Reviews
A group ride can be the highlight of the week: a few hours of moving quickly, talking nonsense at the cafe, and pretending the final climb was “controlled”. It…
A bicycle can look like a beautifully engineered machine until the chain starts making a noise like cutlery in a tumble dryer. For riders with zero mechanical…
Few moments in professional cycling compress so much drama into such a short space as a bunch sprint. After five hours of racing, riders arrive at the final…
Strava segments are meant to turn an ordinary road, climb or trail into a small sporting contest. They give riders a target, a leaderboard and a neat way to…
A winter training camp sounds wonderfully professional until the practical details arrive. There is the matter of work, family, weather, accommodation, bike…
For a long time, my cycling life revolved around a number. Watts sat at the centre of every ride, training block, coffee conversation and mildly competitive…
Age is a tidy answer to a messy sporting question. Every result has an age beside it, every leaderboard can be sorted from youngest to oldest, and every rider…
Cyclists build elaborate hierarchies around helmets, jerseys, pedals and bike fit, then leave socks to the bottom of the laundry drawer. That is a poor…
There's a particular kind of misery that only Australian cyclists truly understand. You wake up in Melbourne, check the BOM radar, and watch a perfect teardrop…
Every sport has its quirks, and cycling might just be the most superstitious of them all. From the elite peloton grinding up Alpine passes to the weekend…