Plus the week’s top news, reviews and advice

By Jack Evans

Published: Friday, 22 September 2023 at 06:00 AM


In one of the biggest bike industry news stories in recent memory, this week saw Shimano announce a huge crankset recall.

The Shimano recall affects around 760,000 HollowTech road cranks in the US and Canada, due to 4,519 incidents of ‘separation of delamination’, with the recall set to be extended globally.

In the early stages of hill climb season, we published a guide to climbing faster.

Our British Gravel Championships tech gallery covered the best bikes from the King’s Cup Gravel festival. We took a closer look at the Pinarello Grevil F of Ineos Grenadier Connor Swift.

Liam Cahill reviewed the new Garmin Edge 840 Solar, while Nick Clark rated the cut-price Calibre Rake 29 hardtail highly.

To find additional affordable MTBs, head to our guide to the best mountain bikes under £750.

In other news, Moots, best known for its titanium frames, released the Express, a carbon electric bike.

Genesis also switched the frame material of the new Fugio adventure bike from steel to aluminium.

Stan Portus wrote about the new Swytch Go ebike conversion kit, which costs only £500, and went for a spin on it.

With that rapid round-up delivered, let’s check out the best new tech to land at BikeRadar Towers in the past seven days.