Mads Pedersen suffered a hard crash on stage 5 and has abandoned the Tour de France this morning as a precaution, but also to focus on the Olympic Games. The Lidl-Trek rider stayed in the race for two days after the fall, but tells how worried the team was with his state after the time-trial reveale...

What could be better than starting a day at Eurobike with French croissants and Italian coffee? Quite a few things! For example, meeting the whos who of the bike industry in a casual setting. Sounds good? Sure, but it gets even better at least for Sandra and Heiko from Riese & Mller, who also received the DOWNTOWN Magazine award for the best cargo bike of 2024. Oh yes, we also had the Mona Lisa at our stand but we decided to keep that one for ourselves Enjoy the impressions and if youre at the Eurobike on the visitor days: come by! We are in Hall 12, Stand B03. Its worth it, we promise! The code word for the best coffee at the fair (at our stand) is: I love DOWNTOWN.See you there!Der Beitrag From Croissants to Cargo Bikes: Discover the Best at Eurobike! erschien zuerst auf GRAN FONDO Cycling Magazine.

We've trawled the halls of Eurobike in Frankfurt to bring you news of some of the best new cycling tech around right now in this special edition of Tech of the Week

Wout van Aert's season was turned on it's head with the brutal crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen. Cobbled monuments and Giro d'Italia out the window and the Tour de France was inserted. The Olympic Games remained the only untouched goal for the summer and the Belgian rider remains focused on it, but no...

After a stunning performance at the 2023 Tour de France, winning four stages and taking home the Green Jersey, Jasper Philipsen has been unable to replicate that form at the 2024 edition as of yet. Having been relegated from 2nd on the stage 6 bunch sprint after the race jury deemed Philipsen had da...

After a turbulent few years, the bike industry is set to stabilise and make a gradual recovery, with significant upside in the medium to long term

Whilst time trials have never been the strongest of disciplines for Egan Bernal, even when he was at his Grand Tour winning best level of 2019-2021, the INEOS Grenadiers man put in a solid effort on stage 7 of the 2024 Tour de France, keeping the top 10 of the general classification in his sights."...

As has often been the case for Stefan Kung in the biggest races, bad luck struck again on the stage 7 individual time trial at the 2024 Tour de France. Having been motoring along nicely, the Swiss powerhouse was looking set for the provisionally fastest time before a dropped chain somewhat disrupted...

Richard Shakespeare accused of having enough time in his schedule to meet with a well-funded lobby organisation who have a vested interest in car parks but not commuter, health, and environment campaigners.In what has been widely seen as an extraordinary turn of events with the saga of the Dublin City Centre Transport Plan, the chief executive of Dublin City Council has said he is unavailable to meet groups who support the councils own plan after it was reported he met with a lobby group against the plan.This has prompted a protest at 5.30pm on Monday, July 8th, at City Hall ahead of a meeting which is to be attended by councillors and the councils chief executive Richard Shakespeare.The main element of the plan which is scheduled to go ahead in August is bus gates on the north and south quays at OConnell Bridge where car traffic is disruptive to public transport but only represents 2% of people being transported in the junctions around the bridge.On the Today with Claire Byrne show this week, Jean McCabe, CEO of Retail Excellence Ireland, said that an intervention by Emer Higgins, Minister of State with responsibility for business, employment, and retail on behalf of the car-focused lobby group Dublin City Centre Traders Alliance gave themaccess to Shakespeare.The Dublin City Centre Traders Alliance which was set up to oppose the College Green Plaza and whose only apparent activity is lobbying against car-free streets, cycle routes, and bus priority measures is made up of Brown Thomas Arnotts, Jervis Shopping Centre, Retail Excellence Ireland, Restaurants Association of Ireland, Louis Copeland & Sons, Irish Parking Association, Best Car Parks, and Fitzwilliam Real Estate Capital.In response to Shakespeare saying he is awaiting an economic assessment report written for the alliance lobby group before he decides if the plan goes ahead next month as planned, a number of groups who support the plan sought an emergency meeting with Shakespeare.The nine signees to a letter looking for the meeting are the Dublin Commuter Coalition, the Dublin Cycling Campaign, An Taisce, Irish Doctors for the Environment, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, the Sustainability Action Research & Innovation Lead at Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), the Irish Heart Foundation, I Bike Dublin and The Bike Hub.But Shakespeare has said he is not available. A reply from his office said: Mr Shakespeare is not available to meet at this time and that The open letter received from the Commuter Coalition will be brought to Mr Shakespeares attention.On hearing the news, Dublin City-based TD, Neasa Hourigan (Green Party) tweeted: If this looks like an unelected official setting aside years of a process of policy development, public consultation, and agreed political support on the Dublin Transport Plan cause some car parks owners say so?thats probably because it is.Jason Cullen, chair of the Dublin Commuter Coalition, said: We were extremely frustrated to hear from Mr Shakespeares office that he is not available to meet with the citys leading health, environmental, academic, and transport campaigners, despite having enough time in his schedule to meet with a well-funded lobby organisation who have a vested interest in car parks.He said: The Dublin City Centre Transport Plan is scheduled to deliver vital infrastructure on the quays next month to ensure bus and cycling priority, but that is seemingly facing delays while Mr Shakespeare awaits a last-minute economic plan from a group that didnt see it as important enough to mention, across their two responses to the projects consultation.In the absence of a meeting with the chief executive, the Dublin Commuter Coalition, and the co-signee organisations, have called for a protest on Monday evening at 5.30pm, ahead of the Council meeting at Dublin City Hall, which will be attended by Mr Shakespeare and all 63 Councillors, he said.Cullen added: The Commuters of Dublin City will not stand idly by and allow a solitary civil servant to placate a private lobby group intent on maintaining the status quo in one of the worlds most congested cities. He will hear our collective voices on Monday evening, whether hes willing to make time in his schedule or not.Dublin City Council were contacted last night for comment.

Primoz Roglic has seemed the most vulnerable of the Big 4 general classification contenders at the 2024 Tour de France so far this race. In the stage 7 individual time trial however, the Slovenian showed signs that he is starting to ride himself into the race and may only be getting stronger.Finish...