US bespoke brand Seven Cycles are launching a new road bike with a carbon fibre and titanium frame that’s their lightest ever.The 622 SLX weighs 1kg in a 54cm frame size. It uses rider-specific carbon tubes joined using titanium lugs that are designed to be stiff and durable as well as adding a whole lot … Read more
Building on Rapha’s slow but steady introduction of female specific garments into their range, the Merino Jersey marks the company’s first attempt at urban cycling gear for women. Designed to be a casual jersey with performance inherently built in, it is aimed at a huge spectrum of riders, from serious riders for down time use … Read more
Fibrax Powerglide sport stainless steel sport brake cables are a nice surprise. Cheap as chips, they’ll do old faithful proud without impairing the performance of your sportier Sunday ride. However, be sure to leave cable stretch to do its thing overnight, adjusting and snipping come the morning.In common with their Powershift siblings they feature Teflon … Read more
Your favourite website – well, we hope so, anyway – has today been named 34th in the second annual Social Media Brands 100 listing, and the credit goes to you, the people who help make road.cc what it is.When we launched road.cc a little under four years ago, that ‘cc’ suffix wasn’t chosen because domains … Read more
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has hinted that Greenwich and Vauxhall could become the first locations to see a ‘Go Dutch’ makeover in line with the campaign of that name launched by London Cycling Campaign. Mr Johnson made his comment in reply to a question from the Green Party’s Jenny Jones during last week’s Mayor’s … Read more
Plymouth has topped a list of the UK’s most cycle-friendly towns and cities compiled by Virgin Money. The research places Cambridge, the British city with the highest level of cycling, in 60th place. National cyclists’ organisation CTC has questioned the methodology used, saying that the use of casualty and theft statistics without relating them to … Read more
The new Reynolds RZR 92 time trial/triathlon wheels are stunningly light and fast – they’re so quick you’ll be amazed.We’ve reviewed a set of RZR – pronounced ‘razor’ – wheels before and they blew us away with their performance. That was the RZR 46T wheelset.Although the 92s look like a deeper-section version of the same … Read more
GRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNHNNNGGGGThat was the noise I found myself making about three quarters of the way up Gold Hill. Coincidentally it was also the noise that Oli was making twelve hours previously after a quiet one ended up being not so quiet. Far from ideal preparation for a sprint hillclimb.Gold Hill, in Shaftesbury. You know, off of … Read more
Effetto Mariposa Carbo Move is an effective penetrating lube designed to be kind to carbon fiber components: think of it as Plus Gas for the composite age. It’s sensitive enough to shift stuck-fast carbon goodies without damaging the resins that hold them together, but still has enough penetrating power to free up fasteners you overlooked … Read more
Don’t forget that a week today is the date of the Vulpine Cycling Fete at Balham bowls club. There’ll be all sorts of interesting brands there, including Donhou Cycles, Foffa, qoroz, Pearson, Milk Bikes, Kinesis UK, Tokyo Fixed and Ricky Feather as well as artists such as Rich Mitchelson, Philip Deacon, Will Barras, Jason Devine, … Read more
