Another week ticked off, and a new month kicked off! Welcome to First Look Friday, bringing you some of the freshest kit to land at BR HQ recently.
Before we crack on with the products, as usual here’s a highlights list of the articles and features appearing on BikeRadar in the past seven days that you won’t want to miss.
Important news this week included the announcement of Colnago’s TT1 time-trial bike, developed in collaboration with UAE Team Emirates, while BMC revealed its prototype Speedmachine triathlon bike, the fruits of a joint research project with Red Bull Advanced Technologies that aspires to produce the “fastest bike in the world”.
Elsewhere Bryton’s new flagship Rider S800 computer aims to deliver some credible competition to Garmin and Wahoo, while Continental has introduced the 50mm-wide Terra Hardpack gravel tyre, designed for bikepacking.
This week’s BikeRadar Podcast posed the important question: What are high-pivot mountain bikes, and are they better?
And on the subject of MTB debates, we put Orbea’s Rallon M-LTD head-to-head with the radical GeoMetron G1 in order to explore whether enduro bikes have now found their geometry sweet spot, or whether there’s still scope to push the boundaries.