Bicycling Australia

ONLINE COMMENTS, THEY ARE THE LATTER DAY LETTER TO THE editor, and lately we’ve been inundated by them. Of all the issues in the extremely fluid sport of cycling over the past five years, three articles have attracted around a quarter of all the comm

AS WE ROAR INTO 2022, WE CAN look forward to more challenges and hurdles to jump over, but certainly more freedoms—which, let’s face it, our sport delivers in spades. “Are we out of the woods?” you might ask. I certainly feel optimistic and believe l

AUSTRALIAN CYCLIST ANNETTE EDMONDSON hung up her bike late last year, calling time on her 10 years of racing at an international level. And although she didn’t achieve her dream of winning Olympic Gold, she says she’s satisfied with her many achievem

FINANCIAL SECURITY, THE FULL SUPPORT OF A close-knit team, a flawless track record and the comfort and stability of a contract would have to be up there as just about everything an aspiring professional cyclist could ever want. Throw in some of the w

THE BLISTERING, DRY HEAT AND RELENTLESS SUN take its toll as I approach my tenth hour of riding off-road for the day—bumping along corrugations, scanning for somewhere suitable in these vast plains to set up my tent and stealth camp for the night. I

On becoming a privateer, Nathan will not just be the only rider in the team, but will also manage every aspect of it as well. We asked him how the business side of Team Haas may pan out? “It will be tricky,” he said with his usual raw honesty. “I’m o

The Curve GMX+ is an oversized frame with numerous bosses, designed to carry gear. My bikepacking bags are primarily from Revelate Designs and include a harness and bar roll; a full-frame bag; 2 x feed bags and a Vole saddle bag. I carried gear on th

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID THEN DELAYED DUE TO lockdowns, there was no way 2021 could come to a close without the 5th annual Bowral Classic going ahead. And what a Classic it was. Bicycling Australia’s original Gran Fondo event, the Bowral Classic was fi

SOME 30-PLUS YEARS AGO I SOMEHOW FIGURED out that by carrying a basic point-and-shoot film camera on my rides and bike trips that I could actually capture some pretty decent images, which, when laced together with a few hand-written words, turned int

TO GET THIS FEATURE ROLLING, I asked three mechanics to detail the three main issues they see. After some consideration, I chose three mechanics who once worked together in the same bike shop and have since gone in very different directions. As I’m C

C LIPLESS PEDALS GO BACK TO the mid-80s, and Speedplay got into the game around 1990. So, they’ve been doing the road pedal thing for more than 30 years and longer than most. And in all that time, through several evolutions of the product, they have

Cycling engineer extraordinaire Richard Bryne and his wife Sharon Worman are founders and former owners of Speedplay, the couple selling the company to Wahoo in 2019. The Speedplay success story started well before the release of a small number of ve

YOU HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY ticking off each session on your training plan for months to build endurance, speed, increase your FTP and ensure you get to the start line of your Gran Fondo in peak condition. But have you put the same time, thought and trai

DESCRIBED AS ‘THE SWISS Army knife of the Gravel genre’, the AO (Maori for ‘Earth’) is the the gravel offering from New Zealand based frameset company Chapter2 bikes. A relative latecomer to the booming gravel market, Chapter2 designers have had time

FROM THE HIGH TEENS, THROUGH the twenties, with a few slight stops along the way (like 23, 25 and 28), road tyre widths have been steadily increasing. From 28 it went to 30, then 32’s—which have become surprisingly popular—and now German tyre giant S

THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF options when it comes to upgrading your bike. Towards the top of the list is a new set of performance wheels—and at the top of that list, or very close to it, you’ll find the superb TLO 45 tubeless-ready disc wheelset from Germ

IT WASN’T THAT LONG AGO THAT crank arms were up there as some of the heftiest and heaviest components of a bike. Those old-school, cotter-pinned steel cranks sure did look good with their mirror polish finish, but gee they packed some weight. The Eas

“IF ONLY THEY WERE EASIER TO fit…” It’s been over a year since I typed those words. But they are, verbatim, how I ended my review of Continental’s first generation of tubeless GP 5000 tyres, the TL. Well, I am delighted to report that, even if you re

fors & againsts…you’d just about need an excel spreadsheet when pitting new model bikes against each other these days. And I’m not just talking competing brands here, even models from the same stable often include impressive standard features that ma

THE WORLD IS CONSTANTLY evolving, and so too is the array of bikes available to satisfy our never-ending desire to have ‘just one more’ noble steed. Call me old but I remember the time when the choice was pretty simple: road or mountain bike. Now, ho

WITH BUNCHIES BACK IN FULL swing, I think it’s time to go on another rant and examine the things that make me angry in the bunch. Sure, some of the following is slightly tongue-in-cheek, but bunch etiquette is critical and a very important part of sa

BROADCASTING THE TOUR DE France in Australia since 1991, SBS Television, in the space of three months, threw away more than 50 years of cycling experience by jettisoning two of their most cherished personalities. On October 12 last year, Michael Toma

Cannondale have launched the 5th incarnation of their popular endurance platform, the Synapse. The 2022 model features a range of unique safety inclusions under the ‘SmartSense’ moniker. In a nutshell, the headline is an integrated rear-facing radar