The An Post Tour de Burren – A date for your diary
The An Post Tour de Burren returns on June 20, 2015 in Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare. The event is one of the five cyclosportives as part of The Cycle Series. This is the 12th year of the An Post Tour de Burren, with 2,000 participants taking to their bikes last year, it was voted the Cycling Ireland Best Leisure Event in...
Regaining Fitness after 10 to 14 days rest – Advice from The Athlete Clinic
The mid season break is finished, the bike is back from the shop all shiny and mechanically sound, the motivation is high and you’ve some time on your hands with the bright mornings and late evenings. What to do!?. Most riders will generally revert to what they were doing before the break or even start doing some long endurance miles...
Six times more expensive to travel by car than by bicycle
It is six times more expensive for society – and for you individually - if you travel by car instead of cycling. This has been shown in a Lund University study of Copenhagen, a city of cyclists. It is the first time a price has been put on car use as compared to cycling. In the comparative study, Stefan Gössling...
Former world track racing champion Martyn Irvine joins strong international line up for An Post Rás
Having dominated the Shay Elliott Memorial last Sunday confirming that his form is in a very good place, Martyn Irvine is a late addition to the Britain Madison-Genesis team for the An Post Rás and will return for the first time since 2012. Irvine is the 2013 World Scratch Race Champion on the track and while he has focused...
Video footage of Daniele Colli in the Giro today which resulted in a broken arm
Two videos below showing the finish line incident where Daniele Colli crashed really hard breaking an arm. It looks as if there was a spectator near the finish line who had their camera over the barrier taking photos which struck the rider causing him to crash. Do we need a crowd buffer zone after recent incidents near...
How to corner like a pro
Our favorite YouTube user durianrider gives some tips for cornering on the road.
The JLT Condor team’s An Post Rás Guide
The JLT Condor team from the UK return to the An Post Rás this year, and this is their guide to the race, which starts on Sunday. The 63rd An Post Rás is one for the punchy climbers. The route encounters the Darty Mountains and slices through the Breifne mountains close to the border with Northern Ireland on its eight...
What stops ordinary people from cycling?
Brent is a London Borough in north west London and is not the most cycle friendly place. The local council produced this short documentary and asked four locals why they don't cycle. All four participants then got a bike for a week to give it a try. Brent Council: Cycling Research 2015 from Postcode Films...
Watch highlights and interview from Sam Bennett’s stage win in Bayern Rundfahrt
Sam Bennett took the opening stage of the UCI 2.HC Bayern Rundfahrt yesterday ahead of Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) and John Degenkolb (Giant Alpecin) from Regensburg to Waldsassen. The rider from Carrick-on-Suir had been out of action for the past five weeks due to injuries from a crash in Scheldeprijs and it was some way to mark his return to racing. In...
Fifty years ago this week, Eddy Merckx took his first pro win
By Graham Healy On May 11th 1965, 20 year-old Eddy Merckx took the win in a race in Northern Brussels, the GP Stad Vilvoorde, and it was the first win of many in a remarkable career. Merckx had a very successful amateur career and in his final season before turning pro, he finished in twelfth position at the 1964 Summer Olympics....
Ouch!! Don’t expect any help from the cameraman
Guy tries to do a dirt jump on a $100 mountain bike. It doesn't end well.
What is in store for the future of MTB?
Bikeradars Jon Woodhouse and Tom Marvin discuss what they think is in the pipeline for mountain bikes in the coming years. They speculate about wireless shifting and intuitive suspension that adjusts automatically to the trails you are riding.