We get our hands on Bamboo Bikes’ first ever drop-bar bike. Is this cross machine just as happy playing in the woods as on tarmac? It’s time to find out…
bike reviews
Bianchi Vertigo 105: First ride
Bianchi is the oldest bike brand in the world. Unsurprisingly, it knows how to design a mid-priced road bike
Dynamic Sidekick 8 review £525
Shaft drive, hub gear and folding? That’s a lot of practicality to cram into one bike… the Dynamic Sidekick 8
BH Prisma 7.3 £1899.99: First ride
BH’s sportive special from sunny Spain comes from a company boasting big-race credentials
B’Twin Tilt: Shape Shifter
Matt Lamy speaks to Jean-Philippe Rode, the product manager for B’Twin’s brand new Tilt line of folding cycles — an enterprise that includes a long list of impressive integrated innovations and possibly Foldingbikeland’s funkiest and most-desirable frame
Cube Peloton Race: First Ride
Available in size and gearing options to suit all, Cube’s Peloton Race looks every part the square deal for £1079
Giant Defy 4: First Ride
Giant’s road stalwart doesn’t seem to have anything too outlandish about its design – and that’s just the way we like it
Raleigh Sojourn: First Ride
Can the iconic brand’s new tourer do justice to 125 years at the heart of British cycling?
Orbit Summit Rohloff S&S tandem £4,500
There’s no ‘I’ in couple — and a tandem is perfect for sharing pedalling effort with a partner. Orbit’s new Summit is a bicycle made for two-up touring
Creme Glider: First ride
Classic looks with truly modern equipment – is the Creme Glider the perfect meeting of past and present?
Isla Bikes Beinn 20: First Ride
What every girl wants — a lightweight, perfectly proportioned bicycle in hot pink
£1,000 bikes: A very British bike test
What better way to celebrate our Olympic cycling glory than to put four British contenders through their paces
£1,000 British bikes: Charge Juicer Hi £999.99
Charge Juicer Hi £999.99: One of four British bikes in our grouptest for under a grand
£1,000 British bikes: Ribble Evo Pro Carbon £999.99
Ribble Evo Pro Carbon: One of four British bikes for under a grand
£1,000 British bikes: Verdict
We present the verdict in our four-way test of British bikes that cost under a grand
£1,000 British bikes: Forme Longcliffe 1.0 £999.99
Forme Longcliffe 1.0: One of four British bikes for under a grand in our grouptest
£1,000 British bikes: Raleigh AirLite 400 £975
Raleigh Airlite 400: One of four British bikes for under a grand in our grouptest
Cannondale Trail SL 29er 2 £999
They may have started out as a sideshow but 29in wheels are edging towards mountain biking’s centre stage. So what difference does an extra three inches make? The answer comes courtesy of Cannondale…
Dedacciai Nerissimo: First Ride
Dedacciai’s Italian-designed Nerissimo is also available in black, funnily enough
Corratec Shape Pro: First ride
Mountain bike strength combined with road bike speed — classic German efficiency
Montura Four: First Ride
Titanium is still the ultimate do-it-all frame material and now there’s a new home grown option
Whistle Win: First ride
Looking for your first aluminium road bike and an eye-catching girly one at that? We put the rosy Whistle Win through its paces out in the lanes
Mountain bike versus hybrid: Test lab
So a hybrid is just a mountain bike with bigger wheels and slicker tyres on, right? Professor Lamy dons his lab coat and gets out his Bunsen burner to experiment
Long termers: Singular Peregrine
Derri Dunn reports on her long-term test bike, a Singular Peregrine super commuter
Biomega Copenhagen: First ride
Now for something completely different — Cycling Active’s first ever test of a shaft-driven bicycle
