Bicycling Australia

AS ANTHONY TAN DISCUSSES INSIDE THIS EDITION, REMCO Evenepoel was a two-year-old toddler when Alejandro Valverde started as a pro. Yes, two of 2022’s most exciting and impressive top-level riders are two decades apart in age. Within four weeks betwee

SOME COLUMNS AGO I suggested the CEOs of Rugby Australia and AusCycling should catch up to share notes on the health of their codes in this country. Why? To help each other out and forge a path to continued growth and success. Somehow I doubt they ca

Verve Cycling has announced the InfoCrank IC2. InfoCrank say it is the world’s most accurate power meter and, since the launch of the original model in 2015, it’s become the top choice power meter for many top-level riders. Verve Cycling has been dev

HE IS OUR MOST LOVED AND REVERED PRO RIDERS, and one of Australia’s greatest-ever cyclists. Here retiring legend Richie Porte goes one-on-one with Lee ‘Hollywood’ Turner. “It’s a strange time, in some ways my whole adult life has been around riding a

AFTER YEARS OF BUILD UP, MONTHS OF FEVERISH anticipation, and the final few weeks of absolute excitement, the eight-day cycling extravaganza that was the Wollongong World Championships eventually got underway. Sadly, the great numbers – widely promis

A true icon of the sport over the past decade or so, the new Protone Icon helmet features the latest technological advances in safety, ventilation, and aerodynamics. The fresh 2022 model updates its aesthetic for a modern look, while still maintainin

WHETHER IT’S A CHAMPAGNE shower standing on the podium after a race or enjoying a cold beer after a warm day on the bike with your mates, alcohol and cycling are synonymous with sporting success and performance. Having watched this year’s Grand Tours

HOW MANY TIMES HAS A GREAT ride been spoiled by an agonising cramp? Whether it occurs mid-ride, just after it or in the still of the night, hours after you’ve arrived home from a big day out. There’s nothing worse than the debilitating pain of a musc

IF YOU WERE BUYING A NEW CAR in the next 12 months would you choose petrol, diesel, hybrid or all-electric? Yes, it’s a big question and one anyone seriously considering a vehicle upgrade would have to think long and hard about. But first to the elep

I FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO DISCUSS why I like or dislike aspects of any particular chain lubricant without establishing some ground rules. If one wanted to wear out a chain as quickly as possible, one would squirt a liberal amount of sticky oil on the c

LIKE SO MANY CYCLISTS I WAS banging at the virtual doors to buy into that “iron cowboy” dream of bike packing, but I soon found that the bag & roll set up was more roll than rock. The main issue with bigger bike packing seat pack systems is that no m

CHALLENGE’S LATEST performance road tyre the Critirium RS is considered an “open tyre” and comes in 25mm and 27mm widths. They claim it to be 50 per cent more puncture resistant than its rivals as well as being one of the most grippy and fastest roll

FOUNDED IN SWITZERLAND IN 1867 with manufacturing now based in Taiwan, EDCO is a cycling brand with an interesting past. It’s also one I knew very little about when these carbon hoops first arrived on my doorstep back in early September. Some quick r

A RELATIVE NEWCOMER IN Australia, but certainly not to cycling, that’s the Ciovita story in a nutshell. Founded in South Africa in 2016, ‘Ciovita’ -–a combination of Italian and Latin words that translate to ‘Life in Motion’ – has indeed rapidly deve

PLANNING FOR ANY SORT OF holiday or getaway can be a very stressful and time consuming process, the variables of any trip are almost endless! And no, we’re not talking about late nights scrolling TripAdvisor or booking.com … or reading endless guest

AERO BIKES SURE AREN’T WHAT they used to be. In a category historically consumed by the brutal delivery of power and drag reduction, pretty much at any cost, an exciting new wave of aero frames are beginning to filter through. Slimmer and more nuance

FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOW ME ON Instagram (@_leeturner) you would have seen I was recently away overseas for six weeks in Europe. I could not go away that long and be without my bike. It was hard enough not putting on 10 kgs with all the buffet breakfasts

WHEN ALEJANDRO VALVERDE rode his first Grand Tour, the 2002 Vuelta a España, he was 22 years young. He didn’t do anything significant in the race. He didn’t even finish. Although he did manage to run fourth on the ninth stage around Córdoba before pu