Velo-labelled vin hard to resist

Cafevelo has a weakness for red wine badged with a bicycle...

STRIDA spotted in the South West

Here are some tech specs if you're interested, but cafevelo reckons that you'll be better off with plan B

Chew Valley chow down

JP's with cheese and coleslaw at...



Chew Valley lake

Brewery tap revisited

Is number 1 still the best ale in the rack? Cafevelo's trio of beer buffs returned to Derby's Brewery Tap to find out...



Number 4 pleased one of the judges with its coffee and peat notes, but...



there's no change at the top. It's back-to-back wins for number 1.

Phew.

Clevedon cake stop

In front, date & walnut, and behind, apple. Very nice. Can't say the same about the weather though. Never known it to be so windy (check out the flag).

Photo shoot: Tour of Britain, stage 8

Put some oil on your mouse wheel and give your scrolling finger a stretch. Our super snapper has hit the jackpot, so get ready to enjoy a bumper batch of rider photos from Saturday's Tour of Britain sprint showdown.

Winner on the day, Michelle Merlo


2006 Luxembourg national road race champion, Kim Kirchen (circled) and Russian king of cool, Vladimir Karpets


48 year old former national jersey wearer, Malcolm Elliott, makes his way past the team cars


and then goes on the attack


Breakaway hero, Thomas De Gendt


Italy's Filippo Pozzato (circled) and Tour of Ireland overall winner, Russell Downing


2009 Tour de France stage winner, Brice Feillu


(Left) Irish champ, Nicolas Roche, alongside race leader, Edvald Boasson Hagen


Overall winner in 2008, Geoffroy Lequatre wearing a Union Jack helmet and matching socks(?)


Once again on cafevelo, Rob Hayles (4 appearances in 2009!)


Aussie sprint legend, Graeme Brown


(Left) future GB star and winner of stage 7, Ben Swift, and (right) current British road race champion, Kristian House


2010 Team Sky recruit, Chris Froome

Pirate skyrides around London

Boasson Hagen takes top prize in Tour of Britain

Cafevelo's senior lens man was in central London to capture all of the action from stage 8.


More photos to follow...

Bike shops of the world - Valencia, Spain

Working out the work out - part 1

Take one temperature sensor -


Clip it to your turbo trainer's cooling fin. Pictured, a Phonak-tastic CycleOps Fluid2. Notice how the sophisticated clamping device has been fashioned to resemble a clothes peg - genius.





and measure -



(A) background temperature, (B) warm up (literally!) and (C) first interval session.

The serial buffer maxed out after 250 data-points, but the initial results are promising. Cafevelo reckons that the jewels are buried in the area under the curve.

Any thoughts readers?

Bromptoneering: from store to door

British time trial championships 2009 - part 2

Rob Hayles (Halfords/Bikehut)






Michael Hutchinson (In-Gear Quickvit RT)







Bradley Wiggins (Garmin Slipstream)

British time trial championships 2009 - part 1

Tractors, hay lorries, bonfires and bemused motorists can only mean one thing - the British time trial championships. Closed roads would have been a dream, but British Cycling made the best out of a bad situation and sent vehicles around the circuit to protect the country's finest pedal pushers from the hustle and bustle of village life.

Borrowed camera in hand, cafevelo managed to snap the top riders in action.

Wendy Houvenaghel (Science in Sport)




Emma Pooley (Cervelo)






Chris Newton (Rapha Condor)




Check back on Monday for exclusive photos of Rob Hayles, Michael Hutchinson and Bradley Wiggins.

Results - Womens / Mens

Arduino: let the fun begin!

Cafevelo has got its hands on a microcontroller. Why? You'll just have to wait and see ; ) Want one? Visit oomlout and put an Arduino experimentation kit in your basket. Have fun.

Some pix from the "lab" -






And a video -