Cyclingnews is dedicated to offering our readers with the very best recommendation on the subject of biking tech and equipment. Whether you are searching for a model new aero highway bike, a bikepacking-friendly gravel bike, a brand new helmet or a torque wrench to maintain all the things working, we’re devoted to placing our workforce’s expertise to good use and supply ideas, methods, and real cyclist-to-cyclist shopping for recommendation that can assist you select the appropriate one.
Our skilled workforce of testers and writers are utilizing, evaluating and testing all the things from entry-level merchandise to pro-level gear to offer you an knowledgeable shopping for resolution.
We will take a look at all the most recent merchandise as they’re launched, pitting them in opposition to the competitors that can assist you resolve whether or not or not they’re value your hard-earned funding.
Choosing the appropriate product could be overwhelming
Whether you lately bought into biking otherwise you’ve been at it for years, the sheer array of equipment could be dizzying, from the fundamentals such because the bike, helmet and sneakers, to the extra seasonal merchandise like clothes.
On any given morning, you will ask your self do you want a short-sleeve jersey and arm heaters or a long-sleeve jersey? Do you want a gilet, a base layer, a softshell or a hardshell? Should you put on shorts and leg heaters, or possibly simply knee heaters, or full bib tights? Is it an overshoes type of day too?
And that is all earlier than you get into selecting which GPS laptop, which tyres, which saddle and which handlebar tape you need in your bike. Each of those totally different equipment comes with a protracted record of manufacturers making what they declare to be the very best, and you may spend weeks trawling by way of web sites to search out the very best product at the very best worth, earlier than transferring on to the subsequent.
Alternatively, you may use our assist. We’ve been there, we have the t-shirt (and the arm heaters), and every of our purchasing guides is designed to contemplate the wants of assorted cyclists and align a product with these wants. If you are an aspiring highway racer, your wishlist of options in a brand new helmet is probably going totally different to somebody utilizing it solely to commute to the workplace.
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Best bike purchaser’s guides
If you are searching for a brand new bike, we have put quite a lot of bikes to the take a look at, in contrast the variations, and achieved the analysis so you do not have to. Here are quite a lot of guides tailor-made that can assist you select the very best when looking for your new bike.
Clothing
Shoes
Helmets
Accessories and parts
Whether you are trying to clean up your bar tape, overhaul your groupset, or put money into an indoor coaching setup, our purchaser’s guides for equipment and parts are right here to assist.
Maintenance
If you are a fettler who likes to keep up your individual bike, there is not any such factor as too many instruments, so hold your bike in tip-top situation with our vary of maintenance-related guides.
Groupsets
Wheels
Record your trip: Computers and cameras
Power meters and indoor coaching
Here at Cyclingnews, we’re not solely occupied with sharing useful shopping for recommendation but in addition in suggesting and recommending merchandise we have examined. We additionally need to show you how to discover the very best worth accessible on these very merchandise, so we are going to often share details about offers we have noticed so to take benefit.
Who are we?
The Cyclingnews tech workforce includes myself (Josh Croxton), Will Jones and Tom Wieckowski, in addition to some assist from a handful of freelance writers.
Click on our names to go to our creator profiles and discover out extra about our roles, our backgrounds and our areas of experience.
Why can we do it?
Although we actually reasonably get pleasure from spending our days writing about biking equipment, there is a monetary motivation too – we have all bought payments to pay, in spite of everything!
There are 3 ways we monetise our purchasing recommendation.
1. Third-party promoting
These are the adverts that present up round our guides. Our editorial workforce haven’t any actual say in what lands in these advert slots (although we will flag offensive adverts). Our focus stays on creating good content material, as a result of the extra folks that learn the information, the extra individuals see these adverts and our bosses stay completely satisfied.
2. First-party promoting
Our publishing home (Future Publishing) has a workforce which sells promoting alternatives on to manufacturers throughout a single web page (such because the homepage), a class of pages (corresponding to all gravel-based content material), or simply ‘in every single place’. I’m certain there are extra nuances to the categorisation, however because the Associate Editor right here, I needn’t be concerned.
Editorially, our focus right here is to make our purchasing guides (and different content material) pretty much as good as doable. In the case of shopping for guides, the higher and extra useful it’s, the extra doubtless it’s that folks will return for his or her subsequent buy. Once once more, the extra individuals we interact, the extra folks that see these adverts, and the larger the probability that the model in query will return to promote once more.
Once once more, as editors we have now no say in what adverts present up, however extra pertinently, advertisers haven’t any say on which merchandise we suggest, nor how properly a product is reviewed. That resolution stays squarely on the shoulders of our tech workforce.
3. Affiliate hyperlinks
As a small cog inside a bigger publishing-house machine, Cyclingnews has entry to a bit of software program referred to as Hawk. This software program is actually a database that pulls in product knowledge from reside feeds at 1000’s of eCommerce web sites world wide, from the large ones like Amazon and Walmart to the cycling-specific ones like Sigma Sports and Competitive Cyclist.
Once we have determined {that a} product is worthy of a spot in a shopping for information, we will create a product in Hawk. Once I’ve created that product, the software program will seek for each occasion of it accessible on the market in its database, utilizing the title, barcode, SKU and different identifiers. It will then compile them into a listing, and order it with the most cost effective in-stock choice on the prime. We will then create a ‘widget’ and drop it into the shopping for information, and that is the place you see the inexperienced ‘purchase it at…’ buttons.
When you click on on that hyperlink, your browser’s cookies monitor the press and if you happen to go on to make a purchase order, the retailer pays us a small fee to say thanks for the sale. Once once more, this does not have an effect on which merchandise we suggest, as a result of you should buy all the things on-line nowadays!
Why you’ll be able to belief Cyclingnews
Our loyalty is to our readers as a result of with out you, we would not have a job.
That loyalty extends all through all of our content material, from our race information protection to our premium content material, however particularly in our purchasing guides and offers roundups. The merchandise we suggest are there as a result of we have now tried them, preferred them and assume you’ll too.
The guides we select to put in writing are based mostly on search knowledge from Google and elsewhere. The purpose we have not written a information to the finest aero leg heaters is as a result of our knowledge tells us no one desires to learn that. However, we all know that 1000’s of individuals seek for finest highway bike helmet and that is why that exists.
The identical rings true with evaluations too. We take a look at 1000’s of merchandise when compiling our purchasing guides, and as such we will not write evaluations for all of them. Instead, we prioritise reviewing the merchandise that our readers are looking for, nevertheless, we do sometimes write about merchandise that we consider can be attention-grabbing to our readers. Will’s current evaluation of some head-up-display glasses springs to thoughts right here.
You may also study extra about how we take a look at biking merchandise.