The heat is on. All over the globe there are professionals hitting the races that their teams have had scheduled for them with all the venom that they can muster. It's the build up to the Worlds and in doing so national team managers and selective committies will be following their national riders form very closely. Scrutinising the riders and whittling down the guys with the form from the guys who haven’t. [caption id="attachment_8415" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="From the crazy city of Melbourne to the Flat beaches of Geelong"][/caption] This year it's a first, Australia have never held the world championships. Five days of ...
With the season slowly coming to a close in the Northern hemisphere and the post-Tour crits having been done and dusted we move onto the Vuelta. Some like it, some don't and for many it's an excuse to watch hours of cycling on TV - which works great on the weekends! History: First held in 1935 and annually since 1955, the Vuelta runs for three weeks in a changing route across Spain. The inaugural event (1935) saw 50 entrants face a 3,411 km (2,119 mi.) course over only 14 stages. In 1997, the Tour started for the first time in a foreign country. The began in Lisbon, ...
It's that time of year again, when cycling fanatics or geek's depending on your level of fanaticism is (I include myself in the latter) trawls the internet for all the latest gossip on Eurobike. Eurobikes the industry’s biggest cycle show. All the big names are there showing off there new and shinny goodies. Getting us all excited, and looking at our bank accounts wondering if it's possible to live off porridge or any other cheap food for 2 months so that when the new stuff hits the shops we can afford that new frame or set of wheels. We've got a few ...
It’s that time of year again, when cycling fanatics or geek’s depending on your level of fanaticism is (I include myself in the latter) trawls the internet for all the latest gossip on Eurobike. Eurobikes the industry’s biggest cycle show. All the big names are there showing off there new and shinny goodies. Getting us [...]
Team PBK.com manager and rider James Smith has a go at getting a professional bike fit. We’ve all seen the adverts and flyers, but is the initial cost really worth it? We hope to find out: “The advantages of a professional cycle fitting are many, from correcting poor position, increasing power, reducing the risk of [...]
The heat is on. All over the globe there are professionals hitting the races that their teams have had scheduled for them with all the venom that they can muster. It’s the build up to the Worlds and in doing so national team managers and selective committies will be following their national riders form very [...]
With the season slowly coming to a close in the Northern hemisphere and the post-Tour crits having been done and dusted we move onto the Vuelta. Some like it, some don’t and for many it’s an excuse to watch hours of cycling on TV – which works great on the weekends! History: First held in [...]
Ridiculous and outrageous hair cuts. There’s a few of them in the professional peloton and for some reason, them eastern Europeans seem to be leading the way in this particular field. Just take a look at the Astana roster for this year, a good quarter of them have a dodgy barnet. It’s not a new thing either, [...]
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