Steel crazy after all these years

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

It’s hard to find a component that hasn’t been reincarnated in carbon, with its impressive strength-to-weight ratio being beloved by riders wanting to shed a few grams. This composite material is made

With the mounting pressure from US tariffs on bikes made in Asia, is the cycling industry heading for an era of more home-grown manufacturing? If so, Italy is in a fine place to bring more production

‘A murderous climber, always the same sustained rhythm, a little machine with a lower gear than the rest, turning his legs at a speed that would break your heart, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.’ So

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

Too fast to fettle: the Doc isn’t a stickler for set-ups