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We're gradually creeping towards summer and we all know what that means - sunglasses season is nearly here (ignore that for cyclists almost every season is sunglasses season, that ruins it). Anyway, sunnies are one of those fantastic items that you dont need more of but you do want more of, which makes buying them all the more exciting.  Never ones to miss a beat, 100% is way ahead of us with some extremely cool designs for SS22 that are guaranteed to make you want to hide that credit card just to resist temptation. 

Riding with a phone can be tough. You dont really want to ride with it in your hand because that means only one hand on the bars (and less attention on your surroundings, too, which is far from ideal). But it's not like in a car where you can have a satnav on your dashboard or a phone mount on your windscreen because, well, you dont have a dashboard or a windscreen. So what is there to do? That's where Quad Lock comes in. With its super simple quarter-turn mount, Quad Lock is the ideal partner to fix your phone to your bars or stem, leaving you to concentrate on riding the bike but with the screen in front of you - very much like a satnav in your car. With a comprehensive range of hardy phone cases, Quad Lock can cater for almost any major phone brand and they all attach using the same system. Better than that, Quad Lock also makes a range of accessories for bike and car - so you can use the same phone case to attach your phone to both your bike and car, no more messing around with

Keeping on top of component wear is one of the most important things when it comes to keeping your bike on the road (or off-road) for as long as possible. The drivetrain is a key area to focus one, because the main components there in the chain, cassette and chainrings all have an effect one one another and when one begins to wear it will speed up wear on the other parts (as well as the jockey wheels on your rear derailleur).  In the below video Truman from Park Tool show you how to check the wear on your cassette without having to change the chain and ride around. Cassettes can be tricky to judge by eye because by the time the teeth are looking worn, you should have changed it a long time before!

So you're planning a big ride? Great. There's nothing better than enjoying a day out in the saddle (unless the weather's awful but, you know, that's character building, right?). One thing that can spoil a ride very quickly is a bike that's not working properly. Clicking gears, squealing brakes, punctures or worse are at best a real motiviation-killer and a worst a day ender. It only takes a few minutes to check whether you're bike is ready for a ride, so here are a few things to think about that'll make sure you have a ride you'll remember for all the right reasons, not a day to forget. Gear indexing There's nothing more annoying on a long bike ride than gears that are clicking or jumping. Most of the time your gears will be perfectly fine, but if you've travelled with you bike before the ride there's a chance that your rear mech may have been knocked which can cause things to be slightly off. Stick the bike in a workstand (or get a mate to hold it) and just cycle through

Aerodynamics has probably been the defining trait of road cycling ever since Greg LeMond beat Laurent Fignon on the final stage of the Tour de France in 1989. Going faster stopped simply being about beating the wind, it became about cheating the wind, and that's progressed from just time trails onto road stages, with road racers everywhere trying to figure out how to get a few seconds faster - or save a few watts - anywhere they can.  Lazer's new Vento road helmet follows that lead, designed to be fastest at a 15 degree angle in a sprint position it's Lazer's fastest road helmet ever and currently on the heads of Team Jumbo Visma in the pro peloton.  You might think that a helmet this fast would be warm, right? Well no, actually. With 13 vents, the Vento uses Lazer's Venturi Effect Ventilation System to draw cool air through the front of the helmet and channel warm air out the rear.  One other innovation on the Vento  is the new ScrollSys retention

Lazer is proud to present KinetiCore, the world’s first fully integrated rotational impact technology for cycling helmets. In development for over a decade, KinetiCore will change the way people think about brain protection technology as not only does it provide improved protection for cyclists but does so while making helmets lighter, improving airflow and increasing comfort. The development of KinetiCore began just over ten years ago when awareness of the dangers of rotational impact began to improve, and technologies starting appearing in the market to combat those effects. Lazer decided to create its own proprietary technology which meant throwing out everything the design team knew about helmets and starting again from scratch. The first step was assessment of how different types of impact affect cyclists, and using advanced simulations Lazer created thousands of templates to model and understand how to combat those impacts. The breakthrough happened when the

It's not always easy to balance being a parent with, well, anything else to be honest, but one person who does it - and does it with style - is the incredibly rad Polly Clark. As well as being a mother (and grandmother!) she is an experienced mountain biking guide with @MTBCymru and yoga instructor living in mid-Wales. Polly talks about the challenges of juggling parenthood with an extreme sport and explains that it is never too late to start cycling.You're a mother and a grandmother right? To how many children? Yep,

Madison Saracen's Matt Walker and Jordan Williams are pretty handy bike riders. Actually, they're a lot better than handy, they're incredible. Matt was the 2020 UCI DH World Cup overall winner, and Jordan has already won a European Junior Championships and made the podium at the World Junior champs too. Basically they're both riders you (and we) wish we could be. But what do they get up to when they're not racing? And what do they call their local trails?  Well here's your answer as Matt and Jordan take us for a spin at their respective local spots and make riding them look incredibly easy. So sit back, enjoy, and marvel at how two pro riders spend some of their free time. 

A little bit of home maintenance work can go a long way to making sure your bike keeps working perfectly. Here are five tools that’ll help you on the way to cycling nirvana...