News-sites and online publications
Mountain bike news, reader-submitted reviews, tons of ads and a bulletin board. |
A daily-updated website - with forum - about road race bikes. It's from the small stable as mountain bike site BikeMagic.com and SheCycles.com, a site for women cyclists. |
Bicycle Retailer And Industry News (known to its friends as BRAIN); is the big, fat American trade magazine. The website contains daily trade news and an often-entertaining daily quote. |
Want to know the very latest news on the European major Tours such as the Tour de France, the Vuelta of Spain or the Giro in Italy? This site, despite being based in Australia, usually carries the first news and results. And it's not just for the grand tours, there are results on here from an obscure road race in Mongolia through to amateur events in deepest, darkest Scotland. There are also online diaries from top pro riders, equipment reviews, and a bristling letters page. |
It may not be kept as up-to-date as other cycling websites but when a major story breaks, BBC.co.uk covers it very well. The cyclesport section is also packed with indepth features, including info for newcomers to cycle sport. |
BikeBiz.com is a UK-based trade website with daily news. There's a trade-only forum, where British bike shop owners and cycle suppliers like to chew the fat, and a public-access front-end with a meaty statistics section, and job ads. |
British mountain bike news-and-views site with a very active bulletin board. |
Velo Vision is the now-and-again updated site accompanying Velo Vision magazine of York. This is a magazine majoring on "alternatives" in cycling, such as recumbents, trailers, folding bikes, pedal-powered boats and the like. The magazine is sold all over the world. |
US-based BMX site by the producers of Ride BMX magazine. |
Netherlands-based Bike Europe magazine is an English-language trade magazine for the bicycle and scooter markets in Europe. The website has regular news and is hot on so-called 'dumping' issues ie EU Commission investigations against Chinese companies 'dumping' cheap bicycles on to the world market. |
Writer Scott Munn thinks that reading about bikes should be fun. His site is an eclectic mix of stories harvested from magazines and the net, with sections on humour, essays, and travel. Features an implausible but entertaining glossary of cycling terms. |
A Netherlands-based BMX fanzine and news source. |
US and worldwide recumbent news. |






