Brighton-based titanium bike specialist Reilly has struck again at Ally Pally, showing off a prototype of a fascinating new race-focused gravel bike called the Reflex at the Cycle Show. While it’s built for speed, so says Reilly, this is very much practical and fast gravel rather than US-style, minimal aero gravel, as the Reflex can run a dropper post … Read more
The 76 Projects Hi Flow ‘No Clog’ tubeless valves are excellent, and a gamechanger in tubeless setups. Just be sure to buy the adaptor if you use a screw-on pump…Although these are different to install than standard tubeless valves, they’re not much more difficult. Rather than inserting the valve through the rim from inside, as … Read more
Wout van Aert is putting his monument near misses at the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix behind him in true cyclocross fashion this week – by getting cold and muddy on a bike with knobbly tyres.Instead of winding down after a tough spring classics campaign by vegetating on the sofa and bingeing on reality television, … Read more
A cyclist has died after falling 90 feet down a hillside while mountain biking with friends in the Peak District earlier this week.The tragic incident occurred on Tuesday at around 5.30pm at Foulstone Delph, off the Mortimer Road, in the north-easterly part of the Peak District, near Sheffield.Both the Edale and Woodhead Mountain Rescue teams … Read more
A motorist who killed a cyclist after swerving onto the other side of the road, while driving with multiple drugs in his system, has been jailed for more than six years and handed a 12-year driving ban.40-year-old Colin McCourt was cycling home from his work as a mechanical engineer at HM Naval Base Clyde in … Read more
The Vielo R+1 Alto Classified, the British company’s newest bike, has used the latest technology to turn a bike that is 1x only into one that effectively has the gear range of a 2x setup. It has achieved this by incorporating Classified’s Powershift rear hub, which keeps the same simplistic and smooth lines that the … Read more
A Scottish MP pointed out in Parliament today that the spend per head in England, outside of London, would be lower than a pound — 5,000% less than what the Scottish Government is spending to encourage active travel, after the £200 million cut to England’s budget.SNP’s Gavin Newlands, speaking in the House of Commons today morning, questioned the UK … Read more
In October, I was in Como for the finish of Il Lombardia, the race that one of my favourite riders over the past couple of decades, two-time winner Vincenzo Nibali, chose to bring down the curtain on his career – with the 2023 edition won of course by defending champion Tadej Pogačar , who has rapidly … Read more
