Fancy yourself as a useful mechanic? How about building your frame then? That's exactly what Charlie Whitfield did, taking the raw steel tubing and learning to make a frame. Dave Yates is a frame builder from the North East best known

Although I've been back for a few days and actually completed the Cingles on 9 August, it's taken a while to digest this one. And pick up the proverbial pen and paper! This, as last year, is a bit long, as

So it had finally come round, the event that I had been looking forward to all year. I really had no illusions or expectations going into the event, all I wanted to do was to gain some experience and ride

Grey skies, strong winds and the threat of rain was the order of the day for the riders that had turned out for the Olympic Omnium track racing at Herne Hill Velodrome on Saturday 31 July, writes John Coolahan. For

Herne Hill Velodrome An absolute scorcher of a day greeted the riders at Herne Hill for the annual South East Track Championships, it seemed that the heat would be the main competitor of the day rather than the other riders all competing

About the event In August 2007, more than 4 000 randonneurs gathered in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines near Paris to enter into the legend of the Paris-Brest-Paris (PBP) Randonneur. Since 1931, thousands of randonneurs have tried their hand at the most famous brevet at

The first edition of the Tour de France was held in 1903. It was hard from the start, with 300km stages common. From 1905, the race visited several climbs in the Alsace region, such as the Ballon d'Alsace. It wasn't