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...
Friday Feature Film – A Sunday in Hell
It's Friday time to plug the laptop into the TV and grab the popcorn and inspire yourself for a weekend of riding the bike. A Sunday in Hell (original title: En Forårsdag i Helvede) is a 1976 Danish documentary directed by Jørgen Leth. The film is a chronology of the 1976 Paris–Roubaix bicycle race from the perspective of participants, organizers...
Cyclist rammed off the road and then attacked
Surveillance video from West Palm Beach, Florida shows a January 5th incident in which bicyclist Albert Johnson is knocked off his bike by a pickup and then attacked by its driver. The incident began after an argument between Johnson and the driver as he tailgated him and a friend riding their bikes on the street, and resulted in Johnson...
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...