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Sonder Camino Al – Miles Of Comfort And Fun

Hannah tests out the Sonder Camino AL, the company’s most popular bike. Will she find out why it’s such a hit? The Sonder Camino has been a popular choice since...

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Creepy Fatigue – The Cobblestones Of Flanders

Many of us will have looked at the cobblestones of Flanders and wondered how hard it can be, really, to ride them. Yes, add in a peloton of close packed...

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3 Peaks Cyclo-Cross Race 2020 Cancelled

It has been announced that the 3 Peaks Cyclo-Cross Race has been cancelled for 2020 due to COVID-19. The Race Organiser issued this statement on the event website: Cancellation of...

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All New Cannondale Topstone – Full Suspension Gravel. And Electric too.

Cannondale has updated its popular rear ‘suspension’ gravel/adventure bike with new models like the Topstone Carbon Lefty 1 and 3, with a matching 30mm travel Lefty Oliver fork. And to...

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Orange RX9 Pro First Look at this gravel bike

From the moment I pulled the RX9 Pro out of the home delivered box you could tell it was a gravel bike that was built by a mountain bike brand....

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Reviewed: Specialized Diverge Carbon Comp

The brand new Specialized Diverge was launched to the world earlier this month and, now that I’ve had this bike on test for about three weeks, I wanted to bring...

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Spank Vibrocore Drop Bars and Wheels – Fast And Comfortable?

Spank Flare 24 Vibrocore Wheelset and Flare 25 Vibrocore handlebar Price: Wheelset £289.99 front / £379.99 rear | Handlebar £89.99 From: Hotlines Tested: 3 months “Can you review some wheels and handlebars...

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First Look: Fuji Jari 2.5 Adventure Road Bike 2020 – Gravel on a budget?

The Fuji Jari 2.5 is a steel road/adventure bike designed to cope with anything from morning commutes to days out in the countryside. At £779.99 for a full build with...

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New Specialized Diverge – A Proper Modern Gravel Bike?

Specialized isn’t new to this gravel business, it would like you to know. Does anyone remember the ‘Rock Combo’ bike from 1989? We don’t blame you, it was only around...

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Gnarvel – A Tale of Misadventure on a Gravel Bike

Has anyone else had the bright idea of taming their riding during lockdown with the use of a gravel bike? My flawed logic was that a gravel bike isn’t capable...

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First Look: Sonder Camino Al Rival1 Hydraulic Gravel Bike

The Sonder Camino Al is designed to be a capable, tough and nippy adventure bike for big days out exploring. This one has arrived at Singletrack Towers to be tested...

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Review | The Moots Routt YBB: A Beauty and a Beast

Dean checks out an unusual boutique titanium drop bar soft tail all the way from the USA: the Moots Routt YBB. Brand: Moots Model: Routt YBB Price: £5700 (Frame and...

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Salsa Warroad Gets 2020 Update And UK Availability

The Salsa Warroad was reviewed previously by Tom Hill. This year’s model keeps the same frame, but you get new colours and new build kit options. Salsa offers three different...

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Salsa Stormchaser | Hipster Niche or Tough Tourer?

Salsa launches the new Salsa Stormchaser – a singlespeed gravel bike. Priced at £1200 for a frameset, this is no student hack bike. The marketing says it’s for when the...

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Review: The Kona Libre AL steers clear of niches

I’ve never been a huge fan of the term “gravel”, as applied to bikes. I can see the need for a term to describe machines that sit somewhere between cyclocross...

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Bontrager Releases New GR2, wait… what? Gravel Shoes

Ha! Bet you didn’t know that you needed special shoes for riding gravel, did you? Bontrager begs to differ and has just launched the new Bontrager GR2 gravel shoes in...

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Medals For UK At CX World Championships

The social media chat around the CX Worlds in Dubendorf was largely about whether the course was too boring and non technical, but that doesn’t detract from British success at...

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How To Watch CX Worlds This Weekend

It’s the CX World Championships in Dubendorf this weekend – always exciting and worth a watch. Lucky for UK viewers, there’s both BBC coverage and riders to cheer for! Schedule...

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RIP John Rawnsley. Organiser of the Three Peaks Cyclocross

We’ve just heard, along with many, many other cyclocross fans from the official Three Peaks Cyclocross social accounts that John Rawnsley, the creator and organiser of the Three Peaks Cyclocross...

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Frontier 300 – Will You Make Brunch on The Beach?

“We live on an island, everyone should ride across it at least once!” So say the folks behind the new Frontier 300, a coast to coast event organised between the...

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Nukeproof Digger Gets Shimano GRX For 2020

What “started during an intoxicated conversation some years ago”, the Nukeproof Digger ended up as a cult product in Nukeproof’s range. And for 2020 it’s getting Shimano’s dedicated GRX gravel...

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The 2020 Naughty Frontier – Gravel Enduro Launches

The team behind the hugely popular Naughty Northumbrian mountain bike enduro race has just announced a gravel version, called the Naughty Frontier. What it ISN’T is a long 200km non-competitive...

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I Just Want To Ride – Lael Wilcox and the 2019 Tour Divide

There was a bunch of controversy around this year’s Tour Divide, with the lead up to it marked by the kind of kerfuffle that the internet breeds best (or worst)....

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Halo Wheels Launches Dynamo Range | Get Lit!

Halo Wheels has teamed up with SP Dynamo to produce what it claims is the widest range of dynamo wheels on the market – and if they don’t have what...

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Review: The Nukeproof Digger Comp puts the grin into gravel grinding

Nukeproof is a name that a lot of you will recognise from the mountain bike world, where the company has a high profile on the DH scene, and its Mega...

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EF’s Lachlan Morton’s First Go At The Three Peaks. A film by Rapha

Lachlan Morton, a pro road racer for UCI team, EF Education First seems to have a fairly benevolent and understanding employer. Given that his day job involves racing road bikes,...

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