Biketest steel vs alloy hardtails

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

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

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

After whittling down the gravel bikes one by one, only two are left to duke it out – the Mondraker Arid Carbon RR and the Parlee Taos, both tested in SRAM Force spec (the Taos also uses X0 Eagle AXS T

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

Wilier Rave SLR ID2 £9,200 (read full review next issue) The SLR ID2 is designed for speed, with aero tube shapes and a widened down tube that shields water bottles from the wind, plus a racy geometry