Column: Can a road biker dig gravel?

Column: Can a road biker dig gravel?

A hardcore roadie takes a spin at riding where the road ends and the adventure begins.

The Grinduro Returns for 2016

The Grinduro Returns for 2016

Take a gravel road race, add a mountain bike-style enduro and you’ll get the Grinduro. “One long loop of road and dirt, where finishing times aren’t based on overall loop time, but timed segments.” Returning for its second year – and back in Quincy, California –…

Want coffee? Cover up your lycra…

Want coffee? Cover up your lycra…

In a blow to cyclists, one New Zealand hotel cafe has dictated a restrictive dress code.

Rated: Gore Bike Wear ‘One Gore-Tex Active’ jacket

Rated: Gore Bike Wear ‘One Gore-Tex Active’ jacket

Can Gore-Tex's new wonder fabric keep our tester dry – from both rain and sweat?

Review: Kinesis Phase

Review: Kinesis Phase

Kinesis' new Hardcore Hardtail in a very modern style

Review: eXotic Carbon bar and carbon Ti seatpost

Review: eXotic Carbon bar and carbon Ti seatpost

Tom tries and tests some bargain bling

Introducing the ONE Gore-Tex Active Bike Jacket

Introducing the ONE Gore-Tex Active Bike Jacket

Gore Bike Wear has just launched a new jacket with Permanent Beading Technology.

A Message From Tom Hill

A Message From Tom Hill

Some thoughts from our Deputy Editor Jenn's husband. Jenn died of Cancer on the 16th October 2015

SRAM Guide Ultimate

SRAM Guide Ultimate

A look at SRAM's top-end brake set, the Guide Ultimate

Lapierre 2016: The new Zesty XM and AM.

Lapierre 2016: The new Zesty XM and AM.

Part two of Tom's report from Morzine: it's new improved Zesty time!

Lapierre 2016: Overvolt e-bikes

Lapierre 2016: Overvolt e-bikes

Part one of Tom's report from the Lapierre launch in Morzine – hold onto your seats, it's e-bike time!

Tom: “We are family.”

Tom: “We are family.”

Blood is thicker than chain lube

Tom: “Mountain Time”

Tom: “Mountain Time”

You can wax lyrical all you like about your doorstep riding, but sometimes only the mountains will do. Tom sets his sights north…

Tom: “Tick Tock”

Tom: “Tick Tock”

From wage slave to trail fiend in the space of 90 minutes

Received: Lynskey ProCross Frame & Endurance Fork

Received: Lynskey ProCross Frame & Endurance Fork

The American-made Lynskey ProCross Frameset is a beautiful study in titanium, and our man Tom Hill gets to spend some time reviewing it. Here's his initial impression.

Mavic Stratos Convertible

Mavic Stratos Convertible

Detachable sleeves, really? Yes really, did Mavic's Stratos Convertible jacket perform

G-Form

G-Form

G-Form pads put to the test

Polaris Pulse

Polaris Pulse

Another packable jacket tested by the grinder team

Showers Pass Double Century EX

Showers Pass Double Century EX

Packable jackets go through the Grinder team

RaceFace Indy jersey

RaceFace Indy jersey

Looking for a short sleeve riding jersey? Well look no further, how did RaceFace's Indy Jersey fair

Race Face Women’s Khyber

Race Face Women’s Khyber

How did RaceFace's Womens Kyber pad fair?

Gore Bike Wear Oxygen 2 GT AS

Gore Bike Wear Oxygen 2 GT AS

A jacket for the riding in lycra crew

Singular Swift.

Singular Swift.

If you strip everything back to basics, the basics had better be good.

Showers Pass Skyline Softshell Jacket

Showers Pass Skyline Softshell Jacket

Why take two jackets into heavy showers when this one will do?

Lake MX331 Cross cyclocross shoe

Lake MX331 Cross cyclocross shoe

Very good at what they do. Only you know if what they do is what you want

Fizik Gobi XM K:ium – Highlighter edition

Fizik Gobi XM K:ium – Highlighter edition

If you have a Gobi-shaped bum and like retina-burning colours, then this is probably the saddle for you

M:Part Single Ring XC chain device

M:Part Single Ring XC chain device

A good value proposition, and essentially does what it is designed to.

Lumicycle Explorer Enduro

Lumicycle Explorer Enduro

A reliable light that does the simple stuff very well

CUBE Action Team Shorts

CUBE Action Team Shorts

Practical everyday riding shorts with love/hate Euro looks.

Charge Scoop saddle

Charge Scoop saddle

A well made and comfortable saddle that happens to suit my bum.

Altura Mayhem Printed

Altura Mayhem Printed

Decent value all-rounders - even if you don't use the liner shorts.

Wildcat Gear Tiger seatpack and Mountain Lion handlebar harness

Wildcat Gear Tiger seatpack and Mountain Lion handlebar harness

UK made gear for Bikepackers and off road tourer's alike

Endura MTR Windproof jersey

Endura MTR Windproof jersey

A rather special jersey-with-extras.

inov-8 Race Elite 20 litre backpack

inov-8 Race Elite 20 litre backpack

Purpose-built biking hydration packs are all well and good but if it's minimalism you're after, look to the fell runners for inspiration

Morvelo DriRelease t-shirt

Morvelo DriRelease t-shirt

T-shirt rides rock. Here's a nice top to do them in.

Gore Bike Wear Countdown Windstopper Softshell hoodie

Gore Bike Wear Countdown Windstopper Softshell hoodie

A softshell with a hood (and an unfeasibly long name). Rejoice! For it is warm and cosy...

The North Face Dirt Track jacket

The North Face Dirt Track jacket

The Dirt Track (really?) is TNF’s Gore Windstopper softshell, with zip-off sleeves that convert it into a gilet. First things first: fit. It’s decidedly ‘American’ in its sizing and boxy, rather than fitted. As a slim six-footer, the medium jacket came up short in body…

Juice Lubes Viking Juice All Conditions Lube

Juice Lubes Viking Juice All Conditions Lube

Viking Juice - distilled from pure essence of Viking?