There are a million and one pieces of cycling gear out there that maybe, possibly, might make you a better road cyclist. So how quick are we to open our billfolds for the latest carbon bits to shave weight from our road bikes just because we believe it might make us go faster? I’m just as guilty

Women cyclists all have one common dilemma: we participate in a sport that men dominate. We usually don’t have to worry about race days because a group of us gathered to compete (although I have been to races where they grouped the women with the men because there weren’t enough female racers to constitute a

This article is a guest post from Cecilia ‘Ceal’ Potts, a former professional cyclist. Her greatest cycling accomplishment was winning the Junior Cross Country Mountain Bike World Championships in 1997. She has made a list of 10 must-haves for mountain bikers: Mountain biking used to be a sport where we’d use the same bike, tires,

Road bike gear for the serious cyclist The most important thing for a serious road cyclist is comfort. If you’re not comfortable, your riding will suffer. When I speak about comfort, I’m not talking about a tractor-sized saddle with a sheepskin cover. Instead, I’m talking about making sure everything you select fits your body and

From a spectator’s point of view, a peloton looks like a static group of riders rolling at a high rate of speed. However, the peloton is a dynamic bit of organized chaos, and where you are within it will make or break your results at the end of the day. There’s a lot to remember.