Jul 1, 2013 | Cycling, Etape Mercia
Draft press release – Wallasey (Merseyside) Media – May 2013 WALLASEY BUSINESSMAN SWAPS BUS PASS FOR BIKE IN MEMORY OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS Local businessman Paul Ashbury has no plans to use his new bus pass at 65, instead he’ll be getting on his bike to raise...
Jun 30, 2013 | Road Racing, Tour de France
Well, Stage 1 of the 100th Tour de France has just finished… 22 teams and 198 riders started out from Porto-Vecchio at the southern end of Corsica to ride the 213km to Bastia in the north of the island. A day designed for the sprinters, that could have seen Mark...
May 31, 2013 | Cycling, Road Bikes, Road Cycling, Sportive
“Build it and they will come” was the tag line to the Kevin Costner film – “Field of Dreams”. In 1952, the then Department of Environment, Planning and Development Secretary John Silkin announced that a new town would be built 30 miles...
Aug 26, 2012 | Bradley Wiggins, Cycling, London Olympics 2012, Mark Cavendish, Olympics, Time Trial
The London Olympics (2012) were held from the 27th July to the 12th August 2012. Most of the events were being held in the new Olympic Stadium at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London. Many events such at Rugby, football and sailing were held in various...
Jul 30, 2012 | Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Cycling, Mark Cavendish, Road Racing, Tour de France
The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition of the greatest sporting spectacular on earth. It started in the city of Liege in Belgium on the 30th June and finished 23 gruelling days later in Paris on the 22nd July. It had moved forward a couple of weeks to make way...
