Filled with fluid, pistons, and seals, your bike’s brakes are pretty complicated things, and like everything, they’ll need servicing every once in a while, especially as they’re vital safety components. Your brake servicing routine should require more than your usual brake bleed, so here are some things you can do to freshen up your brakes’ … Read more
Dozens of cyclists have gathered in Liverpool City Centre to protest the incoming ban on all non-folding e-bikes on Merseyrail trains.The ban, first announced in July and coming into effect in January, means only standard pedal cycles, folding e-bikes and approved mobility scooters and aids will be permitted on the operator’s fleet of trains, serving … Read more
The best flat-pedal shoes combine off-bike convenience and comfort with on-bike power transfer. We’ve thrashed round town, sessioned the singletrack and generally strolled about to find out which flat-pedal shoes work best on and off the bike. These are our favourites. Best overall: Endura Hummvee Flat Pedal Shoe – Buy Now for £45 from Endura … Read more
The Thule InLock Universal Panel is a decent stab at a rattle-free, quick-release means of mounting panniers. With no significant mounting componentry on the panniers themselves, they can be quickly taken off a bike and carried around like normal bags.Thule offers traditional pannier bags, backpack bags and attaché-style briefcase bags, all of which can be … Read more
What do you get if you cross an aircraft engineer, some aluminium tubing, some truck tyre levers and your family’s Aga? The world’s first genuinely portable folding bicycle. 1974 Bickerton Portable full bike (Image Credit: Bickerton Portables) This is the story of the original Bickerton Portable, the light bike that appeared in the early 1970s … Read more
The Thule Shield Pannier 22L is a lightweight, waterproof roll-top bag. It requires the matching £25 Thule InLock Universal Panel to fit to your bike, but once that’s installed it can be fit and removed in seconds with no faff.The Shield Pannier is built to the quality you’d expect from Thule. The materials and fittings … Read more
If Avona, Schwalbe and Newmen wanted a quiet Sea Otter weekend, they shouldn’t have sent gravel racer, Leon Kaiser, to the UCI’s elite men’s race in Girona. The German secured a first gravel win for 32-inch wheels on European soil in a four-up sprint finish.Kaiser’s setup featured a host of new products, with his bike … Read more
The Redshift Sports Mousetrap Pedal Adaptors make your SPD pedals any shoe – or even bare feet – friendly in seconds, with no tools. Just as quickly removable, they clip together and pop into a bag or pocket if you’re worried about theft. Put simply, they are genius.Since the advent of SPD pedals there has … Read more
British brand Hope has teased a range of upgrade options for Brompton’s G-Line folding bikes, allowing riders plenty of opportunity to accessorise. Despite beginning life as a somewhat odd folding bike with amusingly small wheels, Brompton has become a fashionable must-have for the cycling city commuter. It’s therefore unsurprising that Brompton owners should want to accessorise … Read more
