Bicycling Australia

WELCOME TO A PARTICULARLY EXCITING EDITION OF BICYCLING Australia, the first for 2019 and our bumper Tour Down Under issue! One of our annual highlights is to see fans and enthusiasts roadside at the TDU, having their Jan/Feb copies of Australia’s t

Bryton has been in the GPS game for a little while, but its new Aero 60 model could be one of its best yet. Like the Wahoo Elemnt Bolt, it’s designed to be an aerodynamic GPS unit, with a dimpled rear profile and an integrated out-front aero mount. T

FOLLOWING A SUCCESSFUL two-month racing stint in Belgium during the European summer – including victory at Wachtebeke in Flanders – he returned to Australia and has since recorded multiple NRS podiums and a string of top 10 results riding for the Sou

RATHER THAN LABEL IT ‘AUSTRALIA’S PREMIER stage race’ or ‘Australia’s biggest bike race’ or something else, it’s probably best to call it for what it is: Australia’s most important cycling event. Because without a shadow of doubt, over the past 20 ye

THE UCI 2.1 RACE WILL FEATURE FOUR stages taking place between 10-13 January. For the 2019 edition, the townships of Hahndorf, Nuriootpa and Nairne have been selected to feature as starting towns, with dynamic race routes designed to appeal to sprint

At 3km in length and with an average gradient of 7.4 percent, this one is tough. Ritchie Porte is the all-time King of Willunga. With an astonishing record of 6min and 39 seconds, Ritchie is five-time winner of the Willunga stage. If you’re planning

EVEN THE MOST OPTIMISTIC OF EVENT ORGANISERS would agree the pre-event weather predictions didn’t look good. A 95% chance of up to 40mm of rain on event day, that phenomenal above-mentioned storm, and frosty temperature forecasts. But Saturday’s stor

THE WOLLONGONG WATERFRONT MAY BE RELATIVELY QUIET TODAY, with chip-chasing seagulls outnumbering cyclists. But in just under four years’ time, the roads of this proud coastal city nestled at the foot of the Illawarra Escarpment will be buzzing with t

THE CLIMB TO THE ICONIC NSW SKI resort of Charlotte Pass begins as soon as you leave whichever Jindabyne coffee shop from which you decide to start. It’s a a relentless, continual climb that will take you from an altitude of 910m to 1,841m, with very

PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE, CAMERON Frewer left behind a loving wife, three heartbroken children, and a cycling safety, equality and awareness legacy that spanned a decade and reached countless numbers of people. Making the most of technology and t

FOR MANY OF US, HAIRPIN bends are just about the best thing about any ride; especially when they’re twisting like a slippery serpent off the side of a jaw dropping mountain pass. Master them, you're in for ultimate skinny tyre fun. But, as ever, ther

WE ARE ALL GUILTY OF IT: WE get back from a great ride, grab a coffee and then sit down for a while (or in some cases quite a long time) to chat all things bikes. Meanwhile, our bodies slowly get colder and our muscles contract. If you have been sitt

THE VAST MAJORITY OF CYCLISTS HAVE NEVER been to see a fitting expert. Maybe a bike shop has helped with sizing and fitting when the bike was purchased, but that is impossible for people who purchased second-hand or mail order. There are a few things

ASK 100 DIFFERENT CYCLISTS about carbon wheels and you’ll get 100 different answers. Indeed, the arguments can be almost as circular as the wheels themselves. One of the big reasons is the growing size and diversity of the carbon wheelset market. Wel

THE GRAVEL BIKE PHENOMENON has well and truly arrived Down Under. Gravel events like Wagga Wagga’s Gears and Beers are popping up all over the calendar, there’s a gravel National Championship, and groups like the Central Coast’s Graveleur collective

BORN FROM THE NATURAL desire for more freedom, fewer walls, and to test bikes in the real world conditions they were designed for, Bicycling Australia have been ticking off a number of dream Aussie must-ride destinations over the past year or so. The

DESIRE IS A FUNNY THING. Princess Leia would say that the more you tighten your grip, the more of it would slip through your fingers. Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan described us as being motivated toward the object we desire by something else: the thing

CHRIS, 34, HAS SPENT A LOT OF time training on Illawarra region roads and he can’t wait to hear which courses will be chosen for the big event. Certainly, he could suggest a few! “I think it’s awesome. The climbs like Jamberoo, which is a dead road,

WHO? THE HURT BOX WHEN? 5:45AM TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY WHERE? MOORABBIN TOWN HALL OR KFC BENTLEIGH COFFEE SHOP? GATEAUX HAMPTON OR GAUGE BENTLEIGH IF YOU’VE RIDDEN MUCH AROUND Melbourne’s Beach Road, Mt Eliza or the 'Nong' you’ll probably ha

WHEN A THREE-TIME WORLD road champion and the current most recognisable figure in the sport tells you cycling is boring to watch, we need to sit up and listen. “If you look only at the last 10 kilometres, (or last) five or one, everything happens at

THE SENSATIONS OF PEDALLING. Your muscles turning on and off. The rhythm, the sense of balance, motion. Sweating. Sometimes just lightly, sometimes as though it’s raining, sometimes just enough to catch the chill of the wind. The satisfaction as time