Bicycling Australia

RECENTLY FUELLING UP MY VEHICLE, I WAS SHOCKED TO PUMP IN twenty litres of diesel for the grand total of a touch over $50! Seriously, I’ve never seen the dollar numbers tick over so quickly … and the litres flow so slowly. ‘Fifty bucks for twenty lit

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN when we reflect, pause a little and recharge for a full-on 2023 … I know that’s my plan! With ongoing challenges, many of them beyond our wildest dreams, it is indeed hopeful that 2023 will be a calmer year and perhaps a

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SNOWY MOUNTAINS, NSW

WHEN BRODIE CHAPMAN WAS A CHILD RIDING her mountain bike in the secluded bushland in her hometown of Mount Glorious about an hour north west of Brisbane, she never dreamt of becoming a professional road cyclist. This is partly because 20 years ago no

THE FIRST ‘REAL’ TOUR DOWN UNDER IN SEVERAL years, top-level professional racing will finally return to Adelaide for the 2023 TDU in January. Completely disrupted by COVID-19, the last real Tour Down Under was held in 2020, just a few weeks before th

IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY I WAS LINING UP TO ride the inaugural Bowral Classic in 2016. Back then it certainly felt like it was the start of something new, particularly for New South Wales. This year, the event felt more like a staple in the suite of e

LONG GONE ARE THE DAYS OF PLAYING ‘SPOT THE Aussie’ in the professional peloton. Currently, around 40 Australian men and women are signed to UCI WorldTour squads for 2023 – and it may nudge even higher by season’s end. Of course, while they may share

GERMAN BORN AND VIRTUALLY NOMADIC endurance cyclist Jonas Deichmann is one of most experienced and accomplished ultra long distance riders and record breakers around. For the past number of years Jonas has basically been living the dream, or at least

BIKE REVIEWS, BOTH IN PRINT AND ONLINE, ARE typically the most popular content created by the wider Bicycling Australia team. And understandably so … a new bike is a big investment, often coming with a high four to low five figure price tag. Obviousl

WE LIVE IN AN AGE WHEN everyone is told that they can be whatever and whoever they dream of being; that the world is our oyster, we just need to believe and make it happen. At least, some people say this. Anyone that lives with their eyes open can se

THE INDOOR TRAINER MARKET IS a pretty dynamic place at the moment. With the boom of indoor training software over the last few years there has been a huge increase in people regularly using indoor trainers. Correspondingly, the depth and variety in t

CERVELO’S ORIGINAL SOLOIST was released way back in 2002 and quickly established itself as a bike to be taken very seriously. Ridden by high profile pros such as Team CSC – Cancellara, Voigt, O’Grady, Basso, the Schlecks etc – the bike quickly gained

SO FAR AS NEW CYCLING products go, fair dinkum we’ve seen them all. The Bicycling Australia inbox is pretty well a storage tank for press releases detailing all manner of the latest and greatest gear … parts and accessory no one can ride or live with

DESCENDED FROM ITALIAN rubbery greatness, custom tailored from decades of experience in the dust and mud of the biggest cyclo cross races in the world, and then hand crafted in Thailand; Challenge is very much a premium tyre brand whose excellence is

OF THE FOUR WINDS, A southerly change is typically the least welcome. And not just by cyclists, but sailors and no doubt many other outdoors types as well. Southerlies can be strong, can often carry rain, usually hit hard, and deliver sudden and noti

COINCIDING WITH THE FINAL arrival of warm weather – and, ironically enough, a perfectly matching black Factor Ostro ‘race gravel’ bike – the new Kask Protone certainly appeared at the right time. An updated version to an all-time classic road cycling

THIS ISSUE, OUR QUEST TO REVEAL THE CLASSIC ‘MUST-DO’ rides in Australia takes a social turn – or, more specifically, a social media turn. We threw open the conversation to readers everywhere to share their favourite rides via Instagram, Facebook and

THE TOUR DOWN UNDER PROPER is back for 2023, and I’m pumped. It is one of the best weeks of the year and I’ve always said it’s like ’schoolies’ for cyclists. I’ve made the TDU pilgrimage to Adelaide 13 times and have had so much fun each time. I’ll n

FOR THOSE OF US WHO BEGAN their cycling story from early childhood, most grew up with the notion that professional cyclists were akin to superheroes. Especially from non cycling-centric countries like Australia, Great Britain and America, the ‘Euro D