Many cycling fans know Laurent Brochard for one reason and one reason only. Despite a long and successful career, fans can often recall Brochard in the peloton by pointing to one very distinctive element of his appearance. Those most distinctive visual elements in all of professional cycling: The rainbow stripes of World Champion on the [...]

Bit late and a bit out of the Daily Crank’s sphere, but impressive to watch! New Zealand BMXer Jed Mildon has created action-sports history by landing the world’s first Triple Backflip at the Unit T3 Mindtricks BMX Jam in Taupo, New Zealand. Mildon, 24, stomped the three rotations perfectly during the free-to-the-public BMX show in [...]

Ever since I picked up and read Mark Beaumont’s book, The Man Who Cycled The World, it’s opened up the world of adventure bike touring and rekindled the semi crazy ideas I’ve had of taking some time off to tour a few countries on two wheels. I’ve also started paying attention to the various world [...]

I was sent a lovely animation bringing my attention to Kayden Kleinhans and The Global Wheeling Foundation. The Global Wheeling Foundation is a South African based Non Profit Organisation and has some amazing initiatives up and running, including Bums On Bikes and Recycle A Bike. Set up by South African Kayden Kleinhans, his latest challenge [...]

The season finale of The Atherton Project sees Gee, with his World Cup win under his belt, heading to Utah for the mother of all freeride events: Red Bull Rampage. On the road, Gee and the team stop off at a gun range to let off some steam, and a few AK-47 rounds! Then it’s on to Red Bull Rampage. [...]

I took part in my first Catford Cycling Club Hill Climb on Sunday. What a fantastic and awesome vibe! Here’s some background and pictures from the day. I recommend entering it, it’s not as bad as everyone makes it out to be…it’s an awesome buzz and the anticipation of waiting in line at the start [...]

I love reading. I’m looking turn half of my garage into a bike workshop and the other half into a library. I’m actually about to invest in an Amazon Kindle so that I can stop putting a dent into the Amazon rainforest. See what I did there? I’m not sure either. Anyway…here of 5 of [...]

I’ve come across a rather noble and fun initiative called Unite Bike. What is Unite Bike I hear you ask? Well, let me just cut and paste a quote in here to enlighten you. The idea behind Unite Bike is simple. It is about promoting and supporting a community of individual people who make the [...]

These 2 have a knack of making me very jealous, they seem to be just one step ahead of me in their adventures. Just as I was about to set off to row across the Atlantic on a Wednesday, they set off on the Tuesday and scuppered my plans. When I wanted to enter the [...]

If you ride a mountain bike regularly, you’ve probably thought about entering a race at some stage. Well, why not go straight to the top of the tree, up the crazy meter from ‘sounds hard’ to ‘are you freaking mental’. Put your balls reputation on the line and enter one the rides below. La Ruta [...]

And you thought there wasn’t any link between cycling and the 2010 Football World Cup! See what I’ve done there? Well, in the spirit of this year’s biggest sporting event, and in order to give something to waste your time on this Friday before it kicks off, I bring you some of the best bicycle [...]