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Do you ever get to the end of a season of racing and feel a little down? All those great moments witnessed, those memories made, those memes consumed, consigned to season 2025 – the past. As we’re printing this issue, the UCI Road World Championships are just beginning, so you won’t find anything about the races for rainbows taking place across a historic week in Africa. Instead, you’ll find nods to the past and the future among these pages. Let’s start with our fave time of the year, the time that gets us excited and pedalling more than ever – the Santos Tour Down Under. Every year the women’s and men’s races grow a little, and 2026 will be no different. We’ve had a chat with TDU race director, Stuart…
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With roots stretching back to Cervélo’s original aero bike, the Soloist, the S series has always had the burden of legacy to live up to as well as the standards of its competitors. It can’t just be fast, it must be the fastest. That’s why Cervélo launched a new S5 at the Tour de France this year even when the previous generation would probably still have been sufficient for Visma-Lease a Bike to mix it with the best. ‘At 45kmh, the new S5 is 6.3 watts faster than that previous bike on average across a +/-15° wind angle sweep,’ says Scotty Roy, Cervélo’s engineering manager. According to Cervélo’s wind-tunnel data, the S5 beats race competitors by an even greater margin, testing more than ten watts faster than a Cannondale SuperSix…
Yakima St-ageTwo bike rack $1,299, yakima.com.au Yakima’s StageTwo hitch-mounted bike rack caters for heavy-duty e-bikes as well as high-end frames thanks to a strong yet refined design. As the name suggests, it’s capable of carrying two bikes, but Yakima has an extension available so you can carry four when required (the StageTwo +2 is $899). In what is a signature of Yakima, bikes are fastened to the rack by their tyres, with no frame contact required to attach – a feature particularly welcomed by those with carbon frames. The fixing system caters for 16”–29” wheels, up to 5-inch-wide tyres, and a massive 31kg weight limit per bike. It truly is a one-size-fits-all bike rack. There are plenty of other great features too, like the speed knob and tilt mechanism, which allow…
Cyclist: We could point out plenty of highlights in the men’s and women’s Santos Tour Down Under for 2026, but as Race Director, that’s your job! What can we look forward to in both races next year? Stuart O’Grady: From a holistic perspective, next year is set to be the first time in our history we’ve had all UCI WWT and WTeams on the start line across both men’s and women’s races. It has been mandatory for all men’s UCI WorldTour teams to participate since the Santos Tour Down Under was elevated to WorldTour status in 2008. But the women’s race has been by acceptance of invitation to each race, and participation has not been mandatory – until now. ‘The very best men’s and women’s teams will be on the start…
‘Akid-sized, bright pink Peugeot with drop bars,’ Kev Pollock says fondly as he recalls his first bike. ‘I must have been about seven. I’d seen it in the window of a local shop. We had no money growing up but my mum managed to buy it for me one Christmas, paying it off over months through one of those old Christmas Clubs shops used to run. That’s always stayed with me. I was totally smitten.’ He didn’t know it back then, but that pink Peugeot foreshadowed a life on two wheels. Pollock remembers building dodgy BMX ramps as a teen, weekend mountain bike trips in his twenties and cruising on slicks after university. He is now an artist and furniture designer, but bikes have been a constant. ‘These days, cycling’s…
