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The chasse à la canette
"Riders now, they go faster than we did," Jean Stablinski used to say. "But they're not that impressive. Every time you get a technical improvement, the speed goes up, especially in the mountains. But above all, these days they don't finish with their heads caved in." Eh? (08/10) ReadYou may also like
Endurance mountain biking relatively safe: study
ABC News | 03/07/08 
The study examines injury and illness rates of nearly 15,000 elite and recreational riders during eight years of endurance races.
It shows hotter and ... More
Two bikers go to the extreme
Hometown Weekly | 26/06/08
Sophomores Peter McNulty and Mike Gross don't spend their summer weekends hanging out around town. They get up at 6:00am on most Saturdays, pack up the ... More
‘Bike mystery is simply baffling'
Bradford Telegraph Argus, | 12/06/08
Residents have been left baffled by a bicycle which has been left securely locked in their private car-park for more than two months.
The 18-speed dual ... More
Get In The Saddle
Daily Record | 12/06/08
THERE are many good reasons to cycle. But if you haven't sat on a saddle for many years, you might need some new kit to get you started.
First, you ... More
Teen steals bike ... at gunpoint
Ottawa Sun | 06/06/08
A teenager wearing a black T-shirt with "shady" written on it made off with a $3,500 mountain bike in a gunpoint robbery Wednesday in Kanata, city police ... More
Giro d'Italia classifications demystified
Cyclingnews | 15/05/08
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
British cyclist Tom Austin among latest victims on the Road of Death
Timesonline | 01/05/08 
As the Unduavi-Yolosa Highway in Bolivia winds down 12,000ft (3.6km) over 40 miles, its sheer drops and sudden bends present an irresistible challenge ... Read
Dirtgirls
Bikemagic | 08/02/07
Alpine holiday company Flow MTB premiered its Dirtgirls women's weeks last year, and they were clearly successful - it'll be running them this summer ... Read
Trapped in a vicious cycle
The Times | 28/09/06
Matt Carroll was looking for a mountain bike challenge but a 24-hour race called Sleepless in the Saddle was more than he bargained for. ‘Darling?” my ... Read
Koreans win big at Vietnamese bike race
Thanhniennews | 03/05/07
Gong Hyo Suk took the mountain climbing title while his countryman Oh Se Yong took the overall race with a time of 35:38:06 hours. South Korea also snatched ... Read
Student Hopes To Break Human Land Speed Record Using Bullet Shaped Bicycle
Science Daily | 13/09/07
Bouchard, a senior in mechanical engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will try to break the collegiate human-powered land speed record of 61.5 ... 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
All you need to know about: mountain-biking
Guardian | 07/06/07
Oli Beckingsale is the British mountain bike champion and Commonwealth Games silver medallist. Keep your tyres soft Unlike a road bike, where you want ... 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
Cannondale Issues Safety Recall on Lefty Forks
Cannondale | 24/05/07
Cannondale has voluntarily issued a Safety Recall Notice with the Consumer Product Safety Commission involving any 2007 and some 2008 mountain bikes equipped ... Read
Cycle thieves 'dismantle' garage
BBC | 15/12/06
Determined thieves took apart a Darlington man's garage brick by brick to steal mountain bikes worth £6,000.
The gang also dismantled three street ... Read
Basic training gets bike riders in gear for the trail
Seattle Post Intelligencer | 31/08/06
Falling off a pair of spinning wheels happens too fast for your life to flash through your mind, but you usually can get a curse word out and -- surprisingly ... Read
Free-wheeling around the world
Nouse.uk | 31/05/07
York graduate Andrew Welch plans to break world records by circumnavigating the planet on a mountain bike, a journey which has been dubbed ‘Ride-Earth'. ... Read
Big wheels OK, say UCI
Bikemagic.com | 14/12/06
Gary Fisher has managed to persuade the UCI to allow 29in wheeled bikes to take part in mountain bike races. He's been working on the UCI for several ... Read
On the Road for 4 Years and 25,000 Miles
The New York Times | 19/10/06
In a sense, cycling around the world was easy. I bought a steel mountain bike (which I had to weld back together six times), put a repair kit, tent, sleeping ... Read
Winning the Tour de France Takes Grit, Strength--And Cutting-Edge Technology
Scientific American | 03/07/08
To wear the winner's distinctive yellow jersey when this year's Tour de France ends in Paris on July 27, cyclists must make every second count throughout ... More
U B the expert: Do your own bike repairs
WalletPop | 03/07/08
I've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of bicycle riders in my hometown this summer, many, I presume, driven to pedal by the rise in gas costs. ... More
Endurance mountain biking relatively safe: study
ABC News | 03/07/08
The study examines injury and illness rates of nearly 15,000 elite and recreational riders during eight years of endurance races.
It shows hotter and ... More
Is Pierre Rolland France's next big thing?
Cyclingnews | 20/06/08
It was touching to see Pierre Rolland kissing his polka dot jersey at the end of this month's Dauphiné. After getting to know him through his team ... More
Mr Who does talking on the bike
News.com.au | 12/06/08
Lined up beside gold medallists Ryan Bayley and Anna Meares, it was not exactly Phil Who?
He's a lot better than that.
But even Thuaux was surprised ... More
2,000 Naked Cyclists to Ride through 7 UK Cities
pressdispensary | 06/06/08
The World Naked Bike Ride ( www.worldnakedbikeride.org ) is now in its fifth year, and the rides in early June 2008 are expected to mobilise 2,000+ riders ... More
The wheelbarrow-bike that could be the solution to school-run traffic jams
MailonLine | 29/05/08
It looks like a wheelbarrow attached to a bike - but transport experts believe it could be the solution to school-run traffic.
Families in Richmond ... More
Common bike helmet mistakes that put riders at risk
kpic.com | 29/05/08
You wear a helmet when you ride a bike because you expect it to protect your head if you fall or crash. But safety experts warn as many as half of all ... More
Reflectivity, why not more?
Bicycle Desgn | 22/05/08
This picture, from our local bike to work day breakfast last week, shows one of the red blinkie lights on the back of my commuter bike. I have one on my ... More
Giro d'Italia classifications demystified
Cyclingnews | 15/05/08
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
Cycling Success Measured in Frequent-Flier Miles
The New York Times | 09/05/08
EARLY last year, Dr. Jason Newland, a 34-year-old pediatric infectious disease physician from Stilwell, Kan., decided he would upgrade his Cannondale road ... More
Riding clean
Rocky Mountain News | 26/06/07
Discouraged by the direction his sport was taking, competitive amateur cyclist Doug Lovejoy started a grassroots movement last summer he hopes will become ... Read
Sitting In: It's Millar Time
Bicycling | 02/03/07
There are very few iconic cyclists — the kinds of riders who not only illuminate some elemental quality about what my friend Steak calls the human condition, ... Read
Drug claims are rubbish: O'Grady
The Sydney Morning Herald | 19/10/06
TOUR de France cyclist Stuart O'Grady has dismissed claims that almost all the sport's elite riders are drug cheats. O'Grady, who has returned to Adelaide ... Read
Introducing The ProTour Team Cars
PEZCycling | 29/03/07
PEZ correspondent, Pascal Orsini, was on the loose at Paris-Nice with his trusty camera, and unlike most who aim for the riders and their steeds, he took ... Read
Bruyneel defends decision to sign 'the best rider in the world'
Velonews | 23/11/06
Discovery Channel team manager Johan Bruyneel on Saturday responded to the critics over his decision to sign Italian star Ivan Basso. Bruyneel's decision ... Read
The Soigneur
Pez Cyclingnews | 02/03/07
She's been the soigneur to many champions in the world of pro cycling from Ivan Basso and Jens Voigt to sprinters like Robbie McEwen and Stuart O'Grady. ... Read
No ear piece required
Cyclingnews.com | 31/05/07
"It's not that I refuse it," said Di Luca, referring to his lack of an ear piece which many riders in the modern peloton cannot function without. "But ... Read
The Grand Prix La Marseillaise
Procycling | 08/02/07
Jeremy Hunt, a man so often overlooked by British selectors, made a flying start to the season with a win today that said much about his qualities as an ... Read
Bike Riding Polish Governor Had No License
Masterpage | 01/02/07
When Polish police order a weaving bicycle rider to stop he fell off the bike as he tried to leave the road and get on the sidewalk. The rider turned out ... Read