Tour de France riders race bikes that cost many thousands of pounds each, well out of budget for most of us, but you can buy far cheaper models that share many of the same characteristics, and we’ve chosen six of them.Bike brands invest a lot of money and effort in flagship products that get used by … Read more
Wow, Kalf has really impressed us with its new range of products this summer. We loved its bibs, Chevron summer jersey and mitts, scoring all of them highly, and I have to tell you that this, the Flux Transition Wind Proof Jersey, might be the pick of the range. It’s available nationwide via Evans, and it … Read more
Key features: 950g carbon frame Disc brakes and Flat Mount 12mm thru-axles front and rear 32mm tyre clearance Mudguard mounts SAVE Systembar 25.4mm SAVE seatpost First introduced in 2006, Cannondale’s Synapse has been a hugely popular bike with UK cyclists, it even won road.cc’s bike of the year award in 2015, and for 2018 there’s … Read more
Team Sky’s Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas have been reflecting on yesterday’s dramatic Stage 9 of the race that saw the defending champion tighten his grip on the yellow jersey but lose his chief lieutenant in this year’s race crash out – as did one of his chief rivals, Richie Porte.Since Porte departed for BMC Racing … Read more
Shocking footage from Tennessee that was posted to Facebook shows the moment the driver of an SUV rear-ended a cyclist, apparently on purpose.The incident took place on Saturday on Natchez Trace Parkway in Franklin, Tennessee, a location administered by the National Park Service (NPS) and where there is signage highlighting that cyclists are entitled to use the … Read more
Chapeau!’s cheapest bib shorts, the Tempos are a classic looking bit of kit with a simple design to suit their ‘lazy rides and sunny adventures at the weekend’ brief. Are they just a little too simple though to justify a price tag that matches some brands’ mid-to-top-end kit?The thin, shiny regulation black Lycra material has … Read more
A cyclist taking part in last night’s Dunwich Dynamo from London to the Suffolk coast has filmed the moment he and two friends he was riding with crashed when some teens pushed a bike into their path as they rode through Woodford Green.Richard Frazier wrote on Instagram: “We left London Fields last night as a … Read more
The latest video in our Near Miss of the Day series shows a motorcyclist overtaking three cyclists – at a speed thought to be well in excess of 100 miles an hour.It was filmed by Tarik Qirem when he was riding with his wife and a friend near Hullbridge, in Essex.On the narrow country rode, a car … Read more
Rigoberto Uran of Cannondale has won a hugely dramatic Stage 9 of the Tour de France in Chambery on a day when second-placed Geraint Thomas of Team Sky and one of the big favourites for the overall win, BMC Racing’s Richie Porte, both crashed out.The Colombian was awarded the win over Team Sunweb’s Warren Barguil … Read more
As you might have guessed from glancing at the price the Specialized S-Works 6 XC is the company’s all-singing, all-dancing, off-road disco shoe. The next model down their mountain bike chorus line is a full £100 cheaper — the price of a pretty good pair of shoes — so these are perched perilously high up … Read more
