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Ed’s Letter

Cyclist Australia

The Venge killer • The new Tarmac SL7 is so aero, Specialized is dropping the Venge

Bikes we’re loving • Three new releases that are getting plenty of water-cooler chat at the Cyclist office

Shimano S-Phyre RC902 racing shoe

Maxxis High Road SL

Fizik Antares Versus Evo 00 Adaptive

Classic Campagnolo cycling cap

Bont Motion cycling shoe

Premax Chamois Cream

Win a pair of Goodyear bike tyres! • Thanks to Goodyear, we’re offering Cyclist readers three sets of tyres from its new Ultra High-Performance and High-Performance range

Down to the wire • On the back of that insane 2020 finish, Felix Lowe looks back at famous lastminute victories at the Tour de France

Q&A Koen de Kort • With almost two decades in the peloton, 38-year-old Koen de Kort is a wise old head of pro cycling. He tells Cyclist about never winning, turning pro in the Armstrong era, and what it’s really like to descend in the gruppetto

Aussie watch • Cyclist always keeps a keen eye on how our homegrown pros are performing. Here’s a wrap-up of how some of our top Aussies have been doing around the world over the past couple of months

Riding for survival • When coronavirus halted pro racing in March, the fear was that sponsors would pull out, revenues would collapse and teams would disappear. Now that racing has resumed, Cyclist assesses the true scale of the fallout

League of their own • By a strange twist of fate, the lower levels of investment in women’s cycling may actually help women’s teams to survive the pandemic relatively unscathed

A moment in time The Convicts of the Road • When the Pélissier brothers abandoned the 1924 Tour de France on only the third stage, it led to one of the era’s most explosive pieces of cycling journalism

Salt and pep up • Getting your sodium intake right will boost your performance on the bike

Can I eat anything if I train enough? • Do what you want – we’re not the boss of you. But maybe read this first……

While we’ve got you • Our expert answers a few quick questions

Curry power • Proof you don’t need meat or expensive alternatives to eat healthy and eat well

Knowledge is power • Power meters can spew out mountains of data, but what do all the numbers mean and what should you do with them? Cyclist gets some expert help to determine what’s watt

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Road to Rio do Rastro • Dividing the Brazilian interior from the Atlantic Ocean is the Serra do Rio do Rastro mountain range. And crossing those mountains is a road. A pretty stunning road

Escape to the country • Go up. Then up some more…

Call of the wild • Get your nature fix in Santa Catarina

The rider’s ride • Swift RaceVox, $10,080 (approx.), swiftcarbon.com

By the numbers • How many is a Brazillion?

Local flavours • Brazil’s not known as a meat and carb place for nothing, and you’ll want both

How we did it

Outside the box • Any bike that features in a pro race has to be built to a set of rules laid down by the sport’s governing body, the UCI. But are those rules stifling designers? Would we have faster, lighter and more space-aged bikes if the rules were dropped? Cyclist finds out

Rules is rules • Just a few of the UCI decrees regulating race bike design

Inside the box • The rules governing frame shape and tube...