Category: News

Just as the famous roulette wheels of Las Vegas may produce unexpected results from time to time, we’ve had some rather unexpected news. Inspired by LVIS and its history, one of the places mentioned has been in touch offering 15 LVIS members an expenses paid trip to our spiritual home to take part in one…

    LVIS doesn’t do run of the mill… 2013: Subzero temperatures, icicles on bottom brackets 2014: Sunshine, sunburn, dehydration 2015: Howling wind and torrential rain Despite the forecasts the whole week leading up to the LVIS Audax predicting weather better suited to staying indoors, the turnout for the event was still excellent. Better still,…

Barry’s love of the fairer sex and associated weapons of mass distraction is well documented…. So it should come as no surprise that his ghost fully endorses a charity that focuses on kicking seven bells out of a particularly unpleasant illness… During a recent and particularly addled séance Barry called upon the Vegas brethren to…

Here’s to a very Happy Christmas and a very Vegas new year to you all! Go Vegas 2015!

Full details and entry for the world’s best cakefest/audax will follow from 1st January 2015 on the LVIS Audax website: audax.lvis.org.uk/  

  You’ve voted and now, the stretch of National Cycle Network that will be forever now known as the LVIS Mile is….. Hill Lane! A clear favourite and for good reason as this narrow, high sided lane has hosted many a head down sprint towards the legendary Hill Village Hall, home to the finest spread of cake…

A quick write up of John and Dom’s trip to the Alps   Just back from a long weekend in the Chamonix Valley with Dom and our better halves. It seems that they have substantially bigger mountains than we do, some of which are eminently suitable for riding bikes down. They also have a rather…

With the huge success that was the Giro in Ireland recently behind them, the organisers of the Lap the Lough took the unprecedented step of ensuring a day without rain for the 2014 Lap. Riders unused to dry roads all day didn’t quite know what to do with themselves and didn’t crash or have to…

A few pics of Helen and Nathan spreading the LVIS word to France this summer.

Dan was in Italy to take part in the Novecolli Gran Fondo: Hi all, back last night from my bike race in Italy, Novecolli 2014 (Nine Hills). The most popular Gran Fondo in Italy, it was fantastic!! The race started on Sunday morning 18/5 at 6am in Cesenatico, a small seaside town on the east…