Bike-fit is big business. For about £150, you can get your position checked by a trained eye at your local bike shop. Parting company with about four times more cash will get you a physio-led fit with biomechanical assessment as standard; and if money’s no object, you can take it one step further with aero-optimisation […]
It is around dawn somewhere in rural northern England and the rain is falling. A thick slather of mud coats the ground the Australian walks on. His bike isn’t much use to him in these conditions, not on this trail. He’s exhausted. His limbs, heart and mind tired from the effort of riding, almost non-stop, […]
Lizzy Banks out riding near her home town of Sheffield. Picture by Andy JonesThere was a lot of emotion when Lizzy Banks won her first professional race at last month’s Giro Rosa. Post-race tears dried, she stood on the podium, thrust both arms straight upwards, and let out a shout. “Yes!” What was she thinking? “I had always wanted one of the Astoria [Prosecco] bottles and then I […]
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