Bicycling Australia

WATTS, THEY’RE A LITTLE LIKE CASH. NUMBERS MOST OF US have to work hard for and not something we want to let go to waste. Simply put, Watts are a measure of how much effort we are putting in when on the bike. A value the vast majority of us want more

I'm old fashioned in that I used to write letters to the editors of magazines, seems can't do that so much these days, too slow and hand writing – so yesterday! However, I do feel so very compelled to express my deep gratitude for the feature on Type

‘The most realistic, intelligent and effective smart trainer on Earth.’ It’s a bold claim but take one look at the Wattbike Atom then read a sample of the online reviews and you’ll be hard pressed not to agree. The Wattbike Atom, now available in Aus

At the start of the 2019 season there was only one young rider everyone wanted to talk about – and it wasn’t Mathieu van der Poel. Now to be fair, 19-year-old Belgian prodigy Remco Evenepoel has made a solid start to his pro career with Deceuninck-Qu

Grande Boucle begins in the city where the sport’s most winning rider spent his childhood, for we may only be part way through a dynasty of the most prolific Grand Tour team in history. That barring incident, last year’s podium placegetters will be p

LONG, CHALLENGING, CONSISTENT CLIMBING ... there’s no better way to not only check your form but improve overall ability. But the problem is this ... those long, consistent climbs tend to be a long, long way from Australia. The good news is that with

Tucked away in a side street in Bright, this gem of a café / restaurant is very popular and serves a unique modern Native American style of food. The burgers are brilliant, share plates abound and the beer menu is extensive. Don’t leave town without

SPENDING SEVEN DAYS IN SOUTH KOREA'S CAPITAL IS A fascinating experience. Given a whole week is way too long to be off the bike, a ride with the locals was one of the top priorities of the trip (er ... apart from attending my brother's wedding). Emai

IMAGINE YOURSELF AT THE TOP OF A BIG HILL. Before you stretches out a long, straight roadway. This road has no cross roads, no traffic and is finished in good, smooth pavement. In other words we can go as fast as we want for as long as we need. To ma

AERO AND CYCLING ... IT SEEMS THE TWO ARE virtually synonymous so far as the retail product and accessory markets go. But how important is ‘getting aero’, is aero everything, and should it be a critical consideration for us mere mortals (read non-pro

THERE WAS A TIME WHERE IF YOU WANTED TO GO fast on the road, a steep angled aggressive frame was your only option. What we now think of as ‘race bikes’ are getting stiffer, faster, lighter and stronger, but so are every other category of drop bar roa

THERE’S AN ALL TOO OFTEN indefinable line of threshold pain and suffering that lies between cracking a long climb and it cracking you, be that mentally, physically, or both. There is no definitive line between a climb being considered a power climb o

WHEN VISITING FLECHE CYCLE Repairs in Wahroonga just north of Sydney, we couldn’t help but notice a stunning looking Klein in Gid Mason’s professional workshop. FIRST UP GID, TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THIS BIKE AND HOW IT CAME TO BE IN YOUR COLLECTION?

HAVING A BABY SHOULD NOT mean the end of any career, let alone professional cycling. That’s the message from 2015 World Road Champion, 2012 Olympic silver medallist and reigning Commonwealth road race champion Elizabeth Mary Deignan, the 30-year-old

BIKE COMMUTING IS ON THE rise, thanks to better-planned ‘end of trip’ facilities. Businesses large and small are responding to a call for better facilities for employees, including what is known as ‘end of trip’ facilities, for bike commuters. New de

It seems the number one reason that puts bike commuters off is their personal safety. In many cities in Australia there is poor infrastructure like bike paths that continually start and stop. This coupled with impatient drivers and narrow roads are a

PUT SIMPLY, THE VENTUM NS1 was the most admired, talked about and commented upon bicycle ever pushed through our Surry Hills offices. As the subtle, stealthy and super classy ENVE freewheel clicked its way across the carpet, out from their offices an

IT’S A WELL-KNOWN FACT THAT Bianchi’s top-level offering, the XR4 Disc, is near identical in the showroom as it is on the start line of any WorldTour race. Add a race number, tubular tyres, sponsors’ decals, and the bike you wheel out of the local bi

TOO MUCH SHOE FOR THE DOLLAR? There may be no such thing for the cyclist looking to upgrade to a new pair of cycling kicks, but for management of Australian-based footwear company Bont, they may be starting to think this way. Over the past month or s

OUT OF THE BOX THE PREVAIL II has quite a familiar shape and, whilst its profile has certainly been streamlined over the years, it still bears many of the visual hallmarks of its predecessors. However upon closer examination, this is no ordinary Prev

CONTINENTAL IS A GIANT IN THE tyre business and number one supplier of tyres in the WorldTour. Their Grand Prix race tyre lineage extends back to the 1980s, having gone through significant evolutions with the GP3000 and GP4000. It is no surprise then

WHAT? ‘NARROWS’ RIDE WHERE? PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA POST-RIDE? TELEGRAM CAFE, PERTH IT’S 5.55AM ON A TUESDAY. PERTH’S fastest riders are gathering under the Narrows Bridge for the bi-weekly smash fest – the “Narrows” group ride. In the Profession

BUT ALL THAT CHANGED IN 2018 when the Northern Sydney Cycling Club rider became the first man to seize the NSW Road Premiership in both the U23 and Open categories in the same season. While he didn’t win an individual round, Calder’s year was a story

JUST UNDER ONE HUNDRED DAYS. That’s all it took for Sir Dave Brailsford to keep the coffers full at the world’s most moneyed and simultaneously despised team. On December 12 last year, when Sky announced their withdrawal from the sport, effective the