Plus the best news, reviews and advice from BikeRadar this week

By Luke Marshall

Published: Friday, 16 June 2023 at 12:00 am


Here we are again for another dose of First Look Friday, BikeRadar’s highlights reel from the past week and a quick look at some of the latest kit to land on our desks.

If you’ve been checking the website, you’ll have no doubt seen it has been gravel week here at BikeRadar.

We’ve got all the latest tech, news and reviews from the gravel world, from explaining what a gravel bike is to reviews of the some of the best gravel bikes available.

You can check out the best carbon, steel, titanium and aluminium gravel bikes out there, and find detailed guides on how to choose the best gravel handlebars and how to set up your gravel bike.

If that’s not enough gravel to get stuck in to, there’s the first gravel bike from mountain bike brand Commencal to check out. Plus, if you want to take your gravel riding more seriously, you can learn all about gravel racing and how to train for it.

It’s not all about gravel though, and we have big reviews of SRAM’s new Apex Eagle groupset and its latest, cheapest Apex AXS XPLR electronic drivetrain that should help bring electronic shifting to the masses.

If you don’t have time to read all the in-depth details, check out the BikeRadar podcast that gives you the lowdown on the new groupset.

Elsewhere, Simon von Bromley reported on the new Zwift Play handlebar-mounted controller.

If you’re hunting out mountain bike news, look no further than the latest trail ebike from Canyon, the Neuron:ON, and the new hard-hitting Rocky Mountain Slayer.

We also brought you the latest tech from the first round of the 2023 UCI Downhill World Cup in Lenzerheide.

With that taster of this week’s news served up, let’s get on to the pick of the latest tech to arrive at BikeRadar.