Bicycling Australia

2020 ALREADY! IT CAN’T BE TRUE… I don’t know about you but I vividly recall 1980s and 1990s thoughts about what life might be like in the year 2020. Progressing from dragster to Mongoose BMX (with Tuffs!) to a Ricardo racer, I thought bike tech was p

FOLLOWING AN ONLINE ARTICLE about an 82yo English rider who recently passed one million miles by bike, we asked our readers for their stories…here are just a few of the responses. DEAR EDITOR, I started riding in my early 40s and am now 76 years old

Before you head overseas for your next cycling holiday you might like to consider a holiday closer to home with Mulga Bicycle Tours. Designed with the social rider in mind, their tours start each day at a respectable hour; travel at a relaxed pace an

PERHAPS THE ONLY THING MORE COLOURFUL THAN Mike Turtur’s time in charge of Australia’s premier bike race, is the gloriously candid way he reflects on the past 22 years. Get him started and the stories come flying out faster than Andre Greipel at Vict

THE 2019 UCI WORLDTOUR SEASON HAS BARELY finished. It’s just a week since the London Six-Day. But for the Sydney-born, Southern Highlands-raised, Monaco-based Caleb Ewan, 2020 has already begun in earnest. In between changing nappies and cramming in

GRAN FONDOS, THEY ARE ONE OF THE FASTEST growing aspects of the sport of cycling and, when you stop and think about it, this is for several very good reasons. The pre-event training, the personal challenge, the charity fundraising, the joy and fulfil

He’s one of the world’s leading cycling photographers and again was there for the Bowral Classic. Beardy McBeard again enjoyed a unique viewpoint at this year’s event – watching and photographing the action from the back of the lead motorcycle. Speak

WOMEN’S CYCLING: HOW FAR HAS IT COME IN Australia since the days a generation ago where it wasn’t unusual for a woman to be the only female rider in her club; championships were contested by only a handful of women and what female races existed were

AH, MY NEW KIT ARRIVED! “ECSTATIC SQUEALING” … Time to casually arrange myself atop my bike gazing at the camera as if I’m a house rug asking for a mattenklopper. I’ll snap that selfie, slap on a hashtag #newkitday, and post myself dancing about the

MORE AND MORE WOMEN ARE RIDING BIKES IN AUSTRALIA. According to the latest figures from AustRoads about 30 per cent of women ride bikes, and while that’s cycling overall it is also reflected in the pursuit of road cycling. And while there’s no specif

OFFICIALLY I’M HERE TO PREVIEW THE 2020 EDITION of the world’s second largest cycling trade show, TAIPEI CYCLE. Yet somewhat ironically, I’m not even in Taipei. I’m actually sitting in a press conference about 140km to the south of the Taiwan capital

BUT WHERE IN FRANCE? Competitive cycling is mostly about who can go up hills the fastest, so let’s locate next to an epic climb – something that defines the spirit of climbing in competition. There are a lot of fantastic cols to pick from in France a

WE COULD LABEL IT ‘THE urban stroll litmus test’… and, simply put, it’s this. The number of glances, drawn-out looks and comments one of our review bikes receives when being walked through the CBD prior to the start of the testing process. Walked…pus

WHEN IT COMES TO mechanical engineering, people seem to sit up and take notice if the product has a German flag on it. This is the case with the the vast majority of products and bicycles are no exception. Focus are a German-based bike company who ha

‘ROAM IF YOU WANT TO, ROAM around the world...' Ah yes, that glorious, upbeat and colourful song from the B-52's way back in 1989, a year when the latest cycling computer – an Avocet 30 for example – featured four, maybe five functions. How times hav

WHO? SHARLENE’S BUNCH WHERE? GLENELG, ADELAIDE POST-RIDE? CAFE EUROPA I AM SEEING MORE AND MORE women enjoying the freedom that riding a bike gives them. They don't always wear Lyrca and that is just fine, if riding a bike puts a smile on their fa

SHE’D BARELY STARTED PRIMARY SCHOOL when Geelong hosted the UCI Road World Championships in 2010. She’s still only in Grade 9. But if things go to plan over the next few years, Sarah Cliff, 15, from the Illawarra Cycling Club and Illawarra Academy of

WHEN THEY SIGNED BROTHERS Andy and Fränk Schleck to begin their debut season as Leopard-Trek in 2011, the former a runner-up-cum-winner at the previous year’s Tour de France thanks to the belated disqualification of Alberto Contador, this team probab