Stories about Watts. Improving sprints with Nacer Bouhanni
Cofidis and Nacer Bouhanni reveal their techniques at their training camp in this video from Orbea to help improve their sprinting. Using two scooters, each rider in turn, sprints from one scooter to the next, before decelerating and dropping back to the first sccooter. Each rider does this ten times. They also outline the work done to help improve their...
Eddie Dunbar in tremendous day-long solo break in La Côte Picarde
(Photo @bogaertsk) Eddie Dunbar had another very impressive performance today in the 180-km La Côte Picarde, the second round of the Nations Cup, as he spent much of the day on a solo attack gaining nearly eight minutes on the peloton at one stage. The Irish team of Dunbar, Daniel Stewart, Javan Nulty, Jack Wilson and Sean McKenna faced many of...
UCI Statement on safety at races
After two recent incidents at Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of the Basque Country, the UCI have released a statement on safety at races. Firstly, at the Tour of the Basque Country, numerous riders came down due to a crash in the final kilometre of one of the stages. It emerged that bollards had not been removed from the road, and...
Bradley Wiggins to take on hour record
Bradley Wiggins is the latest cyclist to announce an attempt on the World Hour Record. He is due to take on the challenge on 7 June at London’s Olympic Velodrome. “The hour record is a holy grail for cyclists,” Wiggins told The Guardian. “It’s been fought over tooth and nail by some of the greatest names in our sport for...
NEW SRAM 1x Road Groupset
We've seen 1x systems on mountain bikes for some time now and more recently in cyclocross. SRAM have just released a 1x system for road bikes. Chain ring sizes are available in 38-54 and the system on average will save you 170 grams but more importantly will greatly reduce the risk of dropping the chain off the...
From Genocide To A Cycling Team In Rwanda
Samuel Mugisha always dreamed of professional cycling as a way to support his family. But after he won a coveted spot on Team Rwanda, his dream grew. In a country still showing the scars of genocide, Samuel discovered that cycling for his country comes with important responsibilities. Check out this short movie titled, King Of The Mountain: From...
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Drone footage of Lacets de Montvernier
The Lacets de Montevernier are set to feature in this year's Tour de France on the stage from Gap to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. The climbs features 18 hairpins and is spectacular. It's only 3.3km long with an average gradient of 7.8%, and it's maximum percentage is 21.2%. It climbs 258m. The hairpins come in quick succession, about every 150 metres. The road was...
Mind that barrier
Yellow tinted glasses were the apparent cause of this rider not seeing the barrier until it was too late. Both rider and bike escaped unscathed but the barrier will need some superglue to put it back together.
“My figures over the winter were really good and I just need to get back to where I was” Sean Downey
Despite a very promising start to the season where he finished in 30th place in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, Sean Downey of An Post-Chain Reaction has struggled since then due to illness. However, he’s hopeful that he’s over the worst of it, and will be back on form soon. We spoke to the Down man about the opening few months of his...
Yerka “The unstealable bike”
Thi bicycle has been developed by three Chilean engineering students; Juan José Monsalve, Andrés Roi and Cristóbal Cabello. The ‘Yerka‘ project maintains the design of an urban bike yet incorporates a closing frame device to improve security. To thieves, every lock can be broken whilst leaving the bicycle intact, and the creators have made a strong clamp out of...
This cyclist is lucky to be alive
The cyclist who got hit by the truck was lucky to end up with just a double lower leg fracture if you consider how close he came to ending up under the truck. All three riders were lucky that there was no other vehicle coming up behind them as they were all taken down in this horrific crash.