This 100% merino wool base layer provides loads of natural warmth and it’s environmentally sound too.The Jethro is made from 215g Zque (see below) merino which is a fairly heavyweight for a base layer. To give that some context, Howies’ NBL Classic base layer is 190g while the NBL Light that we reviewed recently is … Read more
We we wandering back from the shops at lunch time, and what did we see? A geodesic dome with a bike inside. Naturally we went to take a closer look…The dome in question is a one-night-only installation called Star Turn, and it’ll run through the night tonight at the Holburne Museum in Bath. It’s the … Read more
This Specialized CruX Elite was tested a while ago and turned out to be a great race-ready bike that was a bit held back by some of the parts fitted to meet its friendly £1,000 target. Proving the capability at the heart of the bike there’s a lot of Crux bikes racing the CX circuit … Read more
I’ll put my cards on the table: I’m not a world authority on shaving cream. So sue me… I’m a bike journalist. It hasn’t been especially important before. I’ve used plenty over the years, though, so here’s my take on Rapha’s version…First, it comes in a neat little screw-top tin that matches their chamois cream … Read more
Before Keith Bontrager was assimilated by the Trek Corporation and his name appeared on their whole gamut of finishing kit he was a renowned mountain bike frame builder and his off-road heritage is visible in these Jones CXR cyclo-cross tyres that look like a small mountain bike tyre, or one that’s far away.The claimed 34 … Read more
Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas has been talking to road.cc about his preparations for a 2012 season in which his big target is defending the Olympic team pursuit title he helped Great Britain win in Beijing in 2008. He also has some tips to help shake off the post-Christmas cobwebs for those of us whose cycling … Read more
SOS aka Save Our Soles socks have been around in the USA since 2003 gradually building up production from their Colorado factory and apart from shipping all over continental North America even have little international customers like your very own road.cc.The word about the quality and *ahem* very reasonable price of the road.cc socks has … Read more
With it pretty much an open secret that major component manufacturers including Shimano and SRAM are not far from releasing disc brakes systems suitable for use with the kind of combined gear and brake levers used on modern dropped-handlebar racers, the sport’s worldwide governing body for racing, the Union Cyclisme Internationale (UCI), has this week … Read more
In an article that national cyclists’ organisation the CTC has described as “unbelievably ignorant and grotesque,” the head of the Road Haulage Association (RHA) in Scotland says cyclists should carry insurance and maintains that those using iPods and similar devices when cycling should be charged with an offence of “cycling without due care, etc.”Phil Flanders, … Read more
SRAM have this lunchtime sent detailed photographs designed to highten excitement about the forthcoming update in February to their Red top-end component group.
