Worth the weight

BMC say their new Teammachine SLR 01 is 16% lighter than before, while maintaining the same stiffness values. It’s “built for the pure climber”, but borrows from the aero-optimised Teammachine R 01 fo

Creating the lightest bikes possible has always been the goal in road and cross-country racing, and that tradition managed to seep its way into downhill too. Does anyone else remember pro racers runni

‘I used to be in this club called Nine to Five Racing,’ says Graham Shrive, Factor’s director of engineering. ‘As you can imagine, it was for racers who also had a normal job. With the Monza, that’s w

‘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

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

Canyon’s first Grizl gravel bike was launched in early 2021 while the bike industry was still riding the wave of its Covid-induced boom. It joined the company’s other gravel bike, the Grail, when the