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Let’s start with our exclusive interview with Ben O’Connor, the Aussie climbing sensation who has been making waves in the peloton. On the back of an impressive 2024 and his move to Team Jayco–AlUla in 2025, O’Connor shares his aspirations for the upcoming season and reflects on his journey to the top of the sport. We also have a chat with the ever-charismatic Julian Alaphilippe. The French superstar opens up about his goals for 2025 with Tudor Pro Cycling and how he plans to recapture the magic that made him a two-time world champion. Meanwhile, with the Spring Classics approaching, we set ourselves an audacious challenge: can a cyclist ride from London to Flanders and back in a single day, conquering the region’s most iconic climbs? Our Big Ride takes…
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‘The 2008 Addict frame weighed 790g and the Limited build just 5.9kg, which was pretty spectacular in 2008,’ says Scott product designer Christian Holweck. ‘But when you’re judging the weight of a complete bike, you have to look at all the parts. Back then we had rim brakes, very thin tubular tyres and rims, mechanical gearing and light but ridiculous gear ratios: 11-23t. Who would ride this now except down a hill? ‘Today we’re starting on the back foot because we’re dealing with components that are heavier, but that was the challenge we set ourselves. Could we accommodate these modern constraints and get back to this magic number of 5.9kg?’ The answer finally arrived 16 years, 10 engineers and a four-year product cycle later: the Scott Addict RC Ultimate. You…
Maxxis High Road G3 road race tyre $89.95, kwtimports.com.au The team at Cyclist fitted a fresh set of Maxxis High Road G3 to the roadie just ahead of the summer holidays. Maxxis promises its third generation of the High Road tyre is a do-it-all product, providing lower rolling resistance and better puncture protection than the previous gen. It’s also lighter than the old model and sports a new tread pattern. The tyre is available as a tube-tyre or tubeless version in 25mm, 28mm and 30mm. We opted for the 28mm tubeless version and, after a few nervous moments wrestling with it to seat on our rims, hit the road with great success. The tyres proved fast and grippy and on their first ride came within one second of a PR on…
Let’s get right to the big question: will Tadej Pogačar get ‘even better’, as he proclaims is his goal for 2025? He’d have to win two Grand Tours, add the Worlds in Rwanda and sandwich all this with two Monuments and a flurry of other solo triumphs – and that would merely match his exploits in 2024. But given the 6,000-plus metres of climbing scheduled for the Worlds road race in Kigali, the Slovenian will surely be the big favourite going in. The Tour momentum lies with him while a milestone Vuelta victory would complete his Grand Slam; he’s peerless in Liège and Lombardia, while he has improved in every Milan-San Remo thus far and came third last year. So, you do the maths. If, as I suspect, Pogačar doesn’t…
Cyclist: How do you look back on a pretty spectacular 2024 season? Ben O’Connor: With a smile. It was kind of fantastic – very few things went wrong. There are definitely things I can improve on so that’s always fun to rattle your head around. Even though it’s such a success and you think you should just be over the moon, there are always better performances, results, ways you can handle yourself in situations. But it was a dream year. I put together my best self every single race pretty much. Cyc: What have you identified as the key factors for that consistency? BOC: I don’t know if it’s my age or that my body has learned to deal with the training load. Physically I’ve improved every year since I started. Maybe…
