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Eurobike faves: the Hope V-Twin hydraulic converter
Like we said, soon you'll have road shifters with hydraulic internals and discs on your road bike. It's the future, though seemingly not the future everyone wants. Anyway, for now the focus is on cyclocross and Jo's first ride on the Kinesis Crosslight Pro 6 was enough to persuade him that actually, he did like discs for CX after all. And he's a proper luddite. You'll be next.
For now, you need a box to convert cable pull into fluid push. There were quite a few on display at Eurobike, but perhaps the prettiest was Hope Technologies' V-Twin, so named (by road.cc readers, not by Hope, although we reckon they'll use it...) because of its resemblance to said engine design. It attaches via a spacer insert, underneath your stem, and all the trickery goes on inside the box so it looks nice and neat. Here's Alan from Hope explaining...
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
Quickstep are announcing final team this afternoon, so not certain yet....
Lock it or loose it!
“the store team followed our policy of not serving cyclists in the Drive-Thru as a safety precaution..."...
Well I'll agree with anyone who points out that much UK infra is not just not trying but is bordering on evidence of misconduct in public office -...
Oh dear. How sad. Nevermind.
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What I find strange is the claim that:...
Best comment on here, although there are several others on here who have been supportive of a woman's right to choose what happens to her own body,...
because that would be a sensible and organised approach to take, and doing things for wholly impractical and backwards reasons in the name of ...