It’s one of the most unusual looking products ever to pass through the road.cc office, but get past its radical appearance and the Lauf Grit fork offers some useful bump-absorbing benefits for off-road gravel riding. There are limitations to the design, though, and it’s not cheap.Lauf is an Icelandic company and came up with its … Read more
The Tour de France gets underway this weekend, and while most people’s attention will be on the contenders for the yellow jersey, the road.cc tech team are more interested in what new bikes and equipment will be on show. The race is commonly used to debut new products, and it looks like Specialized might have something … Read more
Mark Cavendish will start the Tour de France on Saturday after being named in a Team Dimension Data line-up that includes new British road and time trial champion Steve Cummings and Yorkshire’s Scott Thwaites, who makes his debut in the race.The three Britons will be joined by Edvald Boasson Hagen, Bernard Eisel, Serge Pauwels, Mark Renshaw, … Read more
A Warwickshire man who set himself a series of cycling challenges after twice beating cancer has broken the Guinness World Record for the greatest distance cycled in seven days.James Golding, aged 36 and from Rugby, had to contend with the hottest June day in more than four decades as well as strong winds on his … Read more
Today’s submission to our Near Miss of the Day feature is from a few years back, but is described by the rider involved, who comes close to being crushed between a lorry and a wall, as “probably the worst incident I have endured in well over 100,000 miles on the roads over the years.”Nik Heathman of … Read more
Some bib shorts just feel right from the moment you pull them on – and that’s the feeling I got with the Endura M90 Graphics bib shorts I’ve been testing since spring. Luckily, that feeling stayed with me right through the test.It wasn’t love at first sight, though. They arrived with the matching M90 Graphics … Read more
“Build the best alloy road bike” was the goal for Specialized in updating the Allez, the entry-level aluminium model in its large road bike range. What it has achieved is an E5 aluminium frame and all-carbon fork that chops some 450g off the previous frameset weight, packaged up with a more relaxed geometry and the … Read more
A Scottish woman who is riding around the world on her own has been mugged in Brazil.Ishbel Taromsari , who blogs as World Bike Girl, was unhurt in the incident but her camera equipment was stolen, reports the Glasgow Evening Times.The 36-year-old, who comes from near Falkirk, posted a video to Facebook in which she related … Read more
German prosecutors are investigating a teenage boy who is believed to have shot plastic bullets at the King of Thailand as he was cycling.Earlier in June, the King was cycling in Landshut, Bavaria, in southern Germany when his group was targeted by two boys, aged 13 and 14, shooting an airsoft BB gun from a … Read more
The Santini Photon 3.0 3/4 jersey is a close-fitting lightweight jersey with a high level of breathability and three-quarter length sleeves that are designed to improve aerodynamic efficiency. If those three-quarter sleeves don’t do it for you, the same jersey is available with short sleeves.First of all, those three-quarter length sleeves. They’re designed ‘for a … Read more
