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Written by: VeloGuy
Okay we know, training indoors on the trainer sucks. 1 hour on the trainer feels like 4 hours on the rode. And no matter how hard you try to take your mind out of the non moving space you find yourself in, it just seems to get worse. Yes, you are stuck [...]

Written by: Spencer Canon
My first bike was a black Centurion Ironman with Shimano 105 and “Biopace” chainrings. I guess Shimano was so certain their egg-shaped chainrings would be successful that they went ahead and made them standard issue that year. It was a brave attempt that went the way of other bad ideas like Softride. [...]

With all the brands of carbon hoops on the market today it is getting harder to decide which ones to buy. If you only go by the marketing hype then you likely will pay too much. And if all you go by is price then you will likely sacrifice quality. So what [...]

The MBT Anti Shoe is probably the most surprising product we have reviewed so far. It was recommended to us by a contributor to Bicycle.net who raves about them, and pretty much forced our hand into reviewing them. Due to his strong persistence we contacted MBT and had them send us two [...]

CASTELLI BODY PAINT BIBSHORTS – SEAMLESS PERFECTION
The Body Paint bibshorts are partially the result of three years of development, some futuristic thinking and feedback from elite riders. The one thing that is for sure is that there is no denying these are a high-end performance piece of cycling gear.
The Body Paint Bibshort is [...]

The Scott CR1 Pro first came to the cycling marketplace in 2004 and it was an instant success. It was one of the stiffest frames ever made while still being very light and responsive. Since 2004, Scott has released its new top of the line Addict, and moved the new CR1 into the performance comfort [...]

Go to any bike store today and it near impossible not to notice that there are more and more nutritional products taking up their shelf space. Whether in the form of pills, powders, or liquids they all claim some quick benefit to the aspiring amateur athlete. Trying to sort through [...]

So you are probably asking yourself why did Bicycle.net review a swimming product. Well, on the surface it may appear that there is no connection between a lap counting device and cycling. But yes my friends there is. If you have ever used your bicycle on an indoor trainer, or done [...]

SRAM has raised the bar so high with their performance entry level Rival groupset that the review team at Bicycle.net was not only pleased with performance, but blown away.

Lately the SRAM rival Group has been showing up on a ton of the mid-level race bikes that caught our attention, so when we had the opportunity [...]

The Cannondale SI SL Hollowgram crankset weighs in at a remarkable 580 grams. No you didn’t read that wrong: only 580 grams. And when used with the BB30 system it is the lightest production crankset in the cycling universe.

So how did Cannondale engineer the Hollowgram SI SL to be both super stiff, yet super light? [...]