Antonio Tiberi confirmed to be among the main contenders for the Vuelta a Espana podium in the eighth stage of the Spanish Grand Tour. On the steep finish in Cazorla, the Italian surpassed his limits to finish fourth, losing only 17 seconds on the stage winner Primoz Roglic."I suffered a little bit,...

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Things didn't go as envisioned forLennert Van Eetveltin the final kilometers of the stage 8. The young Belgian was held up by a crash as the peloton was approaching the steep final climb in Cazorla. Afterwards, it was a task to limit the damage as much as possible, crossing the line in 9th place."...

The new 20mph default speed limits across parts of Wales may have forced the Junior Tour of Wales into changing its route because the riders and team cars would be speeding but that did not stop Conor Prendergast on Sunday mornings stage 3. The Galway man, guesting with Cycling Leinster this weekend, put []The post Conor Prendergast lets rip with huge solo effort at Junior Tour of Wales appeared first on Sticky Bottle.

Yesterday we lived a surreal episode at the Vuelta a Espana with a pack of deer deciding to greet the cyclists at the Vuelta up close. Sadly, Txomin Juaristi and Giulio Ciccone weren't so happy about this deer meeting as they prefered to bow to the relatives of Santa Claus helper on the ground. In a...

Stage 9 of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana has all the potential to be a key day in the fight for the general classification. One of those still dreaming of a place on the final podium, is Soudal - Quick-Step leader, Mikel Landa.After his 3rd placed finish on stage 8, Landa sits strongly in 5th overall in...

The first week of racing hasn't yet concluded but the fight for the Red Jersey has well and truly sparked into life at the 2024 Vuelta a Espana. Although he may sit 2nd in the general classification, 3:49 down, Primoz Roglic reclaimed the momentum on stage 8 with a brilliant win."Vintage Roglic, on...

Pre-race, everyone was talking about the strength in depth of the UAE Team Emirates lineup at the 2024 Vuelta a Espana. Now though, after Joao Almeida was forced to abandon ahead of stage 9 due to Covid, the team has been left somewhat rudderless."That is very sad. We already saw that he had a bad...

Cycling campaigners have recorded a video showing how a major junction redesign in Dublin 15 disadvantages people using cycle tracks over those who cycle on the road.The junction is part of the Snugborough Interchange Upgrade, a major road widening project over the N3 dual carriageway just southeast of Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. It was designed in 2017. At the time, this website reported that the project included adding capacity for cars and buses with low priority for cycling and walking.Now that the project has been built, Fingal Cycling, a branch of the Dublin Cycling Campaign, timed how fast it takes to turn right while cycling first on the road and then on the cycle tracks and shared crossings. It said that in both cases, it used the worst-case scenario of the light just having turned red.When cycling on the road, the turn right takes 1 minute and 50 seconds, but when cycling using the cycle route, it takes three minutes and nearly 54 seconds.The video also uses a still of a headline from an IrishCycle.com article, which outlines how there is no legal obligation in Ireland to use cycle paths.Oliver Davies, a member of Fingal Cycling, said: Im sure extra car-flow and extra bus-flow is now great, but it seems pedestrians and cyclists are just as neglected as they were with the old design. That prompted me to make this video to show how much longer using the intended cycle design vs. just cycling on the road took. Im sure most confident cyclists will just cycle on the road to get through the junction two minutes quicker, much to the annoyance of some motorists.Davies said he uses this junction as part of a commute from Ongar to Dublin City Centre, occasionally for some local journeys, and previously for both going to school when he was younger and while working as a bicycle courier in Blanchardstown. He said: So its safe to say Ive gone through it a fair bit.It was previously not only a disaster for cars, but dangerous for bicycles and inconvenient to pedestrians. So with the new design I hoped to see an improvement to safety and priority given to walking/cycling, but it only got the former, he said.Davies said: I already knew the design was poor from plans published beforehand showing the car-centric design, but seeing it in person made me realise it was possibly designed by someone whos never cycled in their life. There are unnecessarily long merging lanes for bicycles, no easy way provided to cycle across the junction from East to West and South to West and making cyclists wait for four red ped/cycle lights while in the meantime the single light cars have to go through turned green twice.He added: The design really makes you feel like a third-class citizen if you choose to cycle.New Snugborough road layout. pic.twitter.com/ULAKmYb9d1 Fingal Cycling (@Fingal_Cycling) August 25, 2024