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Cervelo Unveils the S5 aero road bike

Cervelo Unveils the S5 aero road bike

Cervelo unveiled its new highest-end road bike, the S5 / FM70 under Thor Hushovd at the Norway national championship today. The new bike looks like the P4 and the S3 “mated” to form a road super [...]

First Look: Shimano Ultegra Di2

First Look: Shimano Ultegra Di2

Japanese component company Shimano today officially unveiled its electronic shifting system Di2 on the second-tier road group Ultegra. Designated 6770 in Shimano’s number hierarchy, the announcement finally breaks the worst kept secret in cycling component history. [...]

Tour de Suisse Stage 9 Time Trial Gallery

Tour de Suisse Stage 9 Time Trial Gallery

A lot of triathletes are obsessed with aerodynamics and love seeing powerful people riding the best bikes in the world. Below is a gallery by Graham Watson that shows off some of the new gear for [...]

Pro Bike: TJ Tollakson’s Zipp 2001

Pro Bike: TJ Tollakson’s Zipp 2001

American Ironman TJ Tollakson has infused some engineering into his race prep, and it’s proved to be a winning combination. The recent Eagleman 70.3 champion blazed through the bike course in 2:03—and his one-of-a-kind bike set [...]

Wilier Triestina TwinFoil TT bike

Wilier Triestina TwinFoil TT bike

Grand Tour season means that it’s also time for teams to begin riding the next years newest and fastest bikes. Wilier Triestina’s TwinFoil was raced for the first time at the Giro and it’s another great [...]

GreenEDGE Scott Plasma 3

GreenEDGE Scott Plasma 3

Reporting that it already has funding of ten to 16 million Euro per season in place, a major push to secure Australia’s first UCI ProTeam licence was launched earlier today in Adelaide. Bankrolled by Jayco chief [...]

New BMC Time Trial Bike

The new BMC TT01 was shown off yesterday at the Criterium du Daupiné. Cadel Evans of the BMC raced on this new machine and said that he is extremely happy with it. BMC said that the [...]

2012 Cannondale Super Slice “Spy Shots”

2012 Cannondale Super Slice “Spy Shots”

The Cannondale Slice, the bike used by Chrissie Wellington, is getting a huge overhaul. Today, at the final stage of the Giro D’Italia we finally got a glimpse at the new bike under Vincenzo Nibali of [...]

Specialized Tarmac SL3 Yellow Jersey

Specialized Tarmac SL3 Yellow Jersey

For the first post we’re profiling a yellow jersey edition Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL3. The specs on this bike include: Wheelset: Zipp 404 Firecrest Carbon Clincher Crankset: Specialized S-Works Crank with Rotor Q-Rings Bars/Stem/Seatpost: Garmin Team [...]