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Enve has always emphasised that it’s the interaction between a bike’s frame and components, and how the rider fits on top of them, that ultimately determines aerodynamic efficiency. So it’s little surprise that the US brand, best known for its wheels

$199, kask.com The Sintesi is something of a marketing breakthrough for the cycling industry: a helmet Kask says can be used for any sort of riding. Shock horror! It’s unusual in 2023 for a brand to deliver something that can be used for road, gravel

Ernest Hemingway famously said that Paris was a moveable feast. In 2024, that feast is moving roughly 700km south to the French Riviera for the Tour de France’s first finish outside the nation’s capital. It’s also the first time since 1975 that the f

Cyclist: You collapsed after the first stage of last year’s Volta a Catalunya. Can you talk us through what happened? Sonny Colbrelli: My heart stopped for three minutes. I was effectively dead on the road, and I am just super-lucky to still be here

$100, maxxis.com Maxxis is known as one of the best and most prolific tyre brands in the world. The Taiwan company was founded in 1967 as a bicycle tyre manufacturer and has since excelled in providing rubber for pretty much anything with an engine.

‘Paris is not very far and I hope, next week, to make an entrance there which would reward me for the painful efforts that I have made during this time. I got a reprieve for my 28 regimental days, which I should be doing right now. I would be happy t

Ergogenic substances enhance physical performance, but not all are born equal, nor legal. Caffeine and electrolytes have the potential to be ergogenic, for example, but so do EPO and testosterone. No surprise that permissible ergogenic substances hav

To us it looks like a mushroom, but the story of the Portobello shines a light on the very nature of humanity itself. Once upon a time the common mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, was eaten in all its forms, but when a perfectly white variant was commerci

What exactly is a plant-based diet? Simply put, a plant-based diet is any diet that focuses consistently on foods primarily from plants, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, legumes and beans. There are different interpretations, however.

Cyclist: You founded Technogym in the early 1980s (your early 20s!). What was your favourite way to stay in shape then, and how has that evolved over time? Nerio Alessandri: In the 80s, the fitness industry was not sophisticated. The first gyms were

It’s a view I won’t be forgetting anytime soon: clear blue skies, 360-degree sea vistas, and thousands of cyclists riding across a gigantic suspension bridge, supporting towers stretching a hundred metresplus into the air. A marvel of Japanese engine

To download this route, scan the QR code or visit strava.com/3028897143189609852. Imabari is the logical starting point for riding the Shimanami Kaido, and the start town for the biennial gran fondo. Keep in mind that outside of the event, you cannot

Ehime Prefecture is one of four provinces on the island of Shikoku, itself the smallest of the four main islands that make up Japan, and is located around 600km south-west of Tokyo. Within Japan, Ehime is known for its hot springs (Dōgo Onsen, in the

It had been a busy season for Ellen van Dijk. The Dutch rider began 2022 on a high, with the rainbow jersey of World Champion on her shoulders, having taken the individual time-trial world title just a few months earlier in the Flanders region of Bel

‘I experiment because everything interests me. There is just too much to learn, but I think about perfection in everything I do; it is always in my mind. I think about Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel. If you spend a lifetime at the bench and you

Location Victorian High Country Start Harrietville Finish Hotham Heights Road Great Alpine Road (B500) Mount Hotham looms large over the Ovens Valley and pretty much all other climbs in the Victorian High Country. The 30km hors catégorie climb featur

When it comes to cycling performance, stiffer means better. Or at least that’s what the bike industry marketeers would have us believe. They may have a point, although just what the word ‘stiffness’ means in bicycle engineering is somewhat more compl

The Giant TCR has been such a successful road bike over the past 25 years that it’s easy to forget just how radical its design was when it first launched, and just how much influence it has had on road bike manufacturing ever since. Take a look at yo

Turkey’s southwest coast is just the kind of place I would come for a holiday. Within a stone’s throw of Dalaman airport are beautiful beaches on the crystal waters of the Aegean, lively resorts bustling with bars, restaurants and nightlife, and site

When BMC first properly committed to the gravel niche, it released a bike somewhat out of left field. Despite the brand’s strong road heritage, the radical design of its first gravel bike, the URS, looked to have more in common with BMC’s cross-count

A fair amount has changed since I rode the original Argonaut back in 2019, although as Argonaut founder Ben Farver explains, the RM3 is more evolution than redesign. ‘We increased the diameter of the chainstays and went from independent stays to more

A year or two ago it looked as if aero road bikes were going the way of the dodo. Race bikes were becoming all-rounders – light enough to hit the UCI’s minimum weight limit but with enough aero cues to make them fast on the flats as well as uphill. A

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway* bet his literary rival F Scott Fitzgerald that he could write a six-word story that would make the reader cry. He won the bet with this: ‘For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.’ I have my own six-word story that would