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Pivot Vault gravel bike first-ride review: Elegantly simple, buttery smooth
Bike companies have been coming out with all sorts of mechanical devices to improve rider comfort on gravel bikes: Cannondale recently introduced Kingpin on its new Topstone Carbon, Specialized...
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Scott Addict RC 2020 first-ride review: Now aero’ized
It was 2007 when Scott first revealed its 790g ultra-light Addict platform. With it, Scott set a new benchmark for light and stiff racing frames, and a number of competitors spent years trying (with...
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JRA with the Angry Asian: Celebrating silly products
Koo — the eyewear-focused sister company of Italian helmet brand Kask — recently released a novel little widget called the Billy. This bit of plastic attaches to your stem or handlebar, and serves as a...
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The Darren by Baum: An adjustable bike for finding the ideal gravel geometry
In the following article we take a look at the unique frame that Darren Baum built as part of his research and development on gravel bike design. “The Darren” has an adjustable head angle, bottom...
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2020 Cannondale SuperSix Evo first-ride review: Now with a dose of aero
Cannondale’s venerable SuperSix Evo has always been cherished for its low weight and high stiffness — the perfect combo for climbers and traditionalists that prize a snappy feel. The new...
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The 2020 Specialized Shiv TT Disc is finally official
It’s a bike we’ve spotted on and off over the past few months. Deceuninck–Quick-Step’s Yves Lampaert won the time trial at the Tour de Suisse on it, and it has also collected three national time trial...
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Giant revives the Cadex name, but not as you’d expect
It was 1987 when Giant first unveiled the Cadex, arguably the world’s first carbon fibre road bike to be made on a mass scale. Now some 32 years later, Giant is bringing the Cadex name back, and this...
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Photo gallery: Adam Yates’ Mitchelton-Scott Scott Addict RC
The Tour de France isn’t only a race fought between riders; on the equipment side, every bike supplier also uses the event as a showcase for its flagship machines, and they’re often resplendent in...
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Tubeless tires gaining ground in road and TT stages at the Tour de France
Fans of tubeless road tires have been eagerly awaiting the adoption of the technology at the upper echelon of the sport, and only recently have there been glimmers of hope. Those fires will burn a...
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Photo gallery: The fastest (and slowest) 2019 Tour de France time trial tech
Sunday’s team trial wasn’t very technical, and mostly flat, which meant that everything was geared toward all-out speed — quite literally, in fact. The average speed of the winning team was a whopping...
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Wahoo acquires The Sufferfest training platform
Supported by The Sufferfest has come a long way from its early days of offering basic ride-along videos to become one of the most loyally followed indoor training platforms for cyclists and...
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Pro bike: Peter Sagan’s Specialized S-Works Venge
Aside from day one of this year’s Tour de France, Peter Sagan hasn’t worn his standard team kit since 2011 — and even after the first stage, he immediately traded his Bora-Hansgrohe jersey for the...
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Pro bike: Rohan Dennis’ Merida Scultura Team-E — the outlier
Amongst a modern backdrop of ultra-aero megabikes with integrated and airfoil-shaped everything, and pseudo-aero “all rounder” bikes that are slightly lighter — but just as “system engineered” as their...
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BMC Unrestricted URS 2020 first-ride review: Gravel bike or MTB?
It wasn’t long ago that we thought of gravel as a fringe discipline of road cycling, a discipline where niche brands like Salsa Cycles had a near monopoly. Now you’ll be hard pressed to find a single...
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Giant Contend 2020 entry-level road range: Overhauled and more versatile
While top-tier bikes are becoming more expensive, the opposite end of the spectrum offers surprisingly good bikes for not a lot of money. Case in point, the overhauled 2020 Giant Contend SL Disc and...
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Team Ineos swaps to Lightweights for climbing stages
Team Ineos of the marginal gains thinks it’s found another one: At least ten (that we spotted) sets of $4,000 Lightweight Meilenstein Obermeyer wheels, pulled out of the mechanic’s truck out whenever...
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Video: Bikes of the 2019 Tour de France, part one
At the Tour de France, the devil is in the mechanical detail – the custom parts and personal preferences of the riders, the 3D printed TT bars, and the sheer labour involved in the new era of road bike...
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Canyon unveils 5.95kg disc road model, the Ultimate CF Evo Disc
German-based Canyon Bicycles has unveiled its lightest disc-brake road model to date, the Ultimate CF Evo Disc. It’s a bike made for the mountains — feather-light for climbing, and equipped with disc...
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Strava and Relive are partners no more
Supported by Life has become much more complicated for Relive, the popular third-party app that lets you replay your rides in glorious 3-D detail using the power of Google Earth, as well as for the...
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Photo gallery: The best shoes of the 2019 Tour de France
Ah, shoes. In a sport that so often controls exactly how and what pros ride in, shoes (and sometimes eyewear…) are often the last frontier for individuality. Sure, some teams enforce the use of a...
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