Specialized Avatar Gel BG Saddle £39.95 Specialized 020 8391 3500 The Avatar isn’t actually marketed as a mountain bike saddle, but then neither are most of the saddles that...
Shimano has released details of a bunch of new parts for the 2006 model year. Actually most of what we’re looking at here is scheduled...
Michelin is one of the biggest tyre companies in the world. It makes tyres for cars, motorbikes, plane, earthmovers and of course bicycles. The bike...
Just landed in the UK is the titanium version of Pastey’s Howler hardtail. We tested the 853 model a while back and liked it very...
This svelte-looking device is Soma’s new 4one5. It’s a disc-ready singlespeed frame, a concept that will either attract or repel you depending on your orientation....
DT Swiss is best known for spokes – that’s the core of its business and what it made its name in. But some cunningly judged...
Rocky Mountain is quite keen on its limited edition bikes and frames, and the Rocky Mountain Flow F3 SE is the latest in an honourable...
Looks like it’s BM project bike time again, with the arrival of this all-new Enduro SX Trail frame from Specialized. The Specialized SX Trail is...
Shimano Saint rear derailleur £79.95 Madison The key word with Shimano’s Saint rear derailleur is “survivability”. Derailleurs work amazingly well, and actual performance-enhancing developments tend to be, to...
Shimano Saint brakes £69.95 (160mm); £79.95 (203mm) Madison The quoted prices look cheap, but don’t be fooled. Until the 2005 Saint stuff arrives there’s no such thing as...
Shimano Saint hubs £64.95 (front); £110 (rear) Madison Shimano has always stuck by good old cup-and-cone hub bearings, and Saint nearly continues the tradition. The rear hub is...
Shimano Saint cranks £160-190 Madison We expect everyone’s fairly familiar with Shimano’s heavy-duty Saint components now. But just to recap, Saint marks something of a departure for Shimano...
Ritchey Pro Mountain V crank £99.99 Paligap 0117 982 5500 With all the big noise in chainsets being outboard bearing this and integrated axle that, it’s easy to forget...
SRAM X-9 rear mech £59.99 Fisher Outdoor Leisure SRAM’s ever-expanding empire now includes forks, brakes and cranks, but it’s still transmission stuff that it’s best known for. We’re...
Ritchey WCS seatpost £69.99 Paligap 0117 982 5500 There’s not really a great deal to a seatpost, but Ritchey’s top of the line WCS post manages to bring a...
Cannondale’s been building bikes with its Magura Headshok telescopic-steerer suspension fork for many years. There’s a lot to like about it for short-travel applications –...
Rotor System cranks RS-4 Ti $865 (about £480); RS-4 Cr-Mo $665 (about £380) Rotor Remember Biopace? It was Shimano’s late-80s attempt to smooth out our pedal strokes and...
Ike Carbon riser bar £59.99 Mukshop.com Carbon fibre bars are definitely somewhat in vogue at the moment. Improvements in materials technology and, perhaps more importantly, quality control mean...
Clarks Pre-Lube cables £18-20 Clarks Cycle Systems There is, you’d think, not a great deal to cables. But for such a notionally simple bit of kit there’s a...
The flow of 2005 product announcements continues unabated. Latest into the fray is brake and fork manufacturer Magura. HS33 Magura’s HS33 hydraulic rim brake has been around...
Ever since shock builder Fox Racing Shox got into forks (or “Forx”), everyone’s been wondering when it was going to get around to making a...
We brought you news of lots of Shimano’s 2005 gear a little while back, but the big S was keeping some stuff back. Now, though,...
Had enough 2005 kit yet? Well, SRAM has released details of – wait for it – 2006 components. Actually while the revised trigger shifters were...
Cotic’s splendid Soul 853 frame is about to get yet more splendider with the 2004 editions gaining a sprinkling of refinements over the original. The...
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