An Irish cycling show has been announced for the 19th and 20th of May in the RDS Simmonscourt pavilion.  The show will feature exhibitors from every facet of cycling and related industry including cycle retailers and distributors and there will also be emphasis on general feature attractions to entertain the whole family.

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25 years after producing the first hydraulic brake for a mountain bike, German manufacturer Magura has produced a fully hydraulic rim brake for the road, specifically Time trial or triathlon.

As this is a triathlon or TT application there was no need to integrate the lever into a brake and gear setup

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World Champion Mark Cavendish has moved to Team Sky for 2012.  Here in a video with Shimano the talks a little about the  new set up.

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Last week we brought you a maddeningly brief video from Magura that suggests they are moving into the road market at least in braking.  Speculation has been growing with some sites suggesting that they may also be developing an electronic groupset too due to the integration between brakes and shifters on road bikes.  This has [...]

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Training on your own?  No problem with a Garmin.

Winter Training - The Climb from Garmin EMEA on Vimeo.
Make sure and check out the Garmin Winter training website for tips and training plans from the pros.

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Magura have been undergoing something of a renaissance of late.  Their products have always been really dependable and very well made along the lines of DT Swiss and Hope in our estimation. The new MT series of MTB disc brakes being a case in point of how to redesign your brake line.  They have just [...]

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Today being the first day of the new season, riders are free to ride in the gear of their new teams.  This includes World Champion Mark Cavendish who has moved to Team Sky from the now defunct HTC-Highroad.

Cavendish tweeted this photo before heading out on his first training ride of 2012.  The World Champ has [...]

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Stuck for a last minute Christmas gift for the cyclist in your life?  Look no further.

Inside the Peloton is a no holds bared window into the life of a professional cyclist.  Roche has been riding and racing at the highest level for a number of years now and has been simultaneously working out his role [...]

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This is the trailer for a new film that follows the Schleck brothers and their team Leopard-Trek at the 2011 Tour de France.  given that it the result of the race wasn’t what they had hoped for it should make for interesting viewing…

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It has been a crazy few weeks for road racing with Contador in CAS last week, Operation Puerto reopening and the announcement of most of the UCI World Tour teams for 2012.

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Tom Ritchey is a legend in the road and mountain bike world as a purveyor of fine products designed for and by a cyclist.  Newly added to the product lineup are these WCS Apex carbon clinchers and very nice they are too.

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Ever wanted to turn your iPhone into a Garmin?  Sure it does most things but now you can turn it into a Garmin head unit with this handy adapter that allow Android ot Apple iPhones to communicate with heart rate monitors and foot pods reducing the amount of kit you need to carry.  As an [...]

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You gotta love the Manx missile.

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The Road World Championships are currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark and Wednesday saw the Time Trial rainbow jersey on new shoulders.

Despite threatening weather, sixty-five riders took to the 46.4km course to decide on the top Time Trial honours for 2012.  At the end of the day Tony Martin emerged victorious with a masterful ride [...]

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Irish National TT and Road Champion Matt Brammeier has been looking for a new team since the announcement of the end of HTC-Highroad at the end of this season.  Today it has been confirmed that he will move to Belgian squad Quick-Step joining the likes of Tom Boonen and Sylvain Chavanel.
The move has added interest [...]

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Two of the major Pro-Tour squads have announced that they will merge next season to become Radioshack-Nissan-Trek Professional cycling Team.  Speculation in the last few weeks had suggested that Leopard-Trek would be absorbed into Radioshack and it appears that this is what is happening with the exception of the teams home base and license.  Team [...]

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Icebreaker, the merino wool specialists have a new range of bike wear designed specifically for the bike.  We have been testing some of this gear for the past few months and are ready to give some opinions.
Icebreaker Cadence SS jersey

First up it feels totally different to wearing lycra.

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Irish man Dan Martin confirmed his grand Tour credentials with a fantastic win at the Vuelta a Espana on Sunday.  The Garmin-Cervelo rider attacked a number of times in the stage and despite being known as a climber took the stage in a sprint.

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Garmin have just announced details of their newest bike GPS unit, the Edge 200.  Basically a stripped down version of their phenomenally successful Edge 500 unit, it has all the functions you would expect from a bike computer but with the addition of class leading GPS built in which comes to life once connected to [...]

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Garmin have just announced the addition of an ANT+TM compatible power meter to complement its Edge 800 and 500 bike computers.  Named the Vector, it is the lightest weight direct measurement power meter on the market, and designed for quick installation, portability, and ease-of-use. Garmin claim it takes only minutes to install, providing accurate and [...]

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One of the most successful teams in road cycling - HTC-Highroad has announced it will fold at the end of the year following the collapse of negotiations with current and potential sponsors.

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Here are a selection of videos produced by bike companies associated with the Tour de France.  First up the amazing story of Laurens Ten Dam who crashed horribly during the Tour but made it to Paris…

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Cadel Evans will ride into Paris today (all going well) in yellow ahead of the biggest win of his career in arguably the best Tour de France in years.  It was always going to come down to the final timetrial but many of the GC favourites tried their best to turn the tables on the [...]

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As the most exciting Tour in years enters it’s final three days, all the jerseys are within play with very small gaps between all the top contenders in each category.  Yesterday Andy Schleck finally answered his critics by blowing the peloton apart following a very early attack on the Col d’Izoard with over sixty kilometres [...]

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Ten stages in and it’s time to catch up.  Lots of action, lots of crashes and unfortunately lots of GC contenders out of the race.  Oh and as Eurosport put it - “hang on isn’t that Cadel Evans?”…
Stage 4: Lorient - Mûr-de-Bretagne 172km (July 5)

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For those that haven’t seen it here is the video of the crash at the Tour de France involving a French TV car and riders Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil) and Juan Antonio Flecha (Sky Procycling).  The driver has since (unsurprisingly) been thrown off the Tour.  Both riders managed to finish with Hoogerland collecting the polka dot [...]

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Three stages down and World Champion Thor Hushovd of Garmin-Cervelo remains in yellow with teammate Tyler Farrar taking his first stage win after a hectic sprint.  Before we get into that though, lets take a look back at Sundays Team Time Trial.
Stage 1 was all about Alberto Contador losing time in the aftermath of the [...]

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With no prologue, the first stage of the 2011 Tour was always going to be interesting and yesterday was no exception but not for the reasons you might think.  Philippe Gilbert of Omega Pharma-Lotto had been widely tipped to take the stage and the first yellow jersey following a successful spring classic campaign and the [...]

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Irish rider Nicolas Roche will once again lead Ag2R at the Tour de France it was announced today.  The team in full is- Maxime BOUET (FRA), Hubert DUPONT (FRA), John GADRET (FRA), Sébastien HINAULT (FRA), Blel KADRI (FRA), Sébastien MINARD (FRA), Jean-Christophe PERAUD (FRA), Christophe RIBLON (FRA), Nicolas ROCHE (IRL).

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Shimano has just announced that their Di2 electronic shifting technology will be available at Ultegra level from September.

Di2 has been used by pro-riders in the peloton for a few years now and even by sprinters.  Benefits include an auto-tuned front derailleur, pre-programmed gear ratios and precise and quick shifting.  However up until now the price [...]

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