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Check out Vincenzo Nibali’s Tour de France-winning Specialized Tarmac from 2014 – complete with shark paint job

Rim brakes, mechanical shifting, external routing… bikes were very different 10 years ago when Astana’s Nibali took his Tour title

Tue, Jun 18, 2024 20:45

2024 JonnyMole Dream Machine 2.5 – 1 (4)

Dream or nightmare? JonnyMole’s Dream Machine 2.5 is a gravel bike… but not as we know it

Concept bike which comes with two top tubes and two down tubes “to seamlessly integrate bags and luggage”, an integrated saddle, and a cantilever seatpost to smooth the ride

Tue, Jun 04, 2024 20:45

Check out the Colnago C59 Disc – the beginning of the end for rim brakes

Travel back to a time when disc brakes on performance road bikes were radical, and Colnago was pioneering the new technology

Tue, May 28, 2024 20:45

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Cannondale’s SystemSix: can what was billed as “the world’s fastest road bike” still cut it?

Coming with some big aero claims when it was launched back in 2018, Cannondale’s first aero road bike is well overdue an update

Tue, May 07, 2024 20:45

Bike at Bedtime Gramophone bike May 2024

Who needs on-bike headphones when you’ve got… a gramophone horn? Behold this custom Airnimal Joey with a musical twist

Ian Ashmeade's impressive self-built addition to his bike brings music to the lanes of Cambridgeshire via a gramophone horn he bought for a tenner

Sun, May 05, 2024 20:44

What happened to the Rotor Uno groupset with hydraulic shifting?

Was this unusual groupset ahead of its time or was it always destined for obscurity? Take a look at some of the most unusual components of the past decade…

Tue, Apr 30, 2024 20:45

Bike at Bedtime – Trek Carbon District April 2024

Is the District Carbon Trek’s strangest-ever road bike… or even its coolest?

A belt-drive single-speed with a dropped handlebar, the District Carbon was an interesting concept… but it didn’t stick around for long

Tue, Apr 23, 2024 20:45

Check out the 2014 GT Grade, the first purpose-built carbon gravel bike – complete with 28mm tyres!

Find out why this bike was so important in the gravel market, and how tech has changed over the past decade

Tue, Apr 16, 2024 20:45

How does that work?!? Check out the chainless NuBike

"Faster, simpler and safer", claimed the inventor, so how come NuBike never took off?

Tue, Apr 09, 2024 20:45

Check out the Colnago C40 Gold Limited Edition

Ridden to Paris-Roubaix victory in 1995, the C40 was one of the key bikes in the rise of carbon fibre – both in the pro peloton and beyond. Take a look at this very special version from 2000…

Tue, Apr 02, 2024 20:45