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Bossi Bicycles, Features, Tech, Tech news, titanium - August 8, 2020

The titanium bike that thinks it’s a carbon aero bike: Bossi’s Strada SS

Some of the latest aluminium bikes now feature seamless lines, aero profiles and component integration that make them tough to distinguish from their more expensive composite counterparts. Clearly lessons first learned with carbon are now being applied to metal, and it’s a fascinating space to watch. Now, Sydney-based Bossi Bicycles is looking to take these …

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Bikes of the Bunch: Saved by the bike, a former soldier’s custom Venge

For years, Rocco Orlando was the tip of the spear. I first spotted Rocco’s bikes hanging off the line of hooks in our local Rapha shop. They’re hard to miss. There was a BMC, custom painted with pink highlights, and a Specialized Shiv, immaculately clean. A Colnago C64 hung around for a bit. And then …

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Specialized Recon 2.0 gravel shoe review: S-Works on a budget? Not quite

Specialized says its Recon 2.0 XC/gravel shoe is “inspired by S-Works Recon”, which suggests a fair bit of that flagship model’s DNA is included here, despite costing a fraction of the price. It looks the part and sounds good on paper, but if you’re hoping for a similar fit to the S-Works Recon, just with …

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Features, Tech, Tech news, Zwift - August 7, 2020

You can now steer everywhere in Zwift — but it’ll cost you

Popular online cycling platform Zwift debuted steering functionality in limited capacity on a single mountain bike-oriented course back in September, but it’s now added steering capability to all roads and courses in the Zwift ecosystem. According to Zwift, the addition of steering will make the virtual experience much more immersive as there will now be …

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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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