The Selle San Marco Concor Supercomfort Racing Saddle brings together a retro look with the comfort and tech innovations of a modern design to create one strong performing package.I initially thought the saddle was a throwback to more vintage designs, but it throws in some modern features that help bring it into the 21st century, such as a … Read more
Here’s a video that will make you wince – a group of mountain bikers in Spain who were attacked by a swarm of bees. Just looking at the footage is painful, and we reckon the fact that two of the riders dumped their bikes altogether shows how intense it was.The incident happened in March during the … Read more
Silvan Dillier of BMC Racing has won Stage 6 of the 100th Giro d’Italia in Terme Luigiane as the race hit the Italian mainland. The 26-year-old Swiss rider came round Trek-Segafredo’s Jasper Stuyven in the final charge to the line and held him off to claim the biggest win of his career.Dillier, like Stuyven, had been in the day’s … Read more
The Cygolite Hotrod 50 USB rear light is a super-sleek model that performs remarkably well in all conditions thanks to six intelligent settings and largely generous run-times.The Hotrod looks very similar to Moon’s Comet X Pro, and the specification isn’t too far different from this and similar ‘strip light’ patterns. Only the fussiest of clutter-phobic … Read more
The Metropolitan Police have launched an appeal to try and trace a male cyclist whom they believe may have vital information regarding a collision in east London that claimed the life of a 32-year-old rider earlier this year.Karla Roman (pictured below) died in the Royal London Hospital from the injuries she sustained in a collision involving … Read more
Remember Evandro Portela? He’s the Brazilian cyclist who attached a GoPro camera to a truck and filmed himself drafting it at 124 kilometres an hour.> Video: Brazilian cyclist drafts lorry… at 124 kilometres an hourFootage of his exploits went viral after we featured it here on road.cc, and now he’s gone even faster, hitting 168 … Read more
Campagnolo is bringing back its Centaur aluminium groupset to replace the current Veloce range, although it’s now 11-speed and features technology that has trickled down from the Italian brand’s higher level groupsets. Centaur was a feature of the Campagnolo lineup for a long time before being sidelined two years ago. New Centaur comes into Campagnolo’s groupset hierarchy below … Read more
Pirelli is bringing its expertise in high-performance tyre manufacturing to the cycling market with the launch today of its PZero Velo range.The Italian company has been involved in the cycling market before. It reminds us that actually supplied tyres for 30 of the 49 finishers of the first ever Giro d’Italia in 1909. Apparently, even the … Read more
I’ve always enjoyed riding my bike at night.When I was a lad I’d strap my Walkman (Lone Justice, Bryan Adams and maybe some Propaganda, for cultural and historical reference) to my belt and razz about town on my bike in the dark, a self-contained unit of fun when all there was to be had in … Read more
If you’re not familiar with microSHIFT they were founded in Taiwan in 1999, starting with twist-type shifters for MTB and then making their first dual control levers for road in 2007. The Centos 11 is one of two 11 speed groupsets microSHIFT currently offer, the other one being the quite unfortunately named Arsis 11 which is a … Read more
