Bike'25 o the year trail

Whittling it down It’s been a big year for bike launches, and, as ever, the team across Cycling Plus and BikeRadar.com have been hard at work to bring you the best buying advice and reviews throughout

For this year’s Bike of the Year test, we decided to focus on just one category – trail bikes. But if these mid-travel, wholly muscle-powered machines aren’t your thing, don’t fear – many of the inclu

Here at MBUK, we ride an absurd number of bikes every year – it’s part of the job. But testing a bike for review is very different from putting your own money on the line. So, what would our team buy

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

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

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