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Toronto Star 1 | 29/05/08 iVelo
Thirty-seven years after this race started, Grace Ramos stood, holding a video camera, at what her mother called "the finish line." In Ecuador, men ... More

How To Turn a Bicycle into a Record Player

Brightcove.com | 15/02/07
This two guys, one in a purple T shirt, the other in orange need exactly 12768 Easy Steps that is 12 minutes and 24 seconds of experimental video to dismantle ... Read

A smart way to reduce a bike's weight

Videolog.tv | 16/11/06
A young brazilian boy has come up with a very smart and logical way to reduce his bike's weight. Even if using it requires some sesne of equilibrium, ... Read

Video diary of a bike nut part two

BBC | 03/05/07
The winner of our cycling competition, Martin Page, is not what you would call an experienced cyclist. In fact the three miles he covers to and from work ... Read

The Tour en Angleterre - making the video

Cyclingnews | 26/10/06
There's been plenty of hype surrounding the announcement of next year's Tour de France route - which is due to be announced today. The announcement in ... Read

Men Who Shave Their Legs

Active.com | 12/06/08 iVelo
It was the summer of 1990, and Stephen Bullard had become a dedicated triathlete—fit and fast for swimming, running and cycling after five years of regular ... More

How to train for a triathlon

SunHerald.com | 29/05/08 iVelo
Racing from one sport to another in a triathlon takes skill and experience. So does trying to keep up speed through three sports. Many triathletes are ... More

Giro d'Italia classifications demystified

Cyclingnews | 15/05/08 iVelo
To wear any special jersey in the Giro d'Italia is a great honour - one which all riders dream of gaining. If a rider takes the lead in one of the jersey ... More

Pretty in pink

BBC | 09/05/08 iVelo
Although not as iconic as its elder French cousin, the Giro is one third of cycling's "Triple Crown", along with Le Tour and the Road World Championships. It ... More

Victoria Pendleton: pedal to the medal

Telegraph | 01/05/08
Gold medals are rare treasures for British athletes. But the track cyclist Victoria Pendleton already has quite a collection of them, beginning with the ... Read

Danish capital to host string of cycling world championships

International Herald Tribune | 26/01/07
Denmark has been awarded three international cycling races. The 2008 BMX world championship and the 2010 indoor cycling worlds will be held in Copenhagen, ... Read

Bike lamp outshines competition

The Sydney Morning Herald | 17/05/07
There was a waterless urinal for a country in drought, a double-ended "clever peg" for those short on hanging space, and a new Commodore - but the Australian ... Read

No USADA testing at 'Toona raises questions

Cyclingnews | 20/08/07
The International Tour de 'Toona, one of the two highest rated, non-championship races on USA Cycling's NRC calendar, had no US Antidoping Agency (USADA) ... Read

Green machines for our selves and the planet

Tandem | 24/05/07
Bicycle riding in North America has increased in popularity in recent years and the month of May in the GTA provides much evidence of this. This weekend ... Read

Dahle-Flesjå and Absalon the best ever?

Velonews | 05/01/07
Perhaps it's no surprise that Gunn-Rita Dahle-Flesjå and Julien Absalon earned top mountain-bike honors in the VeloNews Awards for the third year running. ... Read

Oli's mountain bike diary, part 1

BBC | 31/08/07
The days are counting down and now it�s only 10 days to the biggest MTB race of the year and my season�s goal, the World Championships. The ... Read

Online Exclusive: The Alien Returns

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Africans set for ride of their life at world championships

Turkish Press | 22/09/06
African cyclist Jeremie Ouedraogo will wear a wry smile when he lines up alongside his hero, Alexandre Vinokourov, when the men's road race starts at ... Read

Cycling struggles for support as doping takes a toll

International Herald Tribune | 03/05/07
With the Tour de France approaching this summer, the sport of cycling is taking brutal spills in corporate suites, where deals are made to sponsor competitions ... Read

Millar's time-trial bid punctured

Guardian | 22/09/06
Given that he is less than three months into his comeback to racing after his two-year doping ban, and is probably fortunate merely to be competing in ... Read

Wheels of hope turn in Rwanda

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Bright yellow, green and blue jackets stood out in the departure lounge of Kigali's international airport. Rwanda's young national cycling team was on ... Read

Who can beat Garth?

Bermuda Sun | 08/02/07
Mechanical problems and being unavailble may have cost Garth Thompson a serious crack at top spot in the mountain bike points series. But he is still the ... Read

Vinokourov eyes world title finale

CNN | 22/09/06
Tour of Spain winner Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhstan is determined to round off his season with victory in the World Championships this week. The 33-year-old ... Read

Town hosts bicycle bog snorkelling contest

icWales | 10/07/07
A mountain biking event with a difference will take place later today in a town famed for its oddball competitions. The annual World Mountain Biking Bog ... Read

Road World Championships TV - Revolution Returns!

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Revolution returns on October 14th with a distinct Italian flavour as the Manchester Velodrome will play host to some top road names from recent years. ... Read

Tubeless Tyres Set For Breakthrough

Bike Europe | 22/05/08 iVelo
The first road win on the professional circuit for commercially available road tubeless tyres took place last March at the ‘Omloop Het Volk'. The technology ... More

French suppliers hit with anti-comp fine

Bikebiz.co.uk | 12/01/07
Some of biggest names in the French bicycle industry have been fined a collective total of 508,000 Euro (£340k) for anti-competitive practices that ... Read

Transcript: Yoshizo Shimano, Chairman of Shimano

CNN | 02/11/06
Yoshizo Shimano straddles two of the world's most influential corporate cultures - the U.S. and the Japanese way of doing business. He heads the family-run ... Read

Coping with bike flat situations

heNewsTribune.com | 20/06/08 iVelo
A bicycle tire problem can quickly interrupt - or even spoil - a day of serious open road or mounting biking. Sometimes tire damage hazards can't be ... More

What makes a great bike ride?

The Guardian | 12/06/08 iVelo
Quite a few of our celebrities have nominated relatively short routes near their homes for Bike Week rides, for example James Cracknell's jaunt along ... More

Ride a bike and save the world

Canöe | 29/05/08 iVelo
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." - H.G. Wells Science has had a tremendous impact on ... More

On your bike, Boris

The Guardian | 15/05/08 iVelo
One of Boris Johnson's key election promises during the recent mayoral campaign was to make transport safer in London, but it seems he has failed to read ... More

Ride With the Big Boys

The New York Times | 26/04/07
Summer is biking season in Europe, and not just for the desperate 200 or so who form the Tour de France peloton. Anybody with a bike and a good pair of ... Read

Bike lamp outshines competition

The Sydney Morning Herald | 17/05/07
There was a waterless urinal for a country in drought, a double-ended "clever peg" for those short on hanging space, and a new Commodore - but the Australian ... Read

Insider's tour of Marin, on two wheels

Los Angeles Times | 08/12/06
WAITING for my latte at Tiburon's Cafe Acri, I was surrounded by a dozen men in powder-blue spandex. Their legs were closely shaved, and they walked in ... Read

The short version of the 2006 24 Hours of Moab

Cyclingnews | 09/11/06
That's right. Mother Nature moved in quick to drastically shorten the 24 Hours of Moab for soloists by two thirds. My winning finishing time was eight ... Read

Bikes that automatically shift appeal to non-riders

Deseret News | 03/05/07
Bill Lange thought his bike riding days were over. Gears were complicated. Stores were intimidating. Plus he wasn't exactly itching to put those tight ... Read

South Africa: Putting Rural Children On Wheels

allAfrica.com | 26/04/07
RON Thompson is happiest when riding his bike. He has devoted his time, energy and money to finding ways of putting thousands of poor people, and especially ... Read

Get on your bikes, the green Prince of Wales tells his staff

The Telegraph | 23/11/06
The Prince of Wales is urging his staff to help fight global warming by providing bicycles for them to make short trips around the capital instead of taking ... Read

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The roll-out of Boeing's Dreamliner has offered weighty proof that carbon fibre is at last being used to make big things in large quantities. But the ... Read

And now! Eurobike the Movie

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Carlton Reid from Bikebiz has brought back a short movie from the latest ... Read