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Cycling doping cases fall, but anti-doping group warns of “grey areas” and “increased medicalisation”

A leading anti-doping association has warned that cycling must remain cautious despite a decrease in doping cases in cycling that show the sport to be a “model student”.The Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC), a voluntary organisation comprising several professional teams and more than 300 individual athletes, has published its latest ‘credibility’ figures, detailing the number … Read more

Redundancies at Frog Bikes after popular children’s bike brand files to appoint administrators

Frog Bikes has started making redundancies despite declaring two weeks ago that it was “committed to securing a positive outcome” for its employees.The British children’s bike brand confirmed it had filed to appoint administrators two weeks ago due to “tighter financial markets and reduced access to funding [making] it increasingly difficult for growing manufacturing businesses … Read more

Cycplus T7 Smart Bike

The Cycplus T7 Smart Bike is designed to provide a seamless “set-and-forget” indoor training experience. Unlike traditional turbo trainers, it eliminates the need to sacrifice an outdoor bike or conduct messy cassette swaps. With an extremely quiet belt drive and a compact 0.77m2 footprint, it aims to compete with premium offerings from Wahoo, Wattbike and … Read more

The cheapest ways to make your bike faster and more comfortable

Most of us want a faster bike, or we want it to be comfier for long rides… and some of us want both. The problem is, there are plenty of cycling products that cost a lot of money, yet deliver pretty woeful performance gains. No one likes that, so here’s how to focus your money … Read more

“The perfect endurance bike”: Quirk Cycles unveils two very exclusive framesets, including one developed with Rapha founder Simon Mottram to tackle 220-mile Manchester to London ride

The Hackney-based custom frame builder Rob Quirk has announced the release of two strictly limited editions of his Mamtor and Durmitor frames, the latter developed with Rapha founder Simon Mottram specifically to tackle the mammoth 220-mile Manchester to London mega sportive. For Quirk Cycles, this signals a move from purely bespoke builds to small-batch production … Read more

Could Tour de France stages soon be raced in the morning? Scientists warn climate change and extreme heatwaves could make afternoon racing too dangerous

While blue-skied, sun-drenched, sunflower-packed Tour de France stages may be one of the great traditions of the sporting summer, scientists have warned that global warming and extreme heatwaves may soon make many July afternoons too hot for racing at the world’s most famous bike race.Instead, researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health have advised … Read more

Specialized and Trek among major bike brands suing US government to recover Trump tariff costs following Supreme Court ruling

Numerous major names from across the bike industry have filed legal proceedings in the hope of receiving tariff rebates. This comes following the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Trump administration’s use of powers associated with wartime or national emergency to implement the controversial economic policy was illegal.Several brands of varying sizes from across the industry … Read more