If you wanna dive down a real cycling rabbit hole, simply Google “rim brakes vs. disc brakes.” You’ll turn up a treasure trove of road tests, opinion pieces and Reddit posts weighing the relative ...

The Road CL is specifically designed for road bike hydraulic disc brake systems. As road bike disc brakes are popularising the British component specialist saw an opportunity to introduce its new ...

It has a U-brake? That’s much more of a road-bike brake; they usually don’t even fit over the fat tires on mountain bikes. In any event, Shimano’s V-brake design now dominates the non-disc brake ...

Almost two decades have passed since hydraulic disc brakes came to mountain bikes, and the technology is now ubiquitous on dirt. So it wasn’t a stretch to think that it would quickly make its way onto ...

A road bike groupset is the collection of components that make you stop and go – in other words, the drivetrain, shifters and brakes. Despite the differences between the brands, the components all do ...

When most people think of hydraulic brakes on bicycles, they probably picture modern mountain bikes with disc brakes. As early as 1987, however, German bicycle component manufacturer Magura was making ...

The latest 12-speed electronic road bike groupsets are excellent – but I reckon Shimano Ultegra R8000 is a better choice, even eight years after its launch. I'll explain why, before outlining the ...