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No.22’s new travel bike couplers: lighter and more seamless than the rest
Travelling with a bike can be pain. Once it’s packed up, you often have to choose the transport that fits your bike, wait in oversized baggage queues, sometimes pay oversized fees, and hire larger cars. For these reasons, splittable travel bikes have found a successful niche. The goal of a travel bike is to ride …
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Bernal is waiting until ‘the right moment,’ and there could be a few ahead
Nine stages into the Tour de France, defending champ Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) is 21 seconds off the lead. In the four stages so far at this race that could reasonably be called mountainous, Bernal has looked … fine. Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team have looked better, which is why the Slovenian is wearing …
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What these charts can tell us about the first week of the Tour de France
We’re nine stages into the 2020 Tour de France and the riders have now enjoyed their first rest day. Before the race resumes on Tuesday though, it’s worth taking stock of how the race has unfolded thus far. Thanks to the work of VeloClub member Cam Harris, we’ve got the perfect way of doing so. …
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TDF rest-day testing, Ackermann wins at Tirreno-Adriatico: Daily Tour Digest
(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hi there CyclingTips readers, It was a rest day at the Tour de France on Monday which gave everyone a chance to stop, catch their breath, and prepare themselves for the two weeks ahead. It wasn’t an entirely restful day though – …
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Factor Ostro VAM: The exclusive first-ride review
Factor, a manufacturer focussed on producing performance carbon bikes, calls it the road bike quiver-killer. A disc-equipped aero bike that can be built to the UCI weight limit but that’s comfortable enough to race at Paris-Roubaix. Or put another way, most road bikes are traditionally grouped into three segments. You have the lightweight climbing bike, …
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