The endurance market is incredibly competitive with new technology designed to improve comfort and performance coming along all the time, and here are the best bikes that we tested here on road.cc during 2017.This category covers bikes intended to be ridden fast while providing an extra helping of comfort. Different brands describe them in different ways, usually endurance bikes, sportive bikes or gran fondo … Read more
Café du Cycliste’s Adèle thermal bib shorts are warm and comfortable with an excellent Elastic Interface seatpad, but they’re very expensive. Pros: Warm, high-quality seatpad Cons: High price These shorts are made from a thermal fleece fabric (49% polyamide, 35% polyester, 16% elastomer) that provides plenty of warmth in cold conditions. Worn with leg warmers, … Read more
Mathieu Van Der Poel is currently dominating the cyclocross world cup season, and for 2018 he has switched from Stevens to German brand Canyon, with the company announcing its sponsorship of the Dutchman’s Beobank-Corendon team.And he’s only gone and won his first race aboard the new bike, in a very muddy cyclocross race yesterday. Mudfest … Read more
Broadcaster Jeremy Vine has tweeted a video showing the moment a motorcycle rider whizzed past – while riding on a cycle path.The BBC presenter often posts footage recorded on his bike commutes to the social network – including one that earlier this year helped secure the conviction of a motorist following a road rage incident.> Jeremy … Read more
Police in Wiltshire have appealed for witnesses after a cyclist was discovered dead next to his bicycle on a country road.The 77-year-old was found at around 12.30pm yesterday on Cholderton Road, near Newton Tony, nine miles north east of Salisbury.Despite emergency services attending the scene, he was pronounced dead there.Police, who closed the road for several … Read more
Last summer road.cc and off-road.cc sent a team of crack operatives (well, me, Dave and Jon from off-road.cc) on a road trip to the Italian Dolomites where we rode new bikes at Eurobike Live, tackled the Maratona dles Dolomites gran fondo, did some very fine Italian dining and on our day off me and Dave … Read more
The latest video from Thee Col Collective sees Mike Cotty tackle an ascent that first appeared in the Giro d’Italia in 1990 and is now an eagerly anticipated featu.re of the race whenever it is included – the Passo di Mortirolo.It’s been in the race on 13 occasions, most recently in May this year when Luis Leon … Read more
Footage showing a bike cop in Japan chasing after a Lamborghini Huracan to issue the driver a ticket has gone viral since being posted to YouTube last month.The officer, riding a bike that wouldn’t look out of place on a quick trip to the shops, complete with front basket, leapt into action after the driver apparently ignored … Read more
We’ve reviewed lots of the world’s best superbikes here on road.cc over the past year – cutting-edge bikes with hefty price tags – and now it’s time to count down the very best of them.How do we decide on our list? All bikes must fulfil these criteria:1. It must have been tested on road.cc over … Read more
