With a weight below the UCI limit, top-end components like SRAM’s latest Red groupset and deep-section Zipp wheels, the Canyon Ultimate CFR AXS is light, stiff, nimble and with a hint of aero. Canyon describes its top-flight bike as ‘a dream bike in every sense’, and I’d have to agree. For the spec and performance, … Read more
Tour de France race organisers have confirmed that wearing masks will be a mandatory requirment in the mixed zones before and after the stages finish, including any members of the press, guests as well as the organisers themselves having to wear a mask after fears of Covid spreading through the peloton grew after British rider … Read more
As the knife was twisted further in the battle for the yellow jersey on stage 14’s final climb of Pla d’Adet, broadcast cameras caught the footage of a spectator shoving a bag of crisps in the faces of the two main protagonists of the 2024 Tour de France, UAE Team Emirates’ Tadej Pogačar and Visma-Lease a … Read more
Peaty’s LinkLube Dry chain lube is a wax-based formula that stakes some big claims on longevity and performance. It does last well in the right conditions, but the bottle design is poor and makes applying it more difficult than it should be. Suggested for desert-dry and dusty conditions, it’s actually more usable in British conditions … Read more
With the Tour de France still in full swing and Eurobike – one of the world’s biggest bike exhibitions – wrapping up last week, we’re back to rounding up tech from across the web, the Tour, our inbox and some bits we might have forgot to tell you about at the show. Without further ado, here’s … Read more
The dissatisfaction and safety concerns that cyclists in the UK feel compared with their European peers has been documented in new research highlighting the at times stark difference in experience between British cyclists and their counterparts in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Germany.Water management company ACO last month published the findings of its research in … Read more
According to the Bladder & Bowel Community, the average person goes for a wee six to seven times every 24 hours, though that number can happily reach 10. That’s once every 144 minutes or two hours and 24 minutes. The longest stage of this year’s Tour de France, is the 209km second stage which was won by … Read more
The Ortlieb Toptube-Bag boasts a generous 1.5 litre capacity and you can strap it or bolt it to your frame. It’s well made and robust with understated good looks. Above all, it is exceptionally easy to access the contents while on the move. But the bag’s width may not appeal to all, which also goes … Read more
In a likely first for cycle lane complaints a Conservative councillor has suggested that only locals with four Tour de France yellow jerseys would be up for regularly tackling the hill it is to be situated on, but also that “all sorts of people” would be “flying up and down that hill using it as a … Read more
We may earn affiliate commission from some of the links included on this pageThe weather might not be great right now, but the sweet cycling discounts in our latest Dealclincher round-up certainly are! We’ll start with a sale across our own road.cc merch store before getting into the other best deals we’ve spotted across t’internet this … Read more
