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Bicycle Network’s new 2023 ride, The Weekender, is the perfect opportunity to escape the hustle and bustle of daily life and experience Gippsland, Victoria on a fully supported cycling adventure. The 185km ride is split over two days, with a 115km lo

Editor Adam Scroggy Assistant Editor Jack Lynch Creative Director Stephanie Goh Designer Joe Ferrara Contributors Tam Allenby, Sam Challis, Simon Esjay James, Katy Madgwick, Giles Belbin, Michael Donlevy, Felix Lowe, James Witts, Pete Goding, Mike Ma

The Profil Max FP65 Z-Switch is the latest floor pump from French accessories specialist Zéfal, and although it sits at the top of the brand’s range it doesn’t include any newfangled features like tubeless compressor chambers or Bluetooth pressure ga

There is nothing in the known universe that joins the dots between health, recovery and performance as comprehensively as sleep. It is vital and irreplaceable. No facsimile or pharmaceutical has yet been found that yields the same tangible dividend o

Thule was kind enough to provide the boys with its OutWay Platform bike rack system for this trip. Esjay, whose car the rack was mounted to, was a big fan. ‘The OutWay was super easy to put on,’ he said. ‘I just bought a new car and hadn’t installed

The new Wahoo Elemnt Roam is everything you want in a bike computer. It’s the brand’s most powerful and accurate device yet, and thanks to excellent smart navigation is perfect for adventure riding. As a long-time user of Wahoo products (my Elemnt fr

The year of colonial settlement in the Wee Jasper area. Of course, the area’s history goes back a lot further than that – these are the traditional lands of the Ngunnawal people. Metres of elevation gain on this Big Ride. It’s not a massive number bu

By car, Yass is easily accessible from Sydney, and only a stone’s throw from Canberra; you could even hit the best parts of this loop starting and finishing in the nation’s capital, if you were so inclined. Given prior time constraints, we Sydneyside

Born on 2 April in Asmara, Eritrea Wins the African Continental Junior Road Race, time-trial and team time-trial titles with Eritrea. Beats Remco Evenepoel to a stage of leading Belgian junior race, Aubel-Thimister-Stavelot Takes his first pro win as

‘Especially this year, I was going crazy for it. Even before leaving for Asmara, I had to buy four or five pots in Belgium. Even my wife is crazy for it. If there is no Biscoff in the morning, it’s not good!’ ‘Do I like them? No. I really like to spe

Wireless connectivity means many components are now capable of communicating with each other, and there’s still plenty of scope for integrating electronics into bicycle design. For example, your bike computer could control your gears, or your e-bike

While inventors, including Thomas Edison, experimented with creating carbon fibre, it wasn’t until the 1960s that the UK Ministry of Defence was able to patent a reliable process for making these high-strength fibres. Once formed into shape, carbon f

Before Nick Sanders discovered the power of PR - in one case reporting for BBC Radio Manchester from the back of a tandem piloted by his girlfriend (pictured) – his goals were more modest. In 1981, aged 23, he set off to ride around the world without

The key to Nick and Dick Crane’s epic 58-day ride to ‘The Pole of Inaccessibility’ was ‘marginal gains’ and travelling as light as possible. The knee-length salopettes they wore at the start in Bangladesh (pictured) would be worn ‘all day, every day…

Bike BMC Timemachine 01 Two, 56cm, 8.18kg (7.90kg stock) Wheels Zipp 808 Firecrest Helmet Giro Eclipse Spherical, 308g Glasses SunGod Airas, 33g Speedsuit Le Col x McLaren Project Aero, 189g Socks Rule 28, 56g Shoes Suplest Aero, EU45, 626g Total kit

Stage 6, 2007 Tour de France, 199.5km, Semur-en-Auxois to Bourg-en-Bresse Making his second Tour appearance, Wiggins attacked 2km into the stage on a roasting hot day. At the time, it was seen as a tribute to Tom Simpson on the 40th anniversary of hi

Kilometres ridden in Bourlon’s record-breaking solo breakaway Average speed in kmh of Bourlon’s breakaway ride Minutes spent by Bourlon on his 1947 break Days spent by Bourlon as a PoW during the Second World War Years since Bourlon’s 1947 stage win

After many years of waiting, things are moving swiftly with the delivery of fully separated bike lanes on St Kilda Rd, Melbourne. The $30.5M project will completely remake the boulevard from Linlithgow Ave at the Arts Centre to Charnwood Ave south of

Carcassonne has its own small airport or you can fly to the much larger and better connected Toulouse-Blagnac, an hour up the A61. From the finish in Bagnères-de-Luchon, it’s 90 minutes back to Toulouse airport. Trains are also an option. Cyclist sta

If extreme light weight is your thing, the $12,999 Giant TCR Advanced SL 0 is made of the same composite blend as the Propel, but less aggressive tube shaping makes the frameset more than 150g lighter. The $5,200 Propel Advanced 1 build is largely th

At the top of the Ultimate tree is the CFR Di2 ($13,199), built with Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 and DT Swiss Mon Chasséral wheels, which weighs a claimed 6.3kg for a size medium. At the other end of the range is the Ultimate CF SL 7 at just $3,349. It come