USA Cycling and the Medicine of Cycling group have released recommendations for treatment of riders who have sustained head trauma in cycling. Foremost amongst the guidelines is that any rider with a witnessed loss of consciousness during training or competition should be immediately removed from competition for evaluation by a medical professional trained in diagnosing traumatic brain injury or concussion.
“Concussion can occur without direct impact or loss of consciousness, and can result in physical, cognitive or emotional symptoms that may be evident immediately or evolve over days or weeks,†explained Dr. Anna Abramson of the University of California, San Francisco and co-founder of Medicine of Cycling. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates  … More
After winning the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado in August, Levi Leipheimer returned home to Santa Rosa to warm up for a couple of season-ending races in Canada. Training on the local roads he knows so well, Leipheimer recently found himself returning from St. Helena on Spring Mountain Road.
Leipheimer is a fiend for data, and he knows … More
I’m teetering on the edge of a platform halfway up a mountain, my bike about to plunge down a flight of stairs into the woods. A voice behind me shouts, “Confidence and commitment,” as if he were giving relationship advice. And then, almost as an aside, as I tip over the edge, he says, “Oh, don’t touch your brakes, or you’ll face-plant …”
So goes my Bumps and Bends training session at  … More
A Suffolk student is hoping his sailing bike invention, which began as an A-level project, is going to become big business.
A Dutch firm also developing a sailing bike was so impressed with Ned Aufenast’s prototype that they are working together on a machine which costs £3,000.