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Check out the Mercian tandem that Greg James will ride 1,000km for Comic Relief

The BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host is coming out of "challenge retirement" to ride from Weymouth to Edinburgh in the lead up to Red Nose Day, and here’s the Derby-built tandem he’ll be doing it on

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Mason Bokeh turns 10: the fast, do-it-all bike that refuses to be just ‘gravel’

Built to be fast across multiple surfaces, the Mason Bokeh has evolved over the past decade without losing its original spirit – and earned a devoted following along the way

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A beautiful Colnago track bike built to Eddy Merckx’s 1972 Hour Record dimensions

While Tadej Pogačar's Tour-winning Y1Rs selling for almost $200,000 made the big headlines this week, this restored Colnago also went under the hammer

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“The first high-performance wooden gravel bike”: check out the Ornus Grain

Wood you believe it? Italian brand blends nature and technology on new model that’s designed for speed

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The bike that went to jail: Sofiane Sehili’s Bombtrack Hook EXT Ti from his Eurasian record bid

Ultra-endurance rider Sofiane Sehili’s latest adventure included forests, barbed wire, and a spell in a Russian jail – but he and his gravel bike eventually made it home unscathed. Here’s the full lowdown on the machine behind his record-breaking ambition

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Check out Trek’s new Checkpoint ALR bikes: “big gravel capability at an affordable price”

The third-generation Trek Checkpoint ALR brings key features from its carbon sibling to a more accessible aluminium frame – with bigger tyre clearance, a tweaked geometry, and adventure-ready versatility

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Behold the Bowden Spacelander, the craziest-looking bike ever

From its dazzling debut in post-war Britain to its cult status as a collector’s dream, this is a bike that dared to be different

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Check out the original Boris Bike

It’s 15 years since London introduced its public bike-sharing scheme, so let’s take a look back at a classic

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Check out “the world’s first truly aero-optimised titanium race machine”

3D printed No.22 Bicycle Company Reactor Aero is likely to set you back between £7,500 and £11,300 when it launches later in the year – and that’s just the frameset

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Will the radical Morpheus Reppit change the direction of aero road bike design?

Morpheus Bicycles introduces an aero road bike with a huge stack height aimed at increasing your speed by mimicking a time trial ride position

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