Cycling Blog at wheelhub.co.uk

Is it just us, or is the world of advertising cycling products and bikes a bit, well, odd ? If you've been watching the Tour on Eurosport you can't have missed the erm, boring collection of adverts designed to inspire ! More...

We've caught up with this a bit late on but thought its worth posting because we're sure some of you cyclists out there will like this. The team here at wheelhub have been known to like a pint and some music and we've also cycled to pubs which were open last year and closed down this year, which is a shame.

So it was great to find a fellow cyclist, who is also a well known musician (Beautiful South and Housemartins), supporting the good old British Pub by cycling around them and doing gigs. More...

We couldn't believe that rotating spokes could ever be a good thing, but it turns out that in this new technology it is actually a benefit.

Two Dutch Aeronautics engineers who are also keen cyclists have been working on the project, which involves the attachment of a U-shaped rotatable strip to the front of spokes, so that the sides of the U extend around the spoke, while the curved part of the U acts as an aerofoil. The aerofoil is mounted on pivots and rotates automatically depending on air pressure and direction. They say that there are two main benefits to this new technology... More...

If you're old enough, you might remember attaching your Dad's Players cigarette cards to your bike with a clothes peg off the forks, so that the spokes hit it as they went past, making a cool motor sort of noise.

It turns out that a Manchester borough council is planning to trial the use of an updated version of these to help cycle safety. More...

We thought it might be useful to start posting some information from our searches about the most popular wheels for different purposes. This one is about wheels you might use for your road racing where you need both the ability to climb well and to maintain a good speed on the flat.

We've looked at the most common road wheel searches for the key manufacturers. More...

£22,000 for a road bike is what you'd need if you got Formula 1 engineers to custom design one for you. There's only 100 available so you'd better start saving now... More...

Are you the sort of cyclist that likes the challenge of a long ride for charity ? If so, there's a Brussels to London ride, after the 2010 Tour de France, in aid of Right to Play and as a bonus, Mark Cavendish is supporting them with his Addict CX RC to be won in a draw ... More...

Probably a favourite recipe for Brownies, but don't ask how many calories ! The nuts make it less gooey than a standard brownie. If you can't eat nuts, its also nice if a little sticky with the grated peel of a couple of oranges in it instead of the nuts... More...

Good for a bit of protein and carb and they work a bit like that Lembas bread that the elves use, from Lord of the Rings - you feel fuller than you are after you've eaten them. More...

There is no doubt cycling is becoming more popular and particularly more people are discovering that it is a useful and enjoyable way to keep fit.

However, not all cycling clubs are that easy to access, if you don't know that much about how they operate. If you run a cycling club there are a number of things you can do to make sure new members are welcome but the first step is to make sure your club website attracts potential new members.

We've looked at a lot of cycling club websites recently and its obvious there are also a lot of things NOT to do.

As club websites are nearly always looked after by volunteers who have plenty of other things to attend to, we thought we would put together what is hopefully a useful list of do's and dont's. More...