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QBP named official North America distributor for MET & Bluegrass Helmets
Quality Bicycle Products (QBP) have announced that it is now the official distributor for MET & Bluegrass Helmets in North America. The company will carry a range of MET and Bluegrass helmets in its six North American distribution centers, with availability to all specialty bicycle retailers...Read more -
6.7% of workers now commuting by bike, says SMS
Fresh Sports Marketing Surveys data suggests that 6.7% of the UK’s working population is now commuting by bike, while the broader modal share appears to have hit 3%. Compared to 2020, the number of people cycling to work has held up strongly. In week one of the study, back in mid-June of 2020, j...Read more -
Geraint Thomas: I’ve crashed in my two main targets but I’ve not had a bad year
Geraint Thomas has talked about the disappointment of crashing out of contention in both the Tour de France and the Tokyo Olympic Games road but vowed to give it ‘one more push’ for the time trial on Wednesday. Thomas crashed out of the men’s road race at the weekend after his teammate Tao Geogh...Read more -
Raw material cost rises to prompt price increases from MIPS
In its interim report for the first half of 2021, Swedish protection label MIPS has discussed up coming price increases being an unavoidable consequence of rising raw material costs. The announcement was included in the firm’s financial update, with headlined with a 139% organic growth in Q2. “T...Read more -
Are E-Bikes for Kids a Bad Idea?
Advocates of pricy, battery-boosted models encourage parents to take any opportunity to get their kids outside. Detractors say children are too irresponsible to handle the risk. Here, we debate both sides. NO, IT’S A GOOD IDEA. ANY OPPORTUNITY TO GET KIDS EXERCISING IS WORTH IT Biking the flat s...Read more -
Rapha Classic – preserving performance and nature
Cycling is strangely obsessed with technological innovation and reinvention, yet we still ride on steel axles and spokes, and regard Merino wool with all the reverence that made it the first performance riding fabric. When tradition meets innovation, great things happen. Rapha proved this when...Read more -
When you have given everything, you can’t be disappointed
A man can run up a debt at the Tour de France, but sooner rather than later, the race demands that he settles his account. On Saturday, Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) showed enterprise to get in the day’s break and move up seven places to second place overall. Just 24 hours later, the Frenchman was ...Read more -
SOMETIMES THE RACE IS JUST A LITTLE TOO LONG
Brent Van Moer looked over his shoulder, saw the peloton round the bend, shook his head and pressed on. The 23-year-old Belgian had been off the front of the race for the entire day, having gone on the attack with Cofidis’s Pierre-Luc Périchon with 137.5 km remaining in a 150 km stage. After an...Read more -
I WANT YOU TO LOVE CRIT RACING LIKE I LOVE CRIT RACING
A single line from a conversation I had with L39ION’s Justin Williams a year ago still regularly runs through my head. “We failed the fixie kids,” he said. A decade ago, there were thousands, tens of thousands, of kids on fixed gears in cities across the world. Black and brown and white and gay...Read more
