Plus highlights from a busy week of biking

By Tom Marvin

Published: Friday, 12 July 2024 at 06:00 AM


The BikeRadar home page has been popping in recent weeks. Not only are we in the middle of the world’s biggest bike race, but we’re coming off the back of the world’s biggest bike show.

The dust has settled in the vast Messe Frankfurt, with Eurobike finished for 2024, so now’s the perfect time to catch up on all the tech highlights you might have missed.

Our Eurobike coverage is all collated beautifully, so give it a scroll and pick out your favourite bits – just as Warren did when he was a judge at the show this year.

The world’s pluckiest pros are currently powering their way around France. This week, we sent our own brave rider to find out how tough the Tour de France really is. We also compared Tadej Pogačar’s Colnago V4Rs and Jonas Vingegaard’s Cervélo R5 – and Cav’s first and latest stage-winning bikes.

But, that’s not all. Our knobbly-tyre’d readers shouldn’t assume it’s all curly bars this week.

Announced on Tuesday, YT’s new Decoy SN was built to be ‘the best enduro bike, powered or not’, and, on first impressions, it’s pretty good.

I also reviewed the new Merida Big.Trail 600 – a properly rad hardtail at a decent price.

On top of the new YT, we saw a new Lapierre Spicy that we reckon is the first bike to offer high- and low-pivot linkages on the same frame, as well as a bike I’m super-excited to ride – a new Trek Top Fuel.

We’ve also been rolling out plenty of sports bra reviews, as well as updating our guide to the best gravel tyres.