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3 weeks ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
Things creep up on you in May. One minute you’re covering every radiator with wet clothes and wearing a base layer to bed, the next, you’re trotting out Giro predictions, slathering factor 50 on in the Peak District (of all places), watching Coventry concede 123rd minute heart-breakers in the playoff semi-final and panicking about your summer riding plans.
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1 month ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
Ribble has launched its new Ultra Race all-round race bike to replace the Endurance SL R Disc. Though the two bikes retain plenty of similarities, the Ultra Race is positioned as more performance focussed. Jamie Burrow, Ribble’s head of product, says the bike ‘bridges the gap between pure aero and lightweight race models’.
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1 month ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
Three generations does not a dynasty make, but after less than a decade and just three iterations, the Basso Diamante SV has come to the end of the line. Its replacement, titled simply SV (sempre veloce, whichmeans ‘always fast’ in Italian), incorporates the racy and aero elements of its predecessor while falling into line with some more versatile design trends. It will sit alongside the Diamante, Basso’s lightweight climber’s bike, and the all-road Astra.
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1 month ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
There is a kind of quiet magic going on if a cycling jacket repels rain and blocks wind, but remains light, tailored, stretchy, packable, and breathable enough to evacuate body heat when we’re grinding up a hill in supernaturally bad weather. From the mortal realm, Santini’s Magic jacket tries to do it all. Until now, it has required a dark kind of magic to achieve this unerring level of performance.
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1 month ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
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1 month ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
Nothing is safe from the claws of innovation when it comes to cycling tech, not even the humble helmet strap. In partnership with the HighBar design team, headed by Eric Horton – formerly of Giro and Specialized – Canyon has launched the Disruptr helmet, which comes with a semi-rigid strap system that claims to position the helmet more securely than traditional fabric-based designs.
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1 month ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
Colnago has launched its new V5Rs all-round race bike to complete its updated range, which started with the release of the radical Y1Rs aero bike in December 2024. The V5Rs supersedes the V4Rs that has been ridden by Tadej Pogačar to multiple Grand Tour and Monument victories. Colnago claims the new frame (including fork) is 146g lighter thanks to the use of Finite Elemental Modelling and mandrels that allow for more precise pre-forming.
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1 month ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
Having Tadej Pogačar aboard your bikes isn’t the worst advert in the world, so for Colnago, having pushed the envelope with the design of the tomorrow’s world Y1Rs aero bike, was the refurb of the decorated V4Rs ever going to be similarly drastic? Davide Fumagalli, Colnago’s head of product, says yes and no. ‘The riders from UAE didn’t come to us and say we needed a better bike, as with the Y1Rs where they had requested a serious aero bike.
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1 month ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
I get the feeling there’s some bike racing going on this week. Our Classics obsession has spread from print to the interweb, with the Cyclist website an absolute hotbed of damp, soggy Classics content ripe for breaking a femur on. Tech editor Sam Challis kicked things off by concocting his dream Paris-Roubaix bike in our newsletter. You can read all about his 40mm 3T weapon right here (and there’s more where that comes from if you sign up).
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2 months ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Laurence Kilpatrick
Known for pioneering frameset designs, Look’s flagship race bike, the 795 Blade RS, actually fits quite unobtrusively in the modern lineup of all-round road race bikes. Previous 795s have sported out-there details such as top tubes flowing into stems and one-piece proprietary carbon cranks, but now, after a floor-up redesign, it is looking more like one of the bunch, even if Look doesn’t quite see it that way.
