First rides

Before I go any further, I’ve got to address that price. The best part of £12k (once you include the Bosch PowerMore range extender supplied with my bike) is a huge amount to pay for a ‘push bike’, ev

When Rival eTap AXS launched in 2021, it was the first electronic groupset at the third-tier level. Shimano responded with 105 Di2 a year later, bringing lower weight and a more affordable price. SRAM

In the second instalment of Group Think, we turn our minds to race bikes. The all-road bikes featured in part one of this series (see issue 164) may be hogging the spotlight currently, but race bikes

Endurance bikes have switched up a gear for 2025. The trend towards all-road bikes that we’ve seen over the past few years seems to be over, thanks to the emergence of fast, lightweight, all-road-capa

Whittling this group of eight bikes down to just three was a mammoth task. Each one is excellent in its own right, so when it came to making the call, we really had to nitpick the details. It’s fair t

Electric mountain bikes are becoming more and more powerful as advances in motor and battery technology push their development ever further. However, with some e-MTBs now offering up to 1,000W of peak