Bicycling Australia

SUMMER 2019/20 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY FOR ALL THE WRONG reasons. First it was the devastating bushfires, the damage and destruction affecting thousands of Australians including some very close to us here at Bicycling Australia. Our Classics series R

‘I PLEDGE TO VISIT A FIRE affected town with my Empty Esky’. This timely and most relevant media campaign really has struck a chord with Australians and the wider world over the past few harrowing months. The ‘Bring an Empty Esky’ campaign is aimed a

Days before the Tour Down Under in Adelaide, Specialized launched an exciting new line up of products along with news of a major donation following the bushfire crisis. The ‘Down Under Collection’ has been inspired by the speed and colour of the Aust

ESTEBAN CHAVES CLIMBED INTO THE INTERNATIONAL cycling limelight when he won the Tour de L’Avenir – widely considered ‘the Junior Tour de France’ – in 2011. He turned pro the following year with the Italian based Colombia-Coldeportes team, and embarke

HE MAY HAVE BEEN ‘SMALL’ BY NAME. BUT THERE was nothing small about the influence of Sir Andrew Bruce Small over Australian cycling in the early to mid-1900s. Confident, charismatic and unashamedly commercial, Small was a pivotal figure during a gold

Cadel Evans began the decade in rainbow stripes, courtesy of his 2009 World Championship victory at Mendrisio, Switzerland. He ends it as Australia’s first, and only, Tour de France winner, happily retired, although still very much involved in the sp

WHEN YOU ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD TO participate in a sport that’s one of your own passions, you naturally have high hopes of where it might take you both one day. Since my youngest daughter picked up a road bike, we’d made an annual tradition of watchin

As a keen road cyclist Julia Van Der Veer was excited to be pregnant but sad to know the four bunch rides she was riding each week would soon be curtailed - especially with twins on board. But after speaking with her obstetrician along with reading u

ANYONE REMEMBER TWO OR THREE DECADES AGO, when women who turned up at a cycling club bunch ride were told to come back when they could ride fast enough to stay with the men, or when women who wanted to race often didn’t because they felt too intimate

UNSURPRISINGLY, JUST AS EACH BRAND HAS ITS own approach to designing bikes in general, they also have their own approach to designing bikes for their female customers, of which there are ever growing numbers. However, there has been a retreat of sort

BIG DATA CONTINUES TO IMPACT MORE AND MORE OF our lives. So it comes as no great surprise cycling is beginning to see its influence, with the launch of a new data analysis tool called ‘Protecteur’. It’s still early days, but Protecteur – along with i

THE PELICAN’S WINGSPAN WAS LARGE enough to block the entire road had it deigned to do so, but road bikes didn’t register on its radar. Accustomed to giant herds of cattle and the rumbling of John Deere tractors, cyclists are a rare sight in these par

WHAT? BELGIE / DUTCHIE WHERE? MELBOURNE, VICTORIA WHEN? WEDNESDAYS, 6.30AM POST-RIDE? COFFEE PEDDLR DISTANCE OF THE LOOP 41KM AVERAGE SPEED 28.4KPH NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART legs or lungs, this duo of iconic rides serve up the quintessen

THE HUMAN BODY IS A DYNAMIC system that changes from day to day. The more a person rides a bike, the better adapted their legs are to pedalling. The knee and ankle joints can be called on to work a little bit harder, to reach a little bit further. In

1 It is easy to take the measure off an existing bike and transfer it over, but what if you didn’t have an existing bike? With all the fires around this summer that possibility should seem more real than abstract. Measure it multiple times, write it

New shoes. Some shoes have very thin soles, others quite thick. There can be quite a lot of difference from brand to brand. This might not even alter your heel-on-pedal measurement, but it will affect your actual seat height. New pedals. The obvious

JUST THE MENTION OF THE WORD can make anyone who’s previously suffered wince in pain ... yes, it’s sciatica, a lower back condition that affects a large percentage of the population – particularly those in their 30s, 40s and beyond. It often comes on

GRAVEL CYCLING CONTINUES TO be a growing genre in cycling in Australia, following the growth in interest in many countries. Redshift have developed a stem and post that will change the ride feel for gravel cyclists in Australia. Running the combinati

IN AN AGE WHERE AERO SEEMS TO be everything, Cervelo say the new S3 will give riders “every possible advantage.” “We made the S3 more aerodynamic and with an optimised balance of stiffness and compliance,” a company rep told Bicycling Australia. “The

WITH STRONG LINKS TO THE past and a firm fix on the future, the Bianchi Sprint was a release that both piqued our interest and fuelled enthusiasm. Choked by weeks of bushfire smoke, it was refreshing to arrive in Adelaide and finally breathe some rel

I’M ONE OF THOSE CYCLISTS WHO doesn’t drool over bikes and kit. I’m not a bike cleaner, or a chaser of the latest and greatest; in fact most of my kit would be considered ancient (or classic) to many – despite the fact that I’ve worked in the cycling

TRIBUTES FLOWED IN FROM AROUND THE WORLD when the Sydneysider died at the age of 84 on January 11, leaving behind wife Janet and sons Mark and Rik and Jacqueline. Son Alan predeceased him in 2013. “A pioneer who switched roles form his own cycling en

WHEN MOST ATHLETES TALK about a four year plan, they’re generally referring to ambitions to compete at the Olympic Games, which, coincidentally, are held every four years. Rohan Dennis had a different four year plan that centred around something othe