The Clemént X’Plor MSO Tubeless Folding Adventure Tyre is an excellent tubeless-ready choice for venturing off the beaten track, at speed. At £60 RRP in its tubeless-ready guise it’s not cheap, but you definitely get what you pay for.Clément Tyres is a historic French brand going back to the late 1800s, with a world-class pedigree … Read more
Mavic’s Tour de France neutral service bikes are fitted with dropper seatposts for the first time in this year’s race to allow riders to adjust their position more quickly and easily.A neutral service bike is available to a rider when he suffers a mechanical problem and one of his own team’s support vehicles can’t get … Read more
ITV4 is providing full coverage of this year’s Tour de France, and will have a new pundit on board for the rest of the race, Philippa York. You may not have heard of her, but she’s won more stages of cycling’s biggest race than you ever will, and is also the first Briton to have … Read more
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected an appeal from the management company of the Bora-Hansgrohe team and Peter Sagan against the world champion’s disqualification from the Tour de France.The Slovak rider was thrown off the race after he was adjudged to have endangered other riders, including Dimension Data’s Mark Cavendish who sustained a … Read more
Quick-Step’s German sprinter Marcel Kittel became the first rider to win a stage of the Tour de France on a bike equipped with disc brakes earlier in the week and now he’s added a second. Here’s the Specialized S-Works Venge ViAS Disc in question.Check out our review of the Venge ViAS Expert Disc here. The Venge is Specialized’s … Read more
Marcel Kittel of Quick Step Floors has won Stage 6 of the Tour de France in Troyes this afternoon, beating French national champion Arnaud Demare of FDJ to the line in a sprint that thankfully lacked the crashes that marred Tuesday’s fourth stage of the race.It’s the German’s eleventh career stage victory, and one that … Read more
Giro claim a size 42.5 shoe comes in at less than 150g, which is lighter than any road shoe we’ve come across, or even the vast majority of lightweight running shoes for that matter. The only thing we’ve found that could possibly be lighter are Rocket7’s shoes that Greg Van Avermaet wears: and these are highly custom, made in the USA only and … Read more
Q36.5 Plus You Socks are supposed to be luxury winter shoe-liners, but they’re very comfortable in warm weather too and if you need to wear the same socks for several days at a time, they resist getting whiffy.The Q36.5 Plus You Socks are described as an ‘avant-garde winter sock constructed with superior natural thermic merino … Read more
Peter Sagan’s Bora-Hanssgrohe team have appealed his disqualification from the Tour de France to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in an unprecedented move that they believe could even see the world champion return to the race should it prove successful.The Slovak rider was thrown off the race on Tuesday evening after the race … Read more
What is it? It might seem self-explanatory, but the app version of the 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs book by Simon Warren really brings this list to life. It not only lists the climbs and gives information that you’d find in the book, but it also uses your phone’s GPS to locate them.Cycling app of the … Read more
