Cycling Reviews

With arm warmers and short sleeves, you’re covered no matter what the weather gods throw your way.

A powerful headlight is not just about seeing at night, but about making yourself conspicuous to drivers at times when you tend to blur into the background grey – at dusk or dawn, on rainy or overcast days, in the wafting fog….

The secret’s out: Shimano has just brought bikes into the 21st Century by giving them something cars have had for decades – an automatic transmission.

It’s a flexible, rubber strap that loops around your handlebar to give you a secure mount for the little stuff you need to reach with ease. It can hold everything from extra lights or GPS devices to gels, bars or Fig Newtons.

Why should you spend ₤160 on a pair of cycling glasses when you can spend ₤20 on glasses that look exactly the same? Because the ₤20 glasses won’t protect you from the invisible rays beaming down at you from the sky. Paranoid? Maybe. But it’s true.

Ideally, you want a pair of glasses that won’t fog or blur, that won’t fall off if you hunch down over the bars and that are close to indestructible – because you’re never going to fall or drop them, but just in case you did…

If only somebody would make a warm clava with a separate mask to cover your lower face –- so it’s easy to breathe, even when you’re guzzling oxygen at 85% HR.

Sheered in New Zealand from Merino sheep, this wool is made of only the extra-fine strands — 1/3 to 1/10th the size of a human hair. So it’s soft, not itchy like regular wool.

When you’re sitting inside, trying to decide if it’s too cold to go cycling, keep this in mind: Somebody’s out there in colder weather than you are, suiting up to ride.

What you need is a glove that’s just as extreme as you are.