Bicycling Australia

SURPRISE, SHOCK AND AWE... NO, WE’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A military campaign, this is much more serious than that. This was the response from a stunned Aussie cycling community upon hearing the news Wollongong will host the 2022 UCI Road World Champion

The new Surge Elite shoe from Giant takes the design ethos of its top-level Surge Pro shoe and puts it in a more affordable package. It features a long thermoset carbon/glass fibre composite outsole, paired with a BOA system closure and indirect inde

AS A YOUNG CYCLIST GROWING UP IN ADELAIDE I clearly recall my father saying: “Son, if you want to someday become a professional rider you’ll first have to go to Flanders and learn the trade.” So I did. There I was, a naive 17-year-old, racing as a ju

WHAT COMES AFTER 90 DAYS OR SO OF CLEAR blue sky? A torrential 90-minute downpour, an opening of the skies that had to be seen to be believed, and a rare taste of the rain much of Australia has been hoping and praying for for months (if not years). T

Before: “I’ve come up from Melbourne. I’m a bit nervous about the weather and the climbing but I am really looking forward to the day ahead.” After: “What an awesome loop! It was so much fun – despite that downpour of rain it was an epic ride.” – A

IT’S KNOWN AS THE HEROIC ERA OF CYCLING – a time of steel frames, downtube shifters, centre-pull brakes and hand-sewn tyres. What the riders lacked in long, loud socks they made up for with their immense quads. Those cotter-pinned cranks, big chainri

HELD FOR THE 36TH TIME IN 2018, LA MARMOTTE IS ONE of the oldest and most prestigious cycling events in the world. Riders from around the globe challenge themselves against some of the French Alps’ biggest climbs, including the iconic Col du Galibier

THIS YEAR’S TOUR DE FRANCE COVERAGE WAS peppered with advertising espousing the virtues of the ‘Next Stage’. But what happens if that next stage comes a whole lot sooner than you’d anticipated? What if the reality of pro cycling simply doesn’t match

It’s hard not to get excited about the prospect of riding in the Canton of Uri, Switzerland, home to the country’s most iconic mountain passes. I am staying in Andermatt, located at 1,437 metres above sea level. It was made accessible by stagecoaches

ICONIC, POPULAR AND EASILY accessible cycling destinations – most cities have one, the main variables being distance, the quality of the riding and terrain. Norton’s Summit and Mount Lofty in Adelaide, Arthur’s Seat in Melbourne, Bobbin Head, Akuna B

SRI LANKA: MAYBE IT DOESN’T REGISTER AT THE TOP of your hit list when it comes to great places to ride, but it should. This is my second time here; previously I tackled the island’s many lush and lumbering tea trails of these selfsame mountains on a

THE 27-YEAR-OLD IS FINISHING UP with professional road team Wiggle High5 to focus 100% on achieving her and her country’s top goal: an Olympic gold track medal. That’s right, Nettie is moving back home to Australia with a one track mind: quite litera

THERE MAY NOT BE THAT MANY 20km epics of climbs like those seen on the Tour de France in Australia, but what we do have in profusion are shorter sub-three-minute blasts, which are gruesomely referred to as ‘power climbs’. Throughout our crumpled and

TO QUOTE THE HEAD physiotherapist of British Cycling, “All the evidence now is that endurance cyclists can benefit from a training program – not big heavy weights, but some.” Now who are we to argue with that? The great point he made there was that y

LIGHT, BRIGHT AND RELAXED, you’ll find Clodeli just a short crit lap from the picturesque Clovelly beachfront. It’s been a popular brew stop for rouleurs in Sydney’s eastern suburbs for the best part of 10 years and it’s not hard to see why. Sitting

GIRONA, THE JEWEL OF Catalonia in northern Spain, is one of the world’s most dream-worthy locations to ride a bike. Rolling hills, long flats, smooth roads, steep climbs, narrow country lanes, courteous, bike-aware locals and some of the most picture

WHEN BUYING A HOME, THE top three things to consider are said to be location, location and location. In that vein, the top three things to consider when purchasing a helmet are fit, fit and fit. As a safety device it cannot do its job properly withou

BICYCLING AUSTRALIA: WHY WOULD YOU GO FOR A CUSTOM BIKE OVER AN 'OFF-THE-SHELF' BIKE? WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS? JAMES BOSSI: Building a bike from the ground up allows us to hone in on the customer’s needs and create the ideal bike for the riding they in

SPRINGTIME: THE BIRDS ARE chirping, sun is shining and riders are starting to break out of ‘minimum winter kilometre mode’. It’s also the time that manufacturers and distributors scramble to show us the latest and greatest products in the cycling wor

‘AERO IS EVERYTHING’. That’s the tagline that Specialized have touted since the release of the first Venge aero bike ahead of the Milan-San Remo race back in 2012, marrying the responsiveness of the American company’s Tarmac road bike with a healthy

CHAPTER2 IS THE LATEST project from Michael Pryde, a NZ architect and former semi-professional road and MTB racer. If his name sounds a little familiar, that’s because Pryde was also the driving force behind NeilPryde Bikes, a division of the renowne

WHO? FOZWAT RIDE WHEN? 5:30AM DAILY WHERE? KANGALOON ROAD TO BOWRAL VIA BERRIMA (36KM) WHAT COFFEE STOP? MEZZA, BOWRAL IT’S BEEN ALMOST TWO YEARS since I last shivered in this place. However, gazing up at the eerie glow from the digital clock on

SINCE MAKING HER NRS debut in 2017 as a Year 11 student, she’s gone on to become the 2018 Oceania U19 Time Trial Champion and recently represented Australia at the UCI Road World Championships in Austria. Just how good is Louw? Only time will tell. B

“OBVIOUSLY, WE’D STILL LIKE to aim for a podium at the Vuelta. That would be a great outcome for us, but if we look back at the past Grand Tours we’ve done these last two years, we’ve got some work to do, and our overall objective is to make a good p