islington when a group attacked four cyclists in an attempt to steal their bikes on the busy London road. Alan Cartwright is seen in the video in the blue body warmer cycling a few meters ahead of his friends when the assalant jumps out from behind a silver minivan and stabs...