Bicycling Australia

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BIKE. NO, I’M NOT TAKING THE SEAN YATES STORY or Robert Penn novel, or the Velominati’s — the keepers of the cog (praise Eddy) — Rule #4. No, it’s bigger than that…it’s life. And probably for you, definitely for me, and for many mi

Black Sheep’s latest long sleeved race jersey has proven a hit, with the ‘Long Sleeve Aero’ incorporating UPF 40+ sun protection into a slick performance fit along with many other features and benefits. Quality long sleeved jerseys can be difficult t

HAVING RECENTLY DELIVERED our inaugural Snowy Classic on March 26 in the stunning Snowy Mountains, the experience really rammed home the allure of regional Australia. Towns like Jindabyne, Lorne, Wagga Wagga and Mudgee are special places with an enor

OLYMPIAN MAEVE PLOUFFE IS RAPIDLY EMERGING as one of the most exciting Australian riders to watch after winning the first ever Warrnambool Women’s Cycling Classic, a gruelling 160km race and the longest race in the world on the women’s calendar. The

HELD ON SATURDAY MARCH 26, THE DEBUT Snowy Classic event drew 1,200 enthusiasts to the Snowy Mountains region, with riders enjoying absolutely perfect cycling conditions. Bicycling Australia’s fifth Gran Fondo event after the Bowral, Noosa, Mudgee an

KINETICORE IS UNLIKE ANY other existing helmet protection—Lazer worked for over a decade to create a radical, new system that completely changes the current way of thinking about brain protection. The result? Advanced protection technology that’s bui

ALL RIDES ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL. BUT WHAT are the best rides in Australia and what makes them so? Is it the scenery? The weather? The gradients? The absence of traffic? The company? The local hospitality? The history? Or could it even be a combinatio

KIT AND APPAREL TECHNOLOGY HAS COME AN incredibly long way in a relatively short space of time. Even just a couple of decades ago we were weighed down by stretched, saturated kit—wool-based apparel that doubled or even tripled in weight when the weat

IT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME AT just how much snobbery still lingers when it comes to mobile phone photography. In all truth, the majority of people would struggle to tell the difference between a picture shot on the latest iPhone to one shot on a goo

THERE ARE TIMES WE FEEL A STRONG IMPULSE TO expose the skeleton in the cupboard. You’ve likely experienced the pressure between yearning to reveal a secret while holding back from speaking. Keeping secrets creates complicated human dilemmas. I have t

WHO LIKES TO GO FAST? I HAVE both hands firmly in the air. There aren’t too many things that feel better than propelling yourself along at significant speed on a bicycle. Whilst I normally exist purely in road bike land, I occasionally dabble in time

AS WE APPROACHED THE FINISH line of the Snowy Classic, a fellow rider shared ‘I have to admit, my stomach doesn’t feel too good right now. Maybe I had too many gels?’ It’s a common scenario I find myself in during a group ride where once someone lear

(Makes 9 rice cakes) • 1 cup uncooked white risotto/arborio/sushi rice• 2.5 cups water• 1 apple, cored and chopped finely• 1/2 tsp cinnamon• 2 Tbsp sugar• 1 Tbsp brown sugar 1. Stovetop: Combine all ingredients in a pot, bring to the boil and cook

IT’S BEEN MORE THAN FIVE YEARS since I purchased my Focus Izalco Max from a local bike shop on Sydney’s north shore. My very first disc-brake road bike, we’ve since covered thousands of glorious kilometres together. We’ve explored far-flung corners o

UNLESS YOU’RE A CHAMPAGNE gravel seeker, you’re probably like me—on the lookout for outlandish routes. On the roughest trails you get to combat some extreme conditions. I’m no Bear Grylls, but this constant readiness to jump a snake or avoid some pos

THEY SAY THE BETTER IDEAS ARE the simplest, and this smart bike storage solution would certainly have to be up there as one of the best of them. Over the past few months we’ve been testing out three different wall-mounted storage options from Germany

UPGRADING YOUR WHEELS IS the quickest and easiest way to improve performance, but unfortunately it can also be one of the most expensive. A decent wheelset can easily equal or even exceed the value of the rest of the bike. On the flipside, many facto

WHAT: THE WONDERCROSS RIDE TYPE: GRAVEL, SINGLETRACK WHEN: SATURDAYS WHERE: MELBOURNE, VIC DISTANCE OF THE LOOP: 24KM ELEVATION: 165M AVERAGE SPEED: 18KPH START LOCATION: JETNIKOFF BICYCLES START TIME: 7.30AM FINISH LOCATION: THE HERBERT CAF

IT IS THE WORLD’S SECOND- oldest single-day race and one of Australia’s toughest road races—yes, it’s the feared and revered Melbourne to Warrnambool. One of my all-time highlights was riding last year’s 125-year anniversary M2W—I wrote about in Bicy

“HE’S DEMONSTRATED TIME AND again that he is a phenomenal talent. He has also shown that, in the challenging moments, he has a huge amount of courage to pick himself up, lay himself on the line and go again.” These were the words of deputy team princ