Kinesis RTD Review
The Kinesis RTD is a Scandium aluminium frameset, with a Columbus Futura fork, designed for long fast rides & this is a review written after riding just over 100km on one. The RTD is the newest addition to Kinesis’s range of road framesets and is an interesting development from the Sussex based company. It’s the […]
Bowman Pilgrims Disc review
The Bowman Pilgrims Disc is a fast, fun, comfortable, great handling and looking bike that doesn’t cost earth. Whether you look at it as a Road Plus bike that you can ride over (relatively) rough ground or just as a well thought through Endurance Road Bike, the new Bowman Pilgrims Disc is a terrific ride […]
NeilPryde Zephyr First ride review
I’ve ridden NeilPryde Bikes since the brand launched back in 2010. To date, according to a quick glance at my Strava history, I’ve ridden nearly 7,000km on NeilPryde bikes (mostly on the girodilento Hall of Fame NeilPryde Nazare) but I’d never tried the brands Zephyr endurance offering. Since its launch I’d been curious about how […]
Rapide RC1 Disc first ride review
Earlier in the year I wrote a post about Rapide’s 2016 range after seeing them at UK distributor, Madison’s 2016 bikes launch. One of the models that particularly stood out was the new RC Disc – in the striking green and black colour. I thought it was a smart move by Rapide to embrace disc […]
Rapide bikes embrace road disc for 2016
Rapide are a house brand of major UK bike distributor Madison that launched their initial range for 2015 without an enormous amount of fanfare. It’s my understanding that the brand was created as a stepping up point for Madison’s highly successful Ridgeback brand for customers who want to move to a road bike but ideally […]