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Continental Grand Prix First Ride

    Continental Grand Prix 700x24c folding clincher £27.95 (wire bead £23.95)Perhaps the most influential lightweight road clincher of the early ‘90s, Continental’s Grand Prix remained a...

Continental Grand Prix First Ride
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dhb Earnley SS Seamless base layer

dhb Earnley SS Seamless Base Layer – £18.39 This particular dhb Earnely Seamless Base Layer is a short sleeve version of the base layer of the...

dhb Earnley SS Seamless base layer
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Lew carbon rims on Tune hubs

I have a Trek 1400, which is a nice bike. And, for £650 in the sales back in 2005, it rides very well. It’s stiff,...

Lew carbon rims on Tune hubs
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CycleOps launches new trainers

Powerbeam Pro Trainer Left JetFluid Pro Right SuperMagneto Pro CycleOps has been building turbo trainers for over 10 years and for 2009 releases three new Pro series...

CycleOps launches new trainers
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Shimano RS20 wheelset First Ride

Shimano RS20 wheelset £79.99 front, £99.99 rear With a recent price rise of £20 per pair these are not quite as budget as they were, but...

Shimano RS20 wheelset First Ride
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SRAM aero bar-end shifters

SRAM’s new 1090-R2C (Return to Center) bar-end shift levers have an internal mechanism that returns the lever to the initial alignment after each gear change....

SRAM aero bar-end shifters
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Singular Cycles

UK based Singular Cycles started out in life relatively recently producing 29in wheeled mountain bikes that, as we saw at the London Cycle Show recently,...

Singular Cycles
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Braveheart Dinner and Ride 2008

Pete Slater of Science In Sport prepares for rain Brian Smith can’t wait to get wet The ride lived up to its name SIS director Tim Lawson’s cafe...

Braveheart Dinner and Ride 2008
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Nicole Cooke Limited Edition

Olympic and World Road Champion 2008 Limited Edition in white Standing alongside Nicole Cooke’s stealthy black carbon-fibre cboardman PRO/Race Prepared Olympic and worlds-winning road bike at the...

Nicole Cooke Limited Edition
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Kinesis SPF 510 frame launched

While it’s easy to assume, with widespread adoption of carbon fibre, that materials like aluminium have been consigned to the history books, there’s still a...

Kinesis SPF 510 frame launched
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Boardman 2009 range launched

Athlete’s Hour bike? Olympic heroes training in background Building on a successful debut season, Olympic and world champion Chris Boardman’s 2009 cycle collection was unveiled at...

Boardman 2009 range launched
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Icebreaker Introduces Baacode

Ever wondered about the sheep that provided the wool from their backs for your Merino garment? Icebreaker has introduced Baacode, a new and unique tracking...

Icebreaker Introduces Baacode
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Kona 2009

Kona launched its extensive new range of 2009 bikes recently and hiding amongst the plethora of long-travel downhill mountain bikes were a couple of retro,...

Kona 2009
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Gore Bike Wear Xenon jacket

Gore Bike Wear Xenon jacket £114.99 The Xenon jacket is a favourite here at RCUK, combining Windstopper material into a well fitted jacket that...

Gore Bike Wear Xenon jacket
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Louis Garneau Carbon Tri HRS shoe

RCUK doesn’t often report on triathlon specific products, but these new Carbon Tri HRS shoes from Louis Garneau are worth a mention. They feature a laminated...

Louis Garneau Carbon Tri HRS shoe
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Trail Break: Final sportive of the season

Photo takeyourpics.co.uk The 2008 Sunday Sportive Season bowed out in style last weekend as over 600 cyclists converged on Dunsfold Park for a weekend of on...

Trail Break: Final sportive of the season
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Berthoud leather saddles

Berthoud mens’ saddle in natural leather Plastic cantle plate, stainless steel rails Upper also in black Natural colouring does not penetrate leather Allen key fixture allows replacement of upper Threaded...

Berthoud leather saddles
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nubütte chamois cream

nubütte (pronounced “new butt”) is a chamois cream with the main ingredient being Shea Butter (a natural fat extracted from the fruit of the shea...

nubütte chamois cream
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Tom Boonen's Specialized Roubaix SL2

At the London Cycle Show Tom Boonen’s Paris-Roubaix 2008 winning Specialized Roubaix SL2 was being proudly displayed. A poke around gave RCUK the chance to...

Tom Boonen's Specialized Roubaix SL2
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V-brakes for Specialized 'cross bikes

Specialized cross bikes look like they will be fitted with mini V-brakes rather than cantilevers for 2009. A regular complaint laid at the 2008 and...

V-brakes for Specialized 'cross bikes
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Cycle 2008 highlights II

Trickstuff’s Exzentriker eccentric bottom bracket for standard bicycle frames Sturmey Archer will be releasing this 3-speed fixed-wheel hub early next year. The S3X provides ratios of...

Cycle 2008 highlights II
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Cycle 2008 first highlights

Condor showed a huge range of fixed bikes in a array of colours Not to be outdone, Cinelli showed this fixie Bont is the latest name in...

Cycle 2008 first highlights
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Race up the hill

For many, there’s a lure to racing up hills, and there’s no denying the tension between Daniel Lloyd and Jody Crawforth as each took a...

Race up the hill
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Giant Defy 2009

Defy Advanced 1 Defy Alliance Defy RCUK revealed Giant’s 2009 bikes a while ago, with the top-end TCR Advanced bikes getting some rather significant changes, including all-new frames...

Giant Defy 2009
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