SE bikes have a long heritage in the BMX market with design classics such as the PK Ripper but they’re fairly new in the 700c fixed market, prototyping in 2007 and rolling out the range in 08. For 09 the beer-inspired range has three flavours: Draft, Lager and Premium. We suspect the £429 Lager will … Read more
Mavic were very keen to show off the new Carbone SLR wheel, and an very innovative bit of kit it is too. The rim extrusion and carbon section are lighter for 09, but the big change is in the spokes. Mavic have used a rim-to-rim build, so spokes start at one side of the rim … Read more
Condor’s enormous stand was filled with pretty much every incarnation of every bike they make, it seemed. The Rapha Condor bikes were there, of course, with the Leggero being the pick. The frame alone is £1499 and builds start from £1899 – but not, we’re guessing, with Dura Ace 7900 as shown here. The Potenza … Read more
Sunrace have been knocking around for 35 years, and spent most of that time churning out cheaper transmission bits and bobs. In the last couple of years, though, they’ve been developing a high-end alternative, and the Driven RX groupset is the culmination of that work. The Shimano-compatible components include carbon shifters, chainset and mechs, and … Read more
Boutique Italian builders Milani don’t currently have a UK importer but they’re selling direct to the UK and had some nice machines on their stand. The Replica is a beautiful braze-welded steel affair; it’s currently specced with a Record carbon chainset and shifters but the Milani boys were scouting the show (especially the Condor stand!) … Read more
Moulton are celebrating fifty years of small-wheeled goodness, and to mark the occasion they’ve come up with a special TSR in a strictly limited edition of 50. The TSR 50 features a Schlumpf Speed Drive at the front and a two-speed Sturmey Archer Duomatic hub at the rear. The Duomatic is a rare old piece … Read more
We’ve been lucky enough to see the Cervelo P4 in the flesh now, and it certainly looks like it’s going fast even when it’s just sitting on the stand. Cervelo were also keen to show us the new S3, which is also brand new but has been a bit lost in the P4’s wake. It … Read more
Nick Lobnitz, the designer and creator of the Carry Freedom range of bike trailers, has been turning his hand to bike design after an approach from the Post Office to design a one-size-fits-all utility bike. The resulting steed borrows much from the Dutch bike movement but has plenty of interesting and original touches too. The … Read more
Chris Hewings from Litespeed showed us the new Litespeed Blade frame, updated from Eurobike. Now it’s got internal cable routing, and he also shared some design process secrets with us. Did you know the down tube was manufactured using processes designed for building the wings of cruise missiles? Neither did we. But we do now…
It’s everyone’s favourite do-everything bike, and we asked Steve Johnson of Salsa to talk us round it. What we really want to do is ride the thing, on every surface: can one bike really handle it all? sadly we’ll have to wait till February to find out, but find out we will… watch this space.
