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Bikes of the Bunch, Features, Stinner, Tech, Tech features - December 20, 2019

Bikes of the Bunch: Stinner Aero Camino

For performance-minded road riders, the default bike of choice would seem to be made of carbon fiber, be aerodynamically shaped, and be fitted with disc brakes. It’s the direction everything is headed, after all, and where the lion’s share of R&D money is being spent. But Tom Anhalt is not like most performance-minded riders. In …

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Throwback Thursday: Sampson Stratics road pedals

It’ll come as a surprise to precisely no one that I’ve been a gear nerd almost since the day I became a cyclist in the late 1980s. Although I was thrilled with the experience of rolling across the earth, I was also enamored with the machine that allowed me to do so. I voraciously consumed …

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Nine of the best cycling phone cases and wallets versus the zip-lock bag

The mobile phone wasn’t even a sci-fi concept when cycling jerseys and their handy pockets were created. And while the cycling jersey pocket has remained much the same since then, the things we carry certainly have not. Phones are taller, slimmer, heavier, slipperier and more delicate than ever. And with all that has come a …

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Ten products I loved in 2019: Caley Fretz

I find these lists surprisingly difficult to put together. Not because of some dearth of products I use on a regular basis, and love dearly, but because the products I use most often tend to fade into the background. I ended up scrolling through photos of myself on Instagram to help remember what I actually …

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Competitions, Features, Tech, Tech features - December 6, 2019

Quiz: Can you guess the bike from the silhouette?

The recent wave of aero-designed road bikes with integrated cockpits and dropped seatstays has seen a flurry of suggestions that all bikes now look like a Specialized Tarmac. If that were true, the quiz you’re about to do would be downright impossible. Thankfully the latest bikes do offer nuances and differences in design and approach, …

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