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Features

Interview: Team Madison Genesis' Chris Snook

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Chris Snook of Madison Genesis

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Chris Snook Madison Genesis

Chris Snook of new UK outfit Madison Genesis has just been racing the likes of Bradley Wiggins, Tyler Farrar, Alejandro Valverde and Tony Martin in Challenge Mallorca, but he’ll be back in the office catching up with emails on Monday morning. How does he manage to combine racing at a high level with holding down a fulltime job? We caught up with him at his team training camp on Mallorca after the race to find out.

Dom Mason of Kinesis: Aluminium road bikes are here to stay

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Interview: Dom Mason of Kinesis

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Dom Mason - Upgrade Bikes

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Dom Mason - Kinesis

Look at a lot of bike ranges these days and you’d think that carbon is the only material out there for decent-level bikes, but Kinesis UK’s Dom Mason reckons there’s plenty of scope left for quality metal frames.

road.cc's tips for riding on ice and snow

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Riding on ice and snow

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Before you set off…

Maximise your contact patch. Road bike tyres have a larger contact patch on the road than a more knobbly mountain bike tyre, and you can maximise that precious contact further by fitting a wider tyre, and/or not running it at quite such a high pressure. That said, in snow or looser conditions a treaded tyre or even a lightly knobbed MTB or cyclocross tyre will give extra grip.

The disc brake revolution is coming + industry insider comment

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Disc brakes revolution

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In our 2013 cycling trends and predictions article, one of the recurring predictions is the one about disc brakes on road bikes. It's a controversial subject; since the UCI gave the go ahead for disc brakes on cyclocross bikes, many have been asking when discs are coming to road bikes. And the answer is very soon.

road.cc's top products of 2012

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25 best products of 2012

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2012 has been a busy year, and road.cc has reviewed more products than ever before. Our team is out riding all year round in all weathers, logging thousand of miles to put the latest products through a thorough test.

There have been some really excellent products this year, and here are the ones that top scored across a wide variety of categories, we've selected our pick of the year to reflect the wide range of cycing we try to cover - so there should be something of interest no matter what type of road riding you do.

10 of the best training apps

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Top 10 smartphone apps

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10 of the best training apps

With more and more people buying smartphones and the proliferation of training apps now available for them, it’s never been so easy to accurately keep track of your training. Gone are the days when you kept track of your training in a notepad, with careful handwritten notes.

The latest generation of training apps makes it far easier to record and analyse your training, as well as setting goals and targets and reviewing previous performances. We’ve chosen 10 of the most popular apps so you can kick start 2013 with a digital thump.

Top 10 affordable upgrades for your bike

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10 top bike upgrades

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Top 10 affordable upgrades for your bike

If you’re looking to add a dash of personalisation to your bike, here are 10 products that will be sure to make your bike stand out on the club run. And best of all, these are all affordable upgrades.

Coloured headset spacers

Christmas gifts for cycling bookworms

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Christmas books 2012

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Christmas Books 2012

Cycling books are always a delight to unwrap on Christmas morning, or to treat yourself to at any time of year, and the growth of interest in cycling as well as the success of British riders means that bookstore shelves – plus those in the warehouses of online retailers – are groaning under the weight of them as never before.

10 products to increase your motivation this winter

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Top motivation boosting products

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Ten products to get you through the winter 2

We know the winter can be tough on your motivation. It can be cold, dark and wet - it all just makes the sofa far too inviting. In fact, anything can seem like a better idea than going out on the bike. It’s surprisingly easy to talk yourself out of going for a ride, isn’t it?

That’s why we’ve rounded up 10 products that we reckon will help you get stuck in, when you’d tempted to get stuck into the mince pies instead.

Custom built frames: The choice, from steel to carbon

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Custom built frames

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Handbuilt bikes

Not all that long ago, most road bikes were custom built to order by your local frame builder. Times have changed and today most are produced on a mass scale in the Far East where advances in manufacturing and production processes have seen all types of road bikes become both more affordable and more technologically advanced than ever before.