Spring kit picks

Spring is a time of reawakening. The flowers bloom, the trees blossom, woodland creatures emerge from their burrows and cyclists leave the safety of their turbos to venture out onto the tarmac again. Those hardier souls who have ridden outdoors throughout the winter start to peel off their layers, and everyone has the same thought on their minds: it’s time for some new kit.

Gearing up for spring can be tricky as it’s such as capricious season. On any given outing a rider can be faced with a multitude of weather conditions or wild temperature fluctuations. That’s before having to deal with the mud and debris-strewn roads of winter that haven’t yet had time to clear up or dry off.

Fortunately, the Cyclist team has a wealth of experience when it comes to testing lots of different kit in all kinds of conditions, and over the next few pages we’ll reveal the products that we reach for time and again to help get us going in spring.

It might be a packable jacket that we’ve found protects us from those April showers, a pair of tyres that consistently come through