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This month Specialized announced the newly designed Tarmac which continues the evolution of their successful Tarmac SL4. But calling it the SL5 would imply that it’s just a lighter, stiffer, faster step-up from the previous model. However, the intent was much more ambitious than that …

With the Madone and Domane, Trek offers riders a choice of two very different road bikes. The former is fashioned for performance, while the latter is devoted to endurance. In this review, CTech Editor Matt Wikstrom rides both models in Trek’s 5 Series to see what they have to offer.

Reynolds takes all of their experience with high-end carbon wheelsets and distills it to produce the Assault wheelset with carbon clincher rims for less than $2000. At the same time they claim this wheelset will out-shine both alloy and carbon wheelsets on offer from their competitors.

Two months ago I was given some Fusion 2 Tubeless tires/tyres from Hutchinson and TFM and to try out. I’ve ridden these tires for almost 5000km now and it’s probably time I let you know my impression of these tubeless road tires. Now I’m the last one to state that I’m some sort of qualified […]