Regular as clockwork, here\u2019s what\u2019s been going on this week <\/p>
\u201cWarm out this week, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>
Right, now the time-honoured British weather-related greeting has been ticked off, let\u2019s recount what we\u2019ve been up to at BikeRadar Towers.<\/p>
It won\u2019t have escaped anyone\u2019s attention that the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have begun, and we kicked off the sporting celebration with our own XC Weekend bout of content, ending with our profile of the gold-medal winning bikes of Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot and Tom Pidcock<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p> We also celebrated staff writer Rachel Bennet<\/a>\u2019s British National Masters Championship win \u2013 and Rach shared some of the things she learned<\/a> along the way.<\/p> My review of one of the brightest-coloured bikes in the professional peloton was published (the Cannondale SuperSix Evo Lab71 EF Replica<\/a>), while we shared our guide to all the action taking place in the velodrome in Paris, starting on 5 August.<\/p> Then, the biggest tech news of the week hit, with the arrival of SRAM Red AXS XPLR along with what Zipp is calling its fastest \u2013 and widest \u2013\u00a0gravel wheels to date. Warren Rossiter has been up close and personal with the new groupset and delivered his verdict.<\/p> Of course, while all this has been going on, we\u2019ve seen plenty of shiny and interesting tech land. Here are a few snippets.<\/p>