First Race Ends in Puncture

I started my first time trial in about 6 months today. It was raining and pretty windy, and I have to say I was a little tempted to stay at home and watch Team GB win more Gold medals on the track, but I thought it’s about time I started racing (I seem to make […]

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Video – Victoria Pendleton in Keirin.

The Keirin is a type of track race made popular in Japan and integrated into the Cycling World Championships in 1980. A typical race involves 6 to 9 riders who set off, initially behind a motorised rider in front. With 2 laps to go, the motorbike peels off the track leaving the riders alone on […]

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Video Of Bradley Wiggins Gold

Bradley Wiggins won gold on the opening day of the World Championships at Manchester. He successfully defended his title at the 4KM pursuit and now has a great chance of winning Olympic Gold in Beijing. This is a video clip of his successful ride. Bradley Wiggins won Olympic Gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics in […]

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Cycling Weekly on National 10 Mile Time Trial Championship 2008

Our ‘National’ cycling weekly magazine does its best to be professional about the forthcoming National 10 Mile Championship. National 10 Where? Liphook, Hampshire When? May 24-25 Top spot for spectators: The men’s and women’s events are being run simultaneously on the A3, with the men’s event going south and the women’s event going north. Sounds […]

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Training Every Day

At the start of the season I was training 3 times a week. Now I am trying to increase the number of times I go out training. There is always some reason to prevent training every day. But, I am going to try and train 5 times a week, even if I only go out […]

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Milan San Remo 2008

The winner of Milan San Remo 2008 was Fabian Cancellara of the CSC team. In recent years, Milan San Remo has often come down to a bunch sprint, but with 2KM to go Cancellara was able to take advantage of his raw power and time trial strength to break away on the finishing straight and […]

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David Cameron Caught Cycling Through Red Light

Conservative leader David Cameron has apologised after being photographed cycling through red lights and the wrong way down a one way street. “I know it is important to obey traffic laws – but I have obviously made mistakes on this occasion and I am sorry,” There is a video at this BBC of David Cameron’s […]

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Awareness Test for Cyclists

Interesting video here. It is made by Transport for London and seeks to highlight how easy it can be for people to miss obvious things. Will resonate with most cyclists who invariably will have heard the ‘sorry, I didn’t see you there in the middle of the road’

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Custom Cycling Clothes

Review of Custom cycling clothes. A look at what offers best value for the club cyclist in choosing a custom cycle clothe manufactuer

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Do You Go Cycling in the Rain?

My Weather forecast for the next three days. (except the wind is closer to 30mph at the moment( When your cycling for pleasure, there’s not much incentive to go out in a forecast like this. At least the rain is not cold, the worst is a combination of rain and 3 C. When the forecast […]

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Road Bike Frame Size Guide

To avoid risk of (painful injury) there should be a gap of at least 2.5cm between the bike’s top tube and your crotch as you stand over the bike. Finding the correct bike size for a road bike with 700cc tyres First take an inside leg measurement. This is the distance from the floor to […]

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