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2019 Tour de France, Features, Tech - July 11, 2019

Video: Bikes of the 2019 Tour de France, part one

At the Tour de France, the devil is in the mechanical detail – the custom parts and personal preferences of the riders, the 3D printed TT bars, and the sheer labour involved in the new era of road bike integration. In the first tech video instalment of this year’s Tour de France, tech editor James Huang …

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Team Ineos swaps to Lightweights for climbing stages

The decision to switch to these particular wheels today, when wheel tech has come so far, is interesting for a few reasons, some technical and some financial

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Giant, Tech, Tech news - July 10, 2019

Giant Contend 2020 entry-level road range: Overhauled and more versatile

While top-tier bikes are becoming more expensive, the opposite end of the spectrum offers surprisingly good bikes for not a lot of money. Case in point, the overhauled 2020 Giant Contend SL Disc and all-new Giant Contend AR ranges which have prices starting at just US$1,000 / AU$1,399. Here’s a quick look at what’s new. …

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BMC Unrestricted URS 2020 first-ride review: Gravel bike or MTB?

BMC URS TWO Unrestricted 2020 gravel bike

It wasn’t long ago that we thought of gravel as a fringe discipline of road cycling, a discipline where niche brands like Salsa Cycles had a near monopoly. Now you’ll be hard pressed to find a single global bike brand that doesn’t have a bike dedicated to gravel. BMC only recently dipped its toes into …

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Pro bike: Rohan Dennis’ Merida Scultura Team-E — the outlier

Amongst a modern backdrop of ultra-aero megabikes with integrated and airfoil-shaped everything, and pseudo-aero “all rounder” bikes that are slightly lighter — but just as “system engineered” as their stablemates — the Merida Scultura Team-E of Bahrain-Merida rider Rohan Dennis stands out like that one person who stubbornly hangs on to flared jeans after everyone …

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