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The one everyone remembers is Rule #5 – ‘Harden The F*** Up’ – but there was (and still is) a long list of Rules, as laid down by the Velominati, governing everything from sock length to quick release positioning. As the Velominati pointed out, howev

Ever since the name first appeared in the mid-80s, ‘Specialissima’ has been reserved for Bianchi’s most traditional bikes. They have always been classic in form – a double-diamond construction of round tubes and rim brakes that married light weight a

$299, fesports.com.au These are the squarer version of 100%’s rounder Westcraft glasses. Like their sibling, the Eastcraft glasses can accommodate either a one-piece lens or two-piece lenses, the only obvious difference being that the wedge-shaped sp

$219, fesports.com.au If the image to your left looks familiar but the name does not, here’s why. The first name change is the brand: formerly known as Aftershokz, the bone conduction headphones specialists are now known simply as Shokz. And their mo

$2,335, shimano.com.au Last issue, Cyclist featured the latest Dura-Ace wheelset and concluded: ‘$3,385 a pair seems a bargain.’ Well, bargain hunters read on. We all know Ultegra works just like Dura-Ace, but at a lower price. In bygone generations,

Thermal jacket $219.95, bib short $219.95, vest $149.95, jersey $129.95, giant-bicycles.com/au Half a decade ago, cycling kit was out of control. Crazy colours, outlandish designs and wacky combinations were the norm, ensuring anyone could stand out

$3,650, apollobikes.com ERC is DT Swiss’s endurance-focused wheel range and it’s just had a shiny update with new 1100 and 1400 Dicut models designed to thrive over long distances and varying surface quality. These are the 1100s, top of the DT tree a

$239, shimano.com.au What we love about Shimano (and the cycling industry for that matter) is that there’s a product to suit just about anyone. The RC5 is the mega-brand’s mid-tier road shoe. Its synthetic leather and airy mesh outer, along with Shim

For all the concern of seeing Mark Cavendish crash badly on the track at the end of November, most viewers were probably less concerned about his continued presence at the Ghent Six than the impact those fractured ribs may have on his 2022 road seaso

In 2002 a new race was added to the international cycling calendar. The Tour of Qatar seemed like a novelty – a professional race held in the desert – but it had serious ambition behind it, as well as serious money and, perhaps crucially, the endorse

Everyone wants more comfort, but adding vertical flex into a rigid frame is a difficult thing to do without compromising other areas like stiffness, weight or aerodynamics. A stiff bike is a fast bike, so when it comes to adding in comfort, manufactu

Cyclist: Can you talk us through your experience of breaking the Hour record in 2014? Jens Voigt: I went into my last season badly prepared. I’d been cutting half an hour off training here, half an hour there, and I got my head kicked in. I was mad a

By the time the 1940s rolled into the 1950s, a total of 73 Swiss riders had taken to the start line of a Tour de France, with a solitary podium place between them – Leo Amberg finishing third in 1937. If Switzerland hadn’t exactly set the race alight

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More sleep is good, but a study published in August 2021 from researchers at University of Colorado Boulder points towards the ‘when’ being just as important as the ‘how long’. Researchers analysed a DNA database of 697,828 people held by biotech com

Core training for cycling is important but not that important. You could win the Tour de France and never do core training. The lower back and triceps are the key to holding your body up on the bike, and you’ll notice in many photos that a cyclist’s

Porridge is literally the oldest one in the book. Analysis of a pestle and mortar-type tool found in the Paglicci Cave in southern Italy shows evidence of ‘thermally treated’ avena, a genus of grass-like plants commonly called oats. And while Quaker

When: Before you get off the bike. What: Once you’ve finished your training session, spin easily for five to ten minutes. ‘Most people do similar rides on regular routes, so have a point at which you start once you’ve warmed up and stop to warm down,

If it’s not a meme already, it should be. In the form of ‘What my overseas friends think Australia is like’ vs. ‘What Australia is actually like’. Internationals think our backyards are full of kangaroos and we race emus to the shops, whereas reality

$399, thule.com/en-au As I unboxed my new Thule rack, my significant other remarked, unironically, that this assembly ‘looks a little like Ikea’. Mind blown, then, when I explained that Thule are indeed (also) Swedish and that the box comes with a he

Check it out at strava.com/routes/27079634 or scan the QR code. Our route took in three Shires: Northern Grampians (home of Halls Gap), Ararat, and Southern Grampians (home of Dunkeld). It was an easy starting and finishing point at the big car park

Yes, another Baum. I’m fortunate to have more than one. This bike was recently re-painted by Baum with their latest RS font – because a steel bike is for life kids, not just for Christmas. It is their Essence model. A modern take on the classic steel

If you’d been walking down Boulevard des Deportes in the Breton town of Fougeres on the morning of Stage 4 of the 2021 Tour de France, you might have spotted a bicycle rack outside a primary school. This particular bike rack is forged in the shape of

As a sometime professor of strategic management, Jamie Anderson has a neat line on market dynamics as it applies to collecting bicycles. ‘It parallels demographic shifts,’ he explains from his house in Flanders. ‘In the past 15 years we’ve seen an ex

Over the years that Cyclist has been visiting the world’s Classic Climbs, we’ve had one that shares its name with an aperitif (Monte Grappa), one that is a wine appellation (Ventoux) and one that gets within two letters of a fruity Swedish cider (Kop

‘Pretty sure the year was ’74… Monterey Butterfly Criterium, with Olympians Smilin’ George Mount and Ron Skarin in the rear view mirror… he nipped me at the line for the win… said I was the only rider that year that beat him at the Tour of the Centra

There have been occasions in my life where I have found myself awestruck by incredible rides, made perfect by the roads, lack of traffic, and stellar company. Day one (Milawa to Beechworth) of the Girls Gravel & Gourmet weekend, run by the High Count

A sensational cycling weekend exploring the roads less travelled in the beautiful High Country while eating and drinking along the way: that’s what was promised, and that’s what was delivered. Stunning gravel roads meander through farmland, forest, w

Prepare for the backroads with plenty of turns. Head south out of Milawa on Allans Lane. Left onto Whorouly-Bobinawarrah Road, which then becomes Kneebones Gap Road. Left onto Racecourse Lane. A quick dogleg right-turn onto Snow Road before turning l

The latest version of Cervelo’s climber’s bike makes a lot of small tweaks in search of big gains. And if it’s good enough for Primož Roglič… The clue is in the name – the Swiss giant’s road bike line-up gets a new model that can head off-road withou

‘If you look back at the Porsche 911s of the 1980s, they were widow-makers and the performance wasn’t there. But look at a current generation GT2 and it’s like you can – you shouldn’t, but you can – get the groceries. It’s comfortable every day, and

It took an apple falling from a tree and hitting him on the head for Sir Isaac Newton to have his ‘eureka moment’ in developing the laws of motion and universal gravitation. For Specialized engineer Peter Denk, all it took was finite element analysis

Now that 2021 has coughed and wheezed to a close, I find myself standing in a churchyard on a hill overlooking a beautiful white beach in the north-east of Scotland, looking for a forgotten fragment of cycling history. The rider whose grave I’m tryin

Road plus. All-road. Gravel-adjacent. Groad. Choose your subculture. Choose life. Choose the BMC Roadmachine X. We’re living in an age of what BMC engineer Tobias Habegger calls ‘micro segmentation’, as brands try to work out what the hell different