Comparative test: Giro Empire ACC vs. Giro Empire SLX
Laces are back in vogue. Iain Treloar takes a look at two of the most popular laced road cycling shoes...
Year: 2016
The Old Beechy
With a deadline for dinner drawing them on, Peter Foot recounts a beguiling journey through a surprising landscape. Mouldy carpet...
How to overtake obstacles
Whether it’s road works, parked cars or a hazard, you will sometimes need to overtake something that’s in the way...
Memories of a first cycling century
Bike it Better's Cazz Clarke shares her first experience of riding 100km. There are very few cyclists who don’t remember...
Review: Cuore warmers
Iain Treloar tests some underappreciated, but essential, items of the cycling wardrobe. This week has been a pretty unexceptional one...
Down the adventure road
Gravel grinders, all-road or adventure bikes—whatever you call them, we put five of the best to test. Iain Treloar...
Can Bikes Stop Global Warming?
Limiting global warming and defining sustainable development have both been recently negotiated at the global level. Simon Vincett asks Australia’s...
Driving on empathy
When we think of other road users as people rather than as cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists or drivers, we will make...
Riding the trails
Just in time for some easy day-touring in the glorious conditions of autumn, Karen Graham suggests some of her favourite...
How to be a bike advocate
Don’t let anything ruin your ride. Try these positive actions to make the riding environment better. Simon Vincett shows you...