This week, Alex and Ollie tackle your tech questions, covering: 🚴♂️ Tyre compounds for flat surfaces 🚴♂️ Tyre valves 🚴♂️ Sudden loss of tyre pressure 🚴♂️ Dealing with mouldy water bottles 🚴♂️ Exploring a potential substitute for chain wax
Si heads to the 2024 Gravel World Championships to explore the hottest tech at the expo and chat with pros about their gravel setups. From GRAVAA’s adaptable tire pressure system to custom setups like Matej Mohorič’s Merida, discover the latest from Orbea, Canyon, and more.
From CyclingNews.com
The first road stage of the Vuelta offered up some striking tech snippets
The Vuelta a España often plays third fiddle in the Grand Tour hierarchy. When you take into account the Classics too, it may seem that there is very little new tech to be spotted here, but that doesn’t mean there is none. The route is often punishingly hilly, and when wandering the pits I found out that Ineos have a fleet of bikes that they send to a Formula 1 paint company in the UK for stripping and repainting to make them even lighter, just for use in the hilly stages.
The heat, too, is always an issue, though there were far fewer cooling hacks on show here than there were for the opening time trial where the mercury shot above 40 degrees. My stage one tech gallery is worth perusing too if you want a full immersion into tech nerdery.
Are you getting too obsessed with your cycling data? Fed up of constantly looking at your bike computer? You can still have fun and improve your cycling without using fitness data, smart watches, power meters and heart rate monitors. Conor explains how you can keep track of your training without data!
A load of new bikes, new tech and kit, great food, and back in Germany? It can only mean one thing, it’s time for Eurobike 2023! Ollie geeks out to bring you all the hottest and weirdest tech from the expo, including some super lightweight bikes & all things aero!
What are the BEST bike upgrades you can make to your cycling? Finding some extra speed, but also keeping the comfort! Manon & Conor are here to help you with your next big upgrade…and they might not be what you think! 🤔
From CyclingNews.com
An aero gravel suspension fork, thru-axle batteries and solar-powered mudguards
When it comes to being a market leader in a segment, constant innovation is necessary in order to maintain that position. If you’re standing still, you’re moving backwards – the old adage goes.
Each innovation will begin as a simple idea, and as that concept goes through the various steps of becoming a reality, brands seek to protect their idea with a patent – or a series thereof.
Thanks to various free online patent-viewing resources, this provides the general public with a glimpse into the minds of our favourite brands; and a veritable treasure trove of concepts, ideas, and cool new future tech.
One brand in a market-leading position is American groupset manufacturer, Sram. While younger than its main rival, Shimano, and with a smaller share of the overall groupset market, Sram is just as entrenched in performance-level road and mountain bike groupsets, and has firmly cemented itself as one of the ‘Big Three’; the third position being occupied by Campagnolo.
