Bicycling Australia

ONE OF THE MANY INCREDIBLE ASPECTS OF OUR SPORT IS THE camaraderie that comes with cycling. Whether it’s small talk with a complete stranger at the cafe, a subtle nod to a fellow rider, taping on an Instagram post or reading tips and advice in a titl

WE HAVE ALL SEEN THE RISE and rise of indoor smart trainers and the various online platforms to compliment your outdoor cycling habits, well I certainly have … it’s been rampant! This can be a touchy subject for some in the industry, riding indoors o

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of their premium road offering, BMC have launched the 2021 Teammachine range. Lighter and aero optimised, the downtube features a greater overall surface with reduced edges and improved lateral stiffness. There is a

NICK JOHNS IS A MAD-KEEN SYDNEY BASED cyclist. When not pushing pedals or sipping coffee he works at the 99 Bikes store in Bondi Junction. While taking a short break during what he described as “yet another insanely busy day”, and almost out of breat

BRODIE MAI CHAPMAN HAS SHOWN CONSISTENTLY GOOD FORM AS AN elite athlete for years, but her path to pro-level cycling has been far from typical. Turning professional in January 2018, she enjoyed a solid two years with US-based women’s team Tibco-SVB –

AERO It’s all about aero these days - road, time trial and even gravel bikes, wheels, helmets, GPS computers … even bidons are now designed with aero-optimisation in mind. Aero simply equates to efficiency, and that boils down to the rider going furt

IT BEGAN AS SO MANY SEEMINGLY crazy ideas do: with an off-the-cuff suggestion that I quickly laughed off after it was first put to me. When Anthony Gordon, my Race Across America (RAAM) crew chief and acclaimed videographer/storyteller, suggested rid

THE BACKSTORY TO MATTHEW Hayman’s 2016 Roubaix win is one of legend. Injured early in the season, he used Zwift to keep training. A last-minute addition to the GreenEDGE team for Roubaix, the fairytale was complete when he defeated four-time winner T

BICYCLING AUSTRALIA: YOU WERE A RIDING STAR WITH SOME WONDERFUL RESULTS IN TRIATHLON BEFORE MAKING THE SWITCH TO ROAD AND TRACK CYCLING – HOW DID THIS UNFOLD? AMBER PATE: I love the grind of training, I am very self-disciplined and have loads of high

SCHWALBE PRO ONE TLE HAS been designed specifically for tubeless use and, unlike some of its major competitors, is suitable for use with the majority of hooked or hookless bead rims. Weighing in at just 245 grams (700x25) – the thinner TT version is

TAKE A LOOK IN THE BACK OF A team car, or near a team bus at a major cycling event, and it’s likely you’ll see several of these bags. Firmly established as one of the ultimate ways to keep cycling gear together, Scicon pretty well own this sector of

IT’S FAIR TO SAY THE CYCLING KIT market is full to overflowing – cyclists these days are literally spoiled for choice when it comes to not only purchasing new gear but planning what to wear on a ride. All manner of colours, styles, fabrics, designs,

Entry is simple: • Follow @bicyclingaustralia and @Cinettica on Instagram. • Post an image of yourself in old cycling kit • Include the hashtags #Cinettica & #WinWithBA Bicycling Australia and Cinettica will choose the five most creative images. Entr

FIRST SPIED AT EUROBIKE 2019 and later at last year’s Bowral Classic, the release of the Volt smart trainer from Aussie-based JetBlack Cycling has been a little like a drawn-out drumroll. They say ‘good things come to those who wait’, and being a ver

THIS BIKE, A BELGIE V3, IS A high-performance machine in an elegant modern package that will stay with you through the decades. It comes from Curve, the quintessential Australian adventure cycling brand, who maintain a playful yet intense dedication

AMID ALL THE FOCUS ON tubeless tyres in the new bike market it is easy to lose sight of the fact that most road bikes and all the “legacy” bikes out there still use a tube to hold the air inside the tyres. As some sort of proof of this I refer you to

Curve’s titanium bikes perform consistently under conditions that have grown men weeping and carbon chainstays cracking under the pressure, bringing home a swathe of wins and collecting a staunch fan club who hold onto their bikes for years. I caught

ALL ROADS ARE NOT CREATED equal, thankfully, and nor are gravel bikes. These ever-evolving machines span the gap between road bikes and mountain bikes. There are many shades of grey emerging in design, and many options to help a rider feel most comfo

WITH THREE PREMIUM ROAD offerings - the Emonda, Domane and Madone - Trek’s product cycle for their climbing, endurance and aero platforms is three years. So, you don’t need to be a maths wiz to work out that each year one model of this triumvirate of

DURING RECENT YEARS, WE have seen a steady increase in the number of people mountain biking and I’m pleased to say many of them are familiar faces. Maybe you’ve seen them on a road bike? That’s right, many roadies have expanded their horizons and tak

HOW RIDING HAS CHANGED IN 2020. The simple pleasure of hopping onto a popular cycling route and jumping on the back of a group flying by is all but a dream at the moment. Instead, it’s “meet ups” on the Zwift Companion app or riding on your own or wi

1 USE A FAN. I cannot stress enough how much better your training experience will be if you have a good quality fan. The Wahoo is expensive, but impressive; you can control it from our heart rate. 2 DON’T RIDE ALONE. Join the group rides and do some

WHEN YOU THINK OF THE origins of Mitchelton-Scott, athletes aside, you probably think of two names: caravan king and chief financier Gerry Ryan, and Matthew White, the team’s head sports director. But there is one more name. Or, until a press release