The festive period is a time to enjoy, offering a chance to unwind – but for cyclists, Christmas also presents an opportunity to prepare for the year ahead. It’s important to find a balance that allows you to stay active while enjoying the holiday spirit. To help you navigate this period successfully, we’ve put together ten top … Read more
The Velocio Alpha Zero Jacket is a near-perfect bit of kit for venturing out when the temperatures plummet, at its best when the mercury nears zero (the clue is in the name). It does a superb job of keeping you warm and dry in such conditions, and its warmth-to-weight ratio is impressive. If you like … Read more
Things might be winding down for Christmas, but don’t fear, there’s still plenty of new tech to squeeze into one more bumper edition of Tech of the Week before we all disappear off to eat and drink our bodyweight in mince pies and mulled wine. It’s our final tech round-up before 2025 and there’s plenty to tell you about, from … Read more
How do you cap one of the greatest cycling seasons – if not the greatest – of all time? By going and smashing one of the sport’s most hotly contested Strava KOMs, that’s how.In news that will surely leave anyone daring enough to challenge Tadej Pogačar’s supremacy in 2025 quaking in their cycling shoes, on … Read more
A proposed diversion for route for cyclists, which could be put in place from March due to works on a nearby roundabout, has been branded a “mud path” that will force people on bikes into “crowds of kids and parents” outside a school, a local councillor has claimed.The councillor has also claimed that funding to … Read more
Pro cyclist Jan-Willem van Schip has been handed a month-long ban by the UCI for making “indecent and very expressive gestures” at race officials, following an incident that saw the Dutch rider disqualified for a “dangerous” manoeuvre during a chaotic elimination race at the UCI track world championships in October.On the final day of competition … Read more
A cycle lane previously criticised as a “good initiative badly implemented”, due to its bumpy surface and elevated sections which disappear before junctions, spitting cyclists back out into traffic, has once again come under fire, after a councillor claimed that a section of the supposedly protected route has been flooded for almost a year.The huge … Read more
British cycling company Spoon Group, the owner-operator of bespoke bike brands Spoon Customs and WyndyMilla, as well as custom paint business Gun Control, has entered liquidation, following extensive efforts to adapt to what the group’s owner described as the ongoing “challenging market conditions” affecting the bike industry in recent years.At the start of 2020, Surrey-based … Read more
The Gorewear C5 Gore-Tex Thermo Gloves are highly weatherproof, breathable and surprisingly nimble. I’ve used them for general riding, on and off road, and though initially I had some discomfort in my left hand, as the miles racked up this has settled and I’ve been able to cruise along for as long as my legs … Read more
