Why your next bike should be aluminium

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

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

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

‘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

Who doesn’t love buying new bits and bobs for their pride and joy? Whether it’s the promise of performance gains, the thought of your rides being even more enjoyable than they already are or, at the v

As gravel riding evolves and diverges, the off-road racing scene has been no exception. That means the bikes have been changing at quite a pace too. We’ve assembled three great examples of cutting-edg