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We need to talk about how crazy these eeBrakes are
[SCENE: A house in suburban Melbourne. The sun beats down outside. A baby cries in the next room. A bicycle-cycling journalist idly browses the internet before he is suddenly rendered mute, immobile, awestruck. His eyes widen, trying to drink in everything all at once. There is, you see, a colourful new limited edition brake from …
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Tech Round-Up #11: New gear from Silca, Scott, 7mesh, and more
Tech Round-Ups provide a look at some of the gear that comes across our desks here at CyclingTips. Sometimes it’s products we’re doing long-term tests on, other times it’s stuff we’re stoked on but don’t have time to fully review. And, sometimes it’s a wild innovation someone sent us unsolicited. In this edition, we take …
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Remortgage the house: Assos launches new winter collection with $725 jacket
Assos has announced its new collection for winter 2020, and while the Equipe RS family looks to be as well-made and innovative as is usually the case for the Swiss brand, it’s also even more outrageously expensive than usual. Assos has organised the new garments into a layering system (as you should all be doing …
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Rapha’s new Windproof Explore Pullover is for riding. And not riding. Maybe both?
Rapha just debuted its new Windproof Explore Pullover, straddling the line between riding gear and casual gear in a way that’s either brilliant or confused. With a new style that’s more akin to a high street sweater than a traditional winter jacket, in many ways this piece of clothing perfectly sums up where many want …
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25 tons of plastic down, a long way to go: Trek’s new sustainable packaging
Trek’s packaging materials for its complete bikes and frames have historically incorporated quite a lot of bubble wrap and other non-recyclable plastic — and given the number of bikes the Wisconsin company sells year after year, that amounts to a literal mountain of waste. Starting earlier this year, Trek quietly began modifying the packaging for …
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