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Favero Assioma Duo power meter pedal review: simply great

Power meter pedals have been around a fair while, but only in recent years have they got to a point where I’d want them on my own bike. Gone are the separate external pods which make installation tricky, or the bulky pedal bodies ready to scrape the tarmac – now there are a handful of …

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Roka Matador sunglass review: A polarizing shape, but super fit and optics

I’ve had a soft spot for Oakley ever since my first bike shop job in the early 1990s when I bought my first pair of (blissfully discounted) M Frames. With little exception, I have continued to be impressed with the company’s eyewear ever since: the superb optics, the vast array of carefully tuned tints, the …

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The new Specialized Tarmac SL7 review: The Venge is dead

Take a Specialized Venge and a Tarmac SL6 and squish them together. This is what you get. The underlying promise of the all-new Tarmac SL7 is that it’s as light and sharp as the old Tarmac SL6 and as aerodynamic as a Venge. No compromises, the Specialized marketing materials shout. The SL7 is, they say, …

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Cervelo Caledonia 5 first-ride review: Where road bikes are headed

In what’s effectively the fruit of adultery from the S5 aero sprinter and the Aspero gravel racer, the new Cervelo Caledonia 5 sits in a surprisingly uncrowded market segment. It’s a bike for those who are forever trying to stuff the biggest tyre possible into their race machine or turn their gravel race bike into …

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2021 BMC Teammachine SLR01: The fourth generation revealed and reviewed

In its 10-year existence, BMC’s Teammachine SLR01 has won the biggest of races: the Tour de France (Cadel Evans), the Road World Championships (Philippe Gilbert) and the Olympic Games road race (Greg Van Avermaet ). Since the beginning, the SLR01 was never the lightest, stiffest or most aerodynamic race bike; rather the Swiss company always …

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Favero Assioma Duo power meter pedal review: simply great

Roka Matador sunglass review: A polarizing shape, but super fit and optics

The new Specialized Tarmac SL7 review: The Venge is dead

Cervelo Caledonia 5 first-ride review: Where road bikes are headed

2021 BMC Teammachine SLR01: The fourth generation revealed and reviewed

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