The Pedaler

For our very first Gran Tourer collab, there was no one better suited than Rodeo Adventure Labs. We love their bikes, their rider-centric mentality and their unbridled enthusiasm. Rodeo's founder, Stephen Fitzgerald has ridden our regular GT into the ground. Except it’s not in the ground - it’s still going strong.

Salzburg cyclist Stuart Marven gives the Night Mono road cycling shoes a shakedown over the Austrian Alps. With camera in hand and strudel in our jersey pockets, we went along for the ride.

Eco-tech innovator Bloom, a Mississippi-based brand that supplies the footwear industry with plant-based performance-driven foam, is on a mission to replace the EVA in your sneakers.

The festive season is here, and with it comes the Quoc Road Cycling Gift Guide: a handpicked selection of Hors Categorie products that any fan of the blacktop would be pleased to have plonked under their front wheel come the special day. Enjoy.

The hack is a winter commuter, grocery shopper and gravel mover. It’s the best of everything. It can even make a good show on the road when salt has your best bike holed up at home with a cappuccino and a copy of Rouleur.

The message arrived while I was closing my laptop, just as the shadows were settling in for the night. “How do you feel about early mornings?” How did I feel about early mornings? Generally fine, as long as I’m wrapped up in a duvet, slumbering when they happen.

“Carbon can feel like a one-way conversation, but steel wants to be playful; it encourages you to push on,” says Robert Quirk, waxing lyrical about his frame material of choice at Quirk cycles while phoning in on the eve of his flight to ride the Silk Road Mountain Race in a pair of Quoc Gran Tourer Gravel Bike Shoes

Bringing a handlebar bag to a carbon-tubed road ride in England is a spicy move. But without a fleet of downtrodden domestiques to shoulder your extra gear, kit-stowing alternatives are thin on the ground when it comes to long days in the saddle. That's where road bike handlebar bags come in.