2015 Tour of Britain route announced
The 2015 Friends Life Tour of Britain has been officially launched in London this evening, with a route that includes the race's toughest ever summit finish, a revamped final stage in the heart of London and a first ever Grand Depart for Wales. Other firsts for British Cycling's premier road cycling event include a stage start in the Scottish capital...
Skins Chairman Jaimie Fuller speaks out about Team Sky’s zero tolerance policy
Jaimie Fuller, the chairman of the Australian sportswear company SKINS wrote a piece earlier this week about the zero tolerance policy used by Team Sky, and why it's unrealistic stance to take. This is the article below: In case you didn’t know, Team Sky is the British cycling team that took out the Tour de France titles in 2012 and...
Impressive skill from Italian rider Vittorio Brumotti
This is pretty impressive from Vittorio Brumotti, with absolutely no room for error. Brumotti holds an impresive ten Guinness World Records, including longest platform to platform bicycle jump, most consecutive back wheel pogo hops and highest jump into water from a bicycle. He also made a world record climb o a bike up the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai.
Why a lot of cyclists won’t mourn Jeremy Clarkson disappearing from our TV screens
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has hinted that he is set to leave the BBC, which follows on from his suspension for allegedly punching Oisin Tymon, an Irish producer of the programme. It has been claimed that Clarkson called Tymon ‘a lazy, Irish c**t’, If he does leave Top Gear, a lot of cyclists won't be too disappointed with the...
Driver over the double solid lines takes out cyclist
The driver of this car was clearly over the double solid yellow lines in the middle of the road going around a left hand corner when a cyclist coming in the opposite direction gets taken out by the side of his car. The cyclist seemed a bit dazed after the incident but didn't look like anything major got...
Top 10 Mountain Bikers that switched to the Road
Global Cycling Network have put together their top ten list of off road riders that made the switch to the road. In all but one case the riders excelled on the road.
Highlights of the first round of the Women’s Road World Cup, the Ronde van Drenthe
The 138-km race was the first round of the 2015 UCI Women Road World Cup starting and finishing in Hoogeveen. Some 120 riders took to the start of the 2015 edition of the race, in dry but cold and foggy conditions. It was the 9th edition of the race, and the riders would have to cover a number of...
Former Olympic athlete Marian Heffernan talks about the appeal of cycling
Amongst the ambassadors for the recently launched An Post cycle series in Ireland is former international athlete Marian Heffernan. The 400 metre runner competed for Ireland in the 4 x 400m relay at the London Olympics in 2012. She is also a former national women's 400m champion. Since retirement, Marian has been involved in coaching her husband Rob, who won...
Irish riders Eddie Dunbar and Jack Wilson in attacking form in Belgium
Irish riders Jack Wilson (An Post - Chainreaction) and Eddie Dunbar (NFTO) put in good performances today in the UCI 1.2 Omloop van het Waasland in Belgium, as they both made it into breaks during the day. The 192 km race in the region between Antwerp and Ghent consisted of an initial 62 km loop followed by nine laps of...
Belgian champion Jolien D’hoore speaks about anorexia problems in the peloton
Belgian champion Jolien D'hoore (24) has spoken to Het Nieuwsblad about problems she witnesses in the peloton with anorexia. "I may be a professional cyclist," she says, "but I'm not on the scales every day. As a sprinter, I have to watch my weight, but if I weigh a kilo or two extra, that is not a disaster. What adds...
Sean Kelly wins on the Col d’Eze in the ’82 Paris-Nice (VIDEO)
Paris-Nice finishes on the Col d'Eze today, and it was a climb that Irish riders won on from 1981 to 1989 in the Race to the Sun, with Sean Kelly taking five wins to Stephen Roche's four. We look back at Kelly's first victory on the climb in 1982. Following on from Stephen Roche's overall win in the 1981 Paris-Nice,...
Lance Armstrong to ride some of the Tour de France route to raise money for charity
Lance Armstrong is set to ride some of the Tour de France route this year to help raise money for the Cure Leukaemia charity. He has been invited by former footballer Geoff Thomas who is aiming to raise more than £1 million. Former English international Thomas is cycling the entire route of this summer’s Tour de France one day ahead...