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Our second issue of 2025, and the 74th since Cyclist Australia/NZ’s inception, sees us settling into our annual cycling rhythm. We’re done with riding off the silly season, racking up outrageously productive summer kms inspired by the road nationals and the TDU. We’ve changed gear into February, with the work week, school bells and other responsibilities dictating our riding routines and routes. And right now, it’s all about maintaining momentum, keeping our love of two-wheeled workouts as the mornings grow colder and days get shorter. What better way to do this than squeezing in another trip to Victoria’s High Country before the ski season kicks in? We visit Mt Buller to get off-road and continue our infatuation with the region. You can read all about the challenging yet rewarding gravel…
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Back when the company was formed in the early 2000s, Parlee liked to name its bikes using combinations of numbers and letters. ‘Oh yeah, we’ve done plenty of that: Z-Zero, Z5, ESX, RZ7,’ says Parlee’s product manager, Tom Rodi. ‘We want to take a slightly different direction now and call bikes after a dream place to ride them. We did it with the Chebacco, the all-road bike we had before the Ouray, which was named after this brilliant little riding park local to us. Ouray – pronounced “yur-ray” – is this cool town in the heart of the Rockies. People call it the Switzerland of America because there are so many awesome mountain roads around it. The Ouray is focused on big days out, maybe on a range of surfaces,…
In recent years there have arguably been two main trends in road bike design. First is the hunt for the perfect all-rounder – a bike that balances aerodynamics, stiffness and weight in the hopes of creating the consummate road racing machine. Second is the focus on all-out aero, where slipperiness takes priority over everything else. The Orbea Orca, however, is bucking both these trends. The Orca is every climber’s dream, with a claimed weight of just 6.7kg for a size 53cm, and it favours lightness above all else. Orbea and some of its competitors, such as Scott (see page 132), are convinced there’s a strong market for it among both pros and enthusiasts alike. Cutting it fine Lightness being the aim of the game, it’s unsurprising that Orbea has seemingly…
Pro Sirin saddle $359 (Team), $239 (Performance), pro-bikegear.com The Pro Sirin Saddle is designed for women to hold a more aggressive and aerodynamic position on the bike without the nose of the saddle getting in the way. The Pro design team, which is informed by bike fit data from thousands of bike fittings, collaborated with a pelvic floor specialist and a large group of test riders. This process produced a shape that includes a narrow nose, relatively steep angles in the transition from the nose to the wings, a lifted rear profile, and the 32mm-wide cut-out. The saddle also includes dual-density, lightweight EVA padding with soft-cut edges to the cut-out to further help ensure comfort for all-day riding. A brand-new offering from Pro, the Sirin saddle comes with a carbon…
Cyclist: You claimed your first Grand Tour stage victory on the final day’s time-trial at the Vuelta a España in 2024. Did that feel a long time coming? Stefan Küng: My first Tour de France in 2017 had an opening time-trial in Düsseldorf. I came second behind Geraint Thomas and everybody said, ‘The win will come soon, you will see.’ It hasn’t been that easy. It took me seven more years to finally get it done, which just shows that even though sometimes it looks like a path is written for you, like you’re just going to open your arms and collect these victories, in the end winning Grand Tour stages means you’ve got to beat them all. And the best riders of our sport participate in these Grand Tours. I’ve…
