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Features

Spring cycle clothing guide

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Dress for spring

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Ride Aquazero arm warmers

It might have been a slow start, but it looks and feels like spring is really in the air now. The weather is starting to get niver with increasing temperatures and the longer evenings meaning more ride time for a lot of people, and it’s worth making sure you’re prepared with the right clothing.

Dangerous Liegeons

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It’s Belgium, but not that one.

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Ridley-Bastogne-Liege - Ridley Belgium

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I’m stood on top of a hill, the sleety rain is coming in sideways, again, Jupiler beer is flowing freely, black-yellow-red flags snap damply in the wind and the same pattern is painted on the tarmac and people’s cheeks, but only where it hasn’t been washed off by the days regular showers, in both cases, the Bold Rooster is more common than the Flanders Lion, and I’ve just been given a drunken hug by Philippe Gilbert’s god-daughter, she’s even shown me her ID card to show they share the same surname and confirm some sort of provenance.

road.cc's Spring Cycling Guide

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Spring cycling guide

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Credit Paul Stewart

The clocks go forward this weekend, marking the start of British Summer Time, although it doesn’t feel like there’s much of a change in the air at the time of writing with most of Europe is embraced in a cold snap.

Anyway, we’re a positive bunch here at road.cc and we know that milder weather is just around the corner. Trust us. So with the clocks going forward and all that extra daylight, there’s more riding time which should help top up flagging motivation levels no end.

Gent Wevelgem: War without tears

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War Without Tears

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Menin Gate 3

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Gent-Wevelgem War without tears - all pics Owen Rogers

As you head out of Ypres towards Menen, stop and look at the inside of the gate. There are 54,896 names inscribed there, each a Commonwealth soldier whose body was never found or identified after World War One. There wasn’t enough room to fit all the names, so the remainder are elsewhere.

Cotswold Cycling Breaks

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Cotswold Cycling Breaks

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General Lord Edward Somerset was an important man. One of Wellington’s favourite Generals, he even managed to combine his military career with one as an MP. Those talents, maybe aided by his family heritage, earned him a monument which you can visit near the family home at Badminton, high on the Cotswold Edge at Hawkesbury Upton. The highest part of our day’s ride.

Inside Time

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Inside Time

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Finished frames

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Time visit 2013

Reels of thread are spinning around one another in a miniature maypole dance. Follow the threads along and you see that what’s chugging off the top of the pole, millimetre by millimetre, is one continuous tube of carbon fibre, flattened through a couple of rollers. This is one of the things that makes a Time frame different.

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.