Plus a round-up of all the essential content from the past week <\/p>
Welcome, once more, to First Look Friday \u2013 our look back on the freshest news, features and reviews to appear on BikeRadar over the past seven days.<\/p>
Another week and another glut of stories broke in the world of bike tech, with the hefty lunar-exploring Surly Moonlander 2.0<\/a> turning plenty of heads on Tuesday. <\/p> Less than 24 hours later, Ashley Quinlan unpacked the highlights of German brand Cube’s updated range for 2025<\/a>. This prompted our team of cycling sleuths to spot a new drop-bar version of Shimano\u2019s Cues groupset<\/a> on the Cube Nuroad Pro gravel bike.<\/p> Once the dust had settled there, Simon von Bromley brought us up to speed on Zwift’s raft of updates<\/a> and new modular bike frame<\/a> as we head out of an all too fleeting, mostly soggy UK summer into another indoor training season.<\/p> Our good friend, Finlay Anderson, pitted Shimano’s Deore and SLX mountain bike groupsets<\/a> against each other to give you a steer on where to spend your money and Nick Clark took a closer look at our latest Bike of the Week, the Antidote Woodsprite<\/a>. <\/p> Now you’re fully abreast of the week’s highlights, let’s get you some cycling tech goodies to feast your weary eyes upon.<\/p>