Plus all the latest news and reviews from the week <\/p>
Greetings from Granada, Spain, where I\u2019m penning this week’s First Look Friday. I\u2019m recovering from finishing Badlands, an 800km gravel ultra-endurance race, and my various aches and pains are finally starting to subside.\u00a0<\/p>
We kicked off the week with workshop manager Will Poole<\/a>\u2019s rousing account of the Frontier 300<\/a>, a route that crosses from the Irish Sea to the North Sea from Rockliffe, in Scotland to Hadston, in north-east England. The catch? You have to ride the 300km with 4,200m elevation in a single day.\u00a0<\/p> James Witts<\/a> then delivered a detailed review of the Wattbike Proton<\/a>, a new smartbike that’s designed to take a slice of the Peloton and Zwift Ride<\/a> pie to appeal to the wider health and smart trainer<\/a> market.\u00a0<\/p> But by far the biggest news of the week was the announcement of Campagnolo\u2019s Super Record S Wireless groupset. Sitting one rung below Campagnolo Super Record Wireless<\/a>, the new groupset is claimed to be 150g heavier, with the crankset using a solid rather than hollow carbon construction.\u00a0<\/p> However, it\u2019s still a wallet-cleansing $4,299 \/ \u20ac3,390, which is about as expensive as Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200<\/a> and SRAM Red AXS<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p> Campagnolo has always been a brand to go against the grain and has always regarded its Chorus and Record groupsets above its competitors’ second and third-tier groupsets. Either way, be sure to check out our full review once we have a groupset in to test.\u00a0<\/p> Elsewhere, Nick Clark brought us news of Canyon’s new Spectral:ONfly<\/a> lightweight electric mountain bike.<\/p> Right, now let me present this week\u2019s new sizzlin\u2019 tech.\u00a0<\/p>