Thrill of the ryde

It’s the cyclist’s dream: jack in the corporate nine-to-five, load up the car, head for the high mountains and spend every day riding in the tyre tracks of Tour de France legends. For most, that’s how

Western consumers have grown used to the idea that few of the products we use are manufactured at home. Indeed, ‘we don’t make things anymore’ is a refrain (or a lament) often heard in discussions of

There are some good eggs in the bike industry, and Jake Ireland from Sprung Suspension is one of them. He’s always keen to help with my suspension-related woes, working his magic on my longtermers’ fo

The UCI should allow the separation of pro-race bikes from mass-market bikes. That way, the pros would enjoy better-suited bikes and so would we. At the minute, even the most dedicated race machine is

rgonaut’s RM3 has achieved renown for that most mercurial of characteristics: ride quality. Cyclist’s own James Spender dubbed the bike the best he’d ever ridden back in issue 135 – something he maint

Times have changed for ace Ducati mechanic and restorer Ray Petty . He shows us round his London workshop, full of Italian goodness from all eras