British wheel maker Parcours and Belgian tech company Classified have announced a partnership, which will allow consumers to buy Parcours road and gravel wheels with Classified Powershift technology. Best gravel wheelsets 2023 – fast and furious off-road wheels The best trail and enduro mountain bike wheelsets, tried and tested Parcours Alta gravel wheelset review Parcours, … Read more
[Words by by Steve Thomas]The tall and gangly figure of Bart Brentjens in full flight had a threatening stance, especially if you were a race-track rival. More often than not, he delivered on that threat with resounding force – and none more so than when he took the first-ever men’s cross-country mountain bike Olympic title … Read more
Peter Sagan is a household name in the world of road cycling having won an incredible 121 races in his 12 years as a pro but he’s always been a mountain biker at heart. Sagan won the world junior title in mountain biking at age 18 in 2008 before making the switch to road racing. He participated in the 2016 … Read more
This week we have yet another five very cool things to show you and this time around, it’s very bike-heavy. In for testing, we’ve got two e-bikes from direct-sales giants YT Industries and Canyon. Those are joined by a suspension-clad Vitus gravel bike and there’s a luggage rack from SEIDO. Rounding off the trickest kit is … Read more
Katy Curd, the rider best known for her National Downhill success, and seven World Cup podiums has launched her Youth Development Team. With this, the rider aims to bring her wealth of racing know-how to the table to develop the skills of three young riders to hopefully achieve similar success in enduro and downhill events. … Read more
Wolf Tooth’s new Resolve dropper post brings some interesting innovation to the dropper post game. Its world-first self-bleeding cartridge along with its lowest-on-the-market stack height will appeal to even the pickiest of dropper post connoisseurs, making it a seriously attractive addition to the best dropper posts segment. And for the features on offer, it’s competitively … Read more
Back in 2010 the first of 18 issues of Privateer magazine appeared. Introduced at a time when Rouleur magazine was still associated with Rapha, it gave off-roading the same sort of mature treatment as Rouleur gave to road cycling. Reading ‘Off-Road Heroes’ reminded me of Privateer, and if Privateer had produced a book, it would … Read more
Known for its exquisite and hardy steel-framed mountain bikes, British-based company Ragley has turned its hand to the burgeoning gravel bike market and distilled its off-road knowledge into the drop-bar bike pictured here. The result is the Ragely Trig – a mountain bike-inspired gravel bike built around the 650b wheel standard. Best multitools for mountain … Read more
A strong paddock rumour has finally come to fruition as Lapierre has relaunched its international cross-country mountain biking team. Joining forces with Mavic, the Lapierre Mavic Unity Team will be racing at the highest level and boasts quite the roster. What is downcountry? 10 worst bits of mountain bike riding advice I’ve been given by randoms The … Read more
Getting yourself one of the best mountain bikes has just been made easier as Canyon, the German bicycle brand, has introduced permanent price reductions to numerous bike models, including the Spectral mountain bike and Grail gravel bike. Your complete guide to the Canyon mountain bike range Gravel bike vs mountain bike: what are the differences? … Read more
