Bicycling Australia

AERO-OPTIMISED BIKE HELMETS have always been about balance and compromise and slowly but surely it seems the lines between the two are coming closer into alignment. For the past few months I’ve been training and racing in Lazer’s Bullet 2.0 MIPS helm

IT IS AN ANGLED INTERSECTION close to home, a quieter road and one I know well. Extremely vigilant and always aware of cyclists on that popular training route, I slowed the van while scanning to the right to double check no riders were coming. At tha

THERE HAS BEEN A BIG DRIVE from many of the smart trainer manufacturers recently to break into the smart bike market. The Wattbike has had the lion’s share of the smart bike market, but with many other options out there now, is the Wattbike still the

Anyone who has completed the Peaks Challenge event knows about the infamous WTF Corner and the climb that proceeds’ it. If you look at the segment on Strava it doesn’t look that daunting. In fact, you could argue it looks quite easy and straight forw

IN THE END IT CAME AND WENT IN A FLASH – THE MOST DISRUPTED year in decades and one we’ll never forget. Yes, 2020 is (almost) behind us and we are chomping at the bit for a fresh start come January 1. Rather than look back at the crazy year that was,

I DON’T SPEND TOO MUCH TIME looking into life’s rear view mirror, and in the case of 2020 I think I’ll stick to this way of thinking. For the cycling industry the volatility and challenges of 2020 have ultimately delivered strong growth and more eage

THE WORLD MASTERS GAMES OFFER A PLATFORM FOR over 30s to compete in a multitude of sports including five cycling categories. The 10th edition of the games were scheduled for Kansai, Japan early in 2021, and were set to showcase the region to travel-r

SOME WILL RECOGNISE DR BRIDIE O’DONNELL FROM her recent gig as a Tour de France commentator, others recall her from her record breaking UCI World Record women’s hour ride, while yet others know her as a civil servant for the Victorian State Governmen

PART OF MICHELIN’S ‘Competition Line’, the Power Road TLE uses the same X-Race compound as its tubed Power Road sibling. The tread thickness is also similar. In fact, tubeless aside, the main difference is the casing, upgraded from 3x120 TPI to 4x120

ELASTIC INTERFACE ARE FIRMLY established as a chamois manufacturer, in fact if you have more than a couple of pairs of knicks in the drawer it's likely they made the pad in one or more of them. During 2019 the company started branching into other are

IN THIS REVIEW WE LOOK AT TWO new saddles from Repente, an Italian company that is attempting to create innovative saddles in a range of styles. They are doing a few things that are a little different to standard, but good acronyms and marketing don’

BLACK SHEEP STARTED AS A passion project to create cycling garments that were an expression of self. To change an industry that, by their own admission, had become tired, boring and self-congratulatory. Their dream was to do things differently. To em

GreenEDGE cycling – aka WorldTour team Mitchelton-Scott - have announced that after close to a decade with bike partner Scott they will be riding Bianchi from 2021. The team are expected to ride Bianchi’s top-end models including the Specialissima an

I HAVE PREVIOUSLY TALKED ABOUT training, racing and almost all things bike related, but something less spoken about in the cycling community is grief. Grief can be a sensitive topic, and for many it can be difficult to find resources available to hel

WHO? LACC WOMEN WHERE? LIDCOMBEAUBURN CYCLE CLUB POST-RIDE? SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK IN EARLY 2015 LACC, WITH THE help of a small group of female members, started their first women’s only ride. This Wednesday morning ride continues to attract new rider

YOU’VE PROBABLY HEARD THE term, but what are junk miles or in our case junk K’s, and are they are bad thing? I went to the internet to find out what Google says it means and got back “Junk miles can be defined as cycling that has little or no trainin

IT IS NO SECRET THAT bicarbonate supplements have a positive effect on performance. Athletes have been using bicarb for years and the positives and advantages have been both proven and documented many times. A 2019 study, published by the Internation

An all-new model, the Scultura Endurance from Merida is not designed for lean, club racing whippets, nor for WorldTour pros, and it’s unlikely to carry anyone to the podium at the Grafton to Inverell, West Head Road Race or Melbourne to Warrnambool.

HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY TO shave 150-200g from your ride? What is the golden ratio? $2 per gram? $5 per gram? Wherever you land, it is clear that people are willing to spend a lot extra to get that saddle that is 15g lighter or those pedals that shave

IN AN AGE WHERE SUPER BIKES are something of the norm, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from an ever-growing crowd. However, that task is made a little bit easier when you have a history in designing some of the fastest cars in the w

AS OTHER MANUFACTURES HAVE been pursuing optimal aerodynamics, often at the cost of weight saving, Focus’s Izalco Max 9.6 seems to take a different path and do something differently. My first impressions soon into several hundred kilometres of testi

AS MUCH AS IT SHOCKED SOME, HIS TOUR WINNING DISPLAY OF sheer brilliance was no fluke. The 21-year old Slovenian UAE Team Emirates rider Tadej Pogačar had already won the Tour of California, the Volta ao Algarve, taken 3 Vuelta a’ Espana stages and f

IN THE PREVIOUS ISSUE OF BA I introduced the Favero Assioma Duo power meter pedals. This is a follow-up piece, because often reviews only give information based on some brief interaction with a product, and power meters are a device that it is import

THERE’S A 38-YEAR-OLD sprinter still kickin’ ‘round the peloton. He rides for Israel Start-Up Nation. His name is André Greipel. He’s won 22 Grand Tour stages, 11 of ‘em at the Big Daddy in July. He probably would’ve won a heap more if it wasn’t for