Cotic’s new Cascade, built with a Reynolds 853 main frame, is a rugged and versatile adventure bike that’s suited to multi-day off-road epics and equally happy to bomb around the woods or explore the local bridleways. Here are our initial impressions ahead of the full review that we’ll publish soon. 2022 Cotic Cascade (Image Credit: Farrelly … Read more
Cotic has unveiled a new drop-bar adventure bike called the Cascade, made with butted Reynolds 853 steel main tubes and designed for everything from fast gravel rides to heading off into the back of beyond for days on end.2022 Cotic Cascade – 2 (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)“The Cascade is… a gravel bike, drop-bar dirt bike, … Read more
Dolan’s updated Ares road bike came out last year and was approved for competition use by the UCI in November and, unusually in these times of supply chain struggles, it can be built up with Shimano’s new Ultegra or Dura-Ace Di2 groupsets – or various other component options – and quickly despatched to you. You … Read more
The L-Bow FL1 Front Bike Light is well priced, innovative in its design, and has decent run-times. However, there are some design elements that could be improved, such as the deep screw holes at the front and the lack of washers on the handlebar mount.This is the first L-Bow product I have come across and it … Read more
A 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of drugs after a cyclist in his 60s was killed in Leicestershire. The incident took place around 10am on Sunday on the Coventry Road in Sapcote, close to the Sharnford Road junction. An Audi Q5 vehicle ended up on its side in a … Read more
Safer Transport Team officers in Hackney fined 18 cyclists in the space of 90 minutes for jumping red lights at the weekend.The Metropolitan Police Service’s Roads and Transport Policing Command tweeted that 14 officers in hi vis jackets patrolled the Hackney Road junction with Kingsland Road on Saturday evening. They were there as part of … Read more
The Teravail Rampart is a chirpy but rugged road tyre designed for tarmac, in whatever decrepit form that may be, and for light gravel duties – ‘groad’, if you will. You’ll get the best out of them if you run them tubeless.The Rampart comes in an array of sizes to suit your wheel, bike and … Read more
Tony Pearce, a former chairman of Trowbridge Town Council, has criticised the installation of a new £480,000 cycleway and footpath scheme in the town, describing the plans as a “vanity project, worthy of a bearded, sandal-wearing, nut-munching, eco-mentalist.”The work on the Hilperton Road will replace a temporary cycle lane that was installed during the pandemic … Read more
Jeremy Vine has been accused of ‘bias’ after the Radio 2 presenter posted a video on his Twitter account which showed a private hire taxi driver throwing a glass bottle at a cyclist following an altercation.In the video, which was shot yesterday, a cyclist can be seen arguing with a driver while the pair are … Read more
Tick tick tick tick tick…Every time I leave the house on a bike, I press ’Start’ on the mental stopwatch. It doesn’t matter which bike I’m on; road, gravel, mountain, cyclo-cross or town hack, that second hand begins its sweep as soon as I click in my second foot.Whether it’s a trip to the shops … Read more
