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Cube has launched two new electric urban hybrid bikes, the Editor Hybrid 360 and Supreme Hybrid C:62, while its Fold Hybrid and Compact Hybrid have been refreshed with all-new frames. There are also updates to Cube's existing line-up, with additional belt drive Deluxe models.The German brand has made changes to its other lines, too. The Kathmandu Hybrid has a new stem, an updated suspension seatpost and an integrated frame lock. There is now a second model with Enviolo automatic continuously variable shifting.Meanwhile, the Cube Touring Hybrid is now available with Boschs latest Intuvia 200 display, while the Longtail Hybrid cargo bikes frame has been updated too. More on Cube's 2027 range update Cube's new Attain endurance bike costs less than 2,000 for carbon and 1,000 for alloy Cube's new Litening Aero C:68X is 10.4 watts faster than before and cheaper than every 2026 Tour de France bike The Fritzz is back: Cube unveils new high-pivot enduro bike alongside updated trail and downhill bikes Cube Editor Hybrid 360 The Editor Hybrid uses Bosch's Hub Line motor. Bosch The new Editor Hybrid 360 has classic flat-bar bike looks and includes Boschs newly launched 45Nm rear hub drive and an integrated, removable 360Wh battery.All specs include lights, mudguards, a rear rack and a kickstand. The Pro spec is singlespeed and includes a Gates belt drive. Cube claims a 19.2kg weight and the bike is priced at 1,899.Editor Hybrid prices start from 1,699 and range up to 2,999.Cube Supreme Hybrid C:62 Deluxe The Supreme Hybrid has a carbon frame and there's a spec with an Enviolo hub gear. The Supreme Hybrid C:62 Deluxe has a step-through carbon frame with a 50mm-travel Suntour suspension fork and is equipped with a mid-drive 100Nm Bosch Performance Line CX motor and 600Wh battery, as well as a Gates belt drive and a Bosch Kiox 500 display. Cube claims weights from 24kg.There are two specs, SLX and SLT. The higher SLT spec has Enviolo shifting and Bosch ABS included, in addition to the lights, mudguards, rack, kickstand and frame lock shared with the SLX spec.The Cube Supreme Hybrid C:62 Deluxe SLT has a claimed 26.4kg weight and is priced at4,899, with specs available for the carbon-framed bike from 4,499.Cube Fold Hybrid and Compact Hybrid Cube has updated the frame of the Fold Hybrid, making it easier to carry. Cube has redesigned the alloy frames for its space-saving electric bikes. Both include a rear carrier and enable you to fit a front carrier. Both are also available in a Deluxe spec with a Gates belt drive.The Fold Hybrids new frame has an updated folding mechanism as well as a modified integral carry handle that Cube says is more ergonomic.The Cube Fold Hybrid Deluxe 540 has a 75Nm Bosch Performance Line mid-drive motor with a 540Wh Bosch PowerPack 540 battery and Bosch Purion 200 display. Theres a Shimano Nexus 5-speed hub gear.Cube claims a 25.5kg bike weight and sells the bike for 2,999. The Fold Hybrid range starts at 2,699 and the Compact Hybrid from 2,499.

Tommy Campbell: the man who gave Irish cycling a lifetime IrishCyclingNews Obituary 10 August 2026 IrishCyclingNews Tommy Campbell: the man who gave Irish cycling a lifetimeRider, commissaire, administrator, board member and journalist Tommy Campbell, who wrote the Irish Cycling Diary on this website, died on Monday.Most people in cycling pick a lane. Tommy Campbell never did.He rode. He officiated, for many years as Chief Commissaire of the Junior Tour of Ireland. He administered. He sat on the board of the federation. He brought sponsors to the sport when nobody else could find them. And through all of it, he wrote for the Evening Herald, the Irish Independent and the Sunday Independent, for Cyclingnews, for IrishCycling.com, and every Friday for years on this website.Tommy Campbell died on Monday, 10 August 2026.The commissaireTo a generation of young Irish riders, Tommy was the man overseeing the race.He was Chief Commissaire at the Junior Tour of Ireland for many years, and officiated at many other stage races besides. In its tribute, the Junior Tour remembered a commissaire who insisted on fairness while making allowance for the fact that the riders in front of him were still learning their trade and who made sure he gave everyone on the race the time to be heard, whatever the issue.Anyone who has worked a stage race knows how rare that combination is. The commissaire who is firm without being cold; who can give a decision a team manager hates and still get a handshake at the finish. On a junior race it matters more again, because the riders are teenagers, the mistakes are real, and how they are handled shapes whether a young rider stays in the sport at all. Tommy got that.An ambassadorIn its tribute, Cycling Ireland called him a long-time Cycling Ambassador, and said he had been involved in the sport all his life as rider, commissaire and administrator, as well as through what the federation described as his fantastic commitment as a cycling journalist. He was, they said, always flying the flag for the sport at every opportunity.His fingerprints are on the structure of Irish cycling itself. Cycling Irelands statement traces him through every stage of the federations journey to its present form: senior administrator with the Irish Cycling Federation, member of the Irish Cycling Tripartite Committee, and finally a Board Member of Cycling Ireland.He was also, by the federations own account, the man who could get a few punts out of anybody. He promoted some of the best races and events in the country and introduced major brands to cycling sponsorship Guinness among them. In a sport perpetually short of money, that is no footnote. Races ran because Tommy made calls.His smile and his happiness will be missed by all.Cycling IrelandThe DiaryFor a lot of years this website carried Tommys Cycling Diaries the Irish Cycling Diary, out every Friday.It was a column in the old sense, and there is hardly a thing like it left in Irish sport. Results and previews, yes, but wrapped in opinion, mischief and memory. He wrote in capitals when he wanted you to hear him shouting. He nominated his fancies for the weekend, backed them with his own money, and reported his losses to readers with great good humour when the shirt was going off his back. He had opinions on how the sport was run, and having sat at the table for decades he had earned the right to voice them.He wrote obituaries better than anyone. When Colm Christle, the first winner of the Rs in 1953, died in late 2018, Tommy recalled interviewing him years before and described the old champion as pedalling into history all those years ago. That was the Diary at its best: a man who had been present for most of it, reaching back and pulling the past into the present for readers who never saw it.And he never stopped promoting the small events. A club promotion in Newbridge nearly derailed at midnight, and the Kildare family who rescued it. The Masters Championships in Wexford, where hed gone to school. A youth league started in Carrick-on-Suir back in the sixties. He gave them all their column inches, week after week, because he thought they mattered.The column was built on the telephone. Riders and organisers have described how Tommy would ring them most Thursdays through the season, gathering what he needed before the Friday piece went up the same calls feeding his newspaper work. He was, by every account, the man who had the inside scoop on everything going on in Irish cycling, and he got it the old way: by talking to people, week after week, for decades.The wider recordLong before the Diary, Tommy carried Irish cycling into the national press. His byline ran across the Independent group titles Irish Independent, Evening Herald and Sunday Independent in an era when column inches for the sport were fought for week by week.His reach went further still. He contributed to Cyclingnews for many years, filing Irish results to an international audience from as far back as 2002 and covering the biggest races on the calendar, including live reporting from MilanSan Remo. And on IrishCycling.com his weekend roundups ran for years alongside interviews in which he asked riders and organisers what they admired and what ailed the sport, and printed their answers at length.Wikipedias record of Irish National Championship results still cites Tommy Campbells reports as its source. That is the quiet measure of a chronicler: the history exists because he wrote it down.The manTommy lived in Bray, Co. Wicklow. He was a Wexford man by schooling a St Peters boy, as he noted himself in the Diary when the Masters Championships returned to the town where he went to school. Outside the sport he worked for years with Kraft Foods, though anyone who met him in that capacity seems mainly to remember the long conversations about bikes that followed.CalpeFor a good number of years through the An Post cycling team era, when Sean Kellys squad wintered in Spain An Post brought the Irish cycling press out to Calpe for the team launch, and Tommy was always among the party.Those trips are where you got to know him properly. The launch itself was the excuse; what you remember is the rest of it Tommy working the room, greeting riders and staff hed known since they were juniors, gathering the stories that would surface in the Diary weeks later. He was in his element among the crew. And in the gaps between the formal business there was the pleasure of watching a man who had given his life to the sport simply enjoying being in the middle of it: the sunshine, the coffee, the talk, the company of people who spoke his language. Tommy, in the An Post cap, with Paul Butler at the team launch in Calpe, Spain. Cycling Ireland president Ciaran McKenna is pictured right.The train from BrayBy Barry Sutton IrishCyclingNewsIll miss his calls. They came about cycling, mostly but nearly as often about his computer.He rang regularly, and it was never a short conversation. It would start as a two-minute call about some small thing and then wander off down every avenue going but always, somehow, back to cycling. An hour later youd put the phone down having covered half the sport and most of the country, and it felt like it had taken two minutes. And you always came away from it wiser to the world than you were before you picked up.He rang me one Monday morning with some problem or other on the PC. Send it down to me, I said, thinking of the post. The next day I got a call from reception to say there was someone here to see me. It was Tommy. He had got on the train in Bray with the computer under his arm and travelled the length of the country to Limerick to hand it to me himself.We had lunch. He gave me the PC and went home. I fixed it that evening and rang him.The next day, another call from reception. He had made the whole trip again to collect it.Two hundred kilometres each way, two days running, for a machine that could have gone in a box. When I said something about it, he just grinned that infectious grin of his and said sure, its free transport.That was the thing about Tommy Id say he enjoyed every mile of it. The journey was an excuse for the lunch, and the lunch was an excuse for the talk, and the talk was always, one way or another, about cycling.A legend of a guy.And in Calpe he did me a turn Ive never forgotten.Wed been told to bring helmets and cycling shoes out with us. Extra luggage, I thought Ill hardly be needing mine. Then a ride out with the team was arranged, and there I was with no shoes and no helmet.Tommy took it upon himself to sort it. He went round the whole camp cornering people Sean Kelly and the rest of the crew included until he had a helmet and a pair of shoes in my size. I was out riding with the team the next day.Cycling Ireland said in their tribute this week that Tommy was always the man who could get a few punts out of somebody, and that he brought big sponsors like Guinness into the sport. I can vouch for the technique. He turned it on a pair of shoes for a journalist who hadnt packed properly, and it worked just as well.Cycling will miss him dearly, and so will I.TributesThe response to the news has been extraordinary in its consistency. One word appears again and again in the hundreds of messages left on the Junior Tours announcement: gentleman.Sean Kelly called him a true gentleman. Riders remember him seeking them out at races to make sure they got expenses to cover their travel. Trainee commissaires remember his encouragement. Dutch teams who came to the Junior Tour from 1997 onwards remember him in the commissaires car. Club men from Dublin Wheelers to Bray Wheelers claim him as a friend of theirs.The recurring theme is a man whose enthusiasm was infectious several people made the same observation independently, that you came away from a conversation with Tommy convinced Irish cycling was on the up. Another noted that he helped anybody, regardless of club, and that he was among those who fought to unify Irish cycling through the ICF years.More than one person said the same thing: you could write a book about what Tommy did for this sport.A place in the Hall of FameCycling Irelands Hall of Fame honours the people who built this sport. Among them are five men recognised in part for the Tripartite Committee work that unified Irish cycling Tommy sat on that committee too. It honours JJ McCormack, who conceived the Junior Tour Tommy was the man who ran it on the road for years afterwards. It honours Peter Purfield, who founded the website that became IrishCycling.com Tommy filed to it every week for the best part of two decades.His contribution runs straight through the middle of theirs, and he is not yet among them.IrishCyclingNews intends to submit Tommy Campbells name for consideration at the next review of Hall of Fame candidates. The case is a straightforward one: rider, commissaire, administrator, Tripartite member, Board Member, promoter, the man who brought sponsors like Guinness into Irish cycling, and the journalist who kept the record of it all for decades. Few people in the history of the sport in this country have given it so much across so many different roles.Anybody who wishes to add their name in support is welcome to be in touch. Given the response of the last few days, we suspect there will be no shortage.He just loved cycling.He was of that generation who understood that the job was never about the writer. It was about the riders, the organisers, the marshals in wet high-vis on a February corner. He gave them all their place in the record, and he did it for a lifetime.Strip away the titles the commissaires licence, the board seat, the bylines in three national papers, the sponsors he talked into the sport and whats left is simpler than any of it. Everything else was only the shape that love took.ArrangementsFuneral arrangements had not been announced at the time of publication. This piece will be updated when details are confirmed.Ar dheis D go raibh a anam dlis.IrishCyclingNews extends its deepest sympathies to the Campbell family,and to Tommys many friends and colleagues across Irish cycling and Irish journalism.

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Cube has announced its 2027 models for the Attain C:62 carbon endurance bike, with specs from 1,999, and the Attain alloy bike, priced from 999.For 2,499, the Cube Attain C:62 SLX offers 105 Di2 electronic shifting alongside Newmen 38mm carbon wheels with Schwalbe Clik valves and an integrated carbon cockpit. It has a claimed 8.5kg weight.Newmen is Cubes in-house wheel and component brand, but is gaining an increasing presence on other brands bikes. Canyon, for example, fits Newmen wheels to some 2027 specs of its Endurace CF and Ultimate CF road bikes. More on Cube's 2027 range update Cube launches four urban ebikes including low-maintenance belt-drive models Cube's new Litening Aero C:68X is 10.4 watts faster than before and cheaper than every 2026 Tour de France bike The Fritzz is back: Cube unveils new high-pivot enduro bike alongside updated trail and downhill bikes We were impressed by the 2025 Cube Attain C:62 SLT's ride and value for money when we reviewed the bike. Andy Lloyd / Our Media Although the frameset is carried over, the 2027 Attain C:62 models offer even better value than last year. When we reviewed the top-spec Attain C:62 SLT in 2025, we remarked on its amazing spec for the money, which we reckoned would cost around twice as much from other brands.It was good to ride, too, with direct handling and power transfer, paired with comfort from an absence of road buzz. Cube's spec includes Newmen carbon wheels. Andy Lloyd / Our Media Cube claims a 1,150g frame weight for a size M and theres clearance for 34mm tyres, although there are no mudguard mounts.There are seven sizes available, from 47cm to 62cm.Cube sells the Attain C:62 in three specs, all with 32mm Continental tyres.There are also updates to the alloy Attain bikes, which now all come with either Shimano CUES or 105 hydraulic disc brakes.2027 Cube Attain range and pricing detailsAttain C:62 Race carbon Groupset: Shimano 105 Wheelset: Newmen Performance R.32 Claimed weight: 8.9kg Price: 1,999Attain C:62 SLX carbon Groupset: Shimano 105 Di2 Wheelset: Newmen Advanced C.38 Claimed weight: 8.5kg Price: 2,499Attain C:62 SLT carbon Groupset: Shimano Ultegra Wheelset: Newmen Advanced A.50 Claimed weight: 7.8kg Price: 3,199Attain Pro alloy Groupset: Shimano CUES 9-speed Wheelset: Acid Pro RA 2.3 Aero Disc Claimed weight: 10.7kg Price: 999Attain Race alloy Groupset: Shimano CUES 11-speed Wheelset: Acid RA 2.3 Aero Disc Claimed weight: 10.4kg Price: 1,199Attain SLX alloy Groupset: Shimano 105 Wheelset: Newmen Performance R.32 Claimed weight: 9.9kg Price: 1,499

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Cube has launched its new Litening Aero C:68X race bike, claiming a 150g reduction in frame weight and a 10.4-watt aerodynamic saving at 45km/h when fitted with its new IC Aero Max integrated handlebar.The new bike has clearance for 34mm-wide tyres and a redesigned seatpost that Cube says improves comfort by 10 per cent.Perhaps most notable, though, is the value. The range starts at 4,999 / 4,999, while the two highest-spec models cost 7,499 / 7,299 arguably making it the best-value race bike ridden at this years Tour de France. More on Cube's 2027 range update Cube's new Attain endurance bike costs less than 2,000 for carbon and 1,000 for alloy Cube launches four urban ebikes including low-maintenance belt-drive models The Fritzz is back: Cube unveils new high-pivot enduro bike alongside updated trail and downhill bikes Lighter and more aerodynamic The seat tube junction has been tidied up. Cube Bikes We first spotted the new bike, with its refined tube shapes, at the Tour Auvergne Rhne-Alpes in June.As the name suggests, the Litening Aero C:68X uses Cube's C:68X carbon, but the company says it has refined its manufacturing processes to remove excess material from the frame.Cube claims this saves 150g from the frame and fork, while improving aerodynamics.A 6.2-watt saving is claimed for the frame compared to the previous Litening Aero, and with the new IC Aero Max integrated cockpit included, the claimed saving rises to 10.4 watts at 45km/h. The head tube is deep, with air-guiding ridges at the upper and lower edges. Cube Bikes Cube hasnt published results of its testing, though, nor how it compares to other contemporary race bikes.That said, the frame has been redesigned to accommodate 34mm tyres, up from the previous bikes outdated limit of 28mm.The geometry is reflective of the vast majority of race bikes in recent years, largely ignoring the more progressive trend of a super-steep seat tube and taller front end. In a size 56cm, there are parallel 73.5-degree head tube and seat tube angles, for example, and the stack is a racy-low 563mm. Geometry 50cm 52cm 54cm 56cm 58cm 60cm 62cm Seat tube length (mm) 460 480 500 520 540 560 580 Top tube length, horizontal (mm) 527 537 550 565 580 592 604 Seat angle () 75 74.2 73.5 73.5 73 72.5 72.5 Head angle () 72.2 74.2 73 73.5 73.5 73.5 73.5 Chainstay length (mm) 410 410 410 410 410 410 410 Head tube length (mm) 110 120 140 160 180 195 210 Wheelbase (mm) 981 981 984 995 1005 1011 1023 BB height to hub (mm) 72 72 69 69 67 67 67 Standover height (mm) 747 762 784 804 824 840 855 Reach (mm) 389 389 389 398 403 405 412 Stack (mm) 514 524 542 563 580 594 609 Seatpost length (mm) 380 380 380 380 380 430 430 Stem angle () -10 -10 -10 -10 -10 -10 -10 Crank length (mm) 165 165 165 170 170 172.5 172.5 Maximum tyre diameter (mm) 696 696 696 696 696 696 696 Maximum tyre width (mm) 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 Stem length (mm) 90 90 100 100 110 120 120 Handlebar width (mm) 380 380 380 400 400 420 420 New integrated cockpit The new IC Aero Max cockpit features notably bladed tops. Cube Bikes The nominally pro-spec bikes come fitted with the new IC Aero Max cockpit, featuring very deep bladed tops. Cube's standard IC Aero handlebar comes fitted to the rest of the range.The Max version features dedicated cut-outs for the handlebar tape, enabling the tape to terminate neatly, while indents on the tops flanks provide Natural Fit palm support, according to Cube.The drops feature a small (undisclosed) amount of flare, with the design intended to balance the aerodynamic benefits of an integrated cockpit with improved hand positioning and comfort. The tops are sculpted to a tight point on the trailing edge. Cube Bikes Cube says the cockpit accounts for part of the 10.4-watt aerodynamic improvement claimed for the complete bike 6.2 watts are attributed to the frame updates specifically.The new Litening Aero also dispenses with the steering fork-stop pin found on the previous model.Cube has also redesigned the carbon seatpost and claims the new design provides a 10 per cent improvement in comfort versus the old one.The company has also expanded the size range, with a new size-62 frame to be made available for the first time, addressing the needs of taller riders who were previously limited by the range's maximum size.Litening Aero C:68X goes 1x There will also be this 1x version of the Litening Aero C:68X. Also new is the Litening Aero C:68X Orbit model, which uses SRAM's 1x13-speed Red XPLR AXS drivetrain with a 10-46T cassette and a single chainring.Cube says removing the front derailleur reduces weight and offers an aerodynamic benefit. At a claimed 6.9kg, the Orbit is the lightest model in the range and costs just shy of 7,000 / 7,000.At the top of the range, the SLT and SLX models use Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 and SRAM Red AXS drivetrains. The former is effectively a replica of the build used by UCI ProTeam Team TotalEnergies, and weve had this bike in for testing prior to launch.All models are supplied with a power meter and Newmen carbon wheelsets as standard, although with some variation of the spec.Competitive pricing The Litening Aero C:68X is priced competitively for a pro-level race bike. Cube Bikes The most significant aspect of the new Litening Aero may be its pricing.The Pro and Race models both cost 4,999 / 4,999, with the former using SRAM Force AXS and the latter Shimano Ultegra Di2 R8100. The bikes share the same C:68X frame platform and all come equipped with dual-sided power meters (SRAMs native power meter, or a 4iiii Precision 3+ on Shimano models).All bikes feature Newmen Streem carbon wheels, with carbon-spoked Vonoa versions appearing on the SRAM Red AXS and Shimano Dura-Ace-equipped models.The 1x Orbit costs 6,999 / 6,999, while the range-topping SLX and SLT models cost 7,499 in the UK and 7,299 in Europe.2027 Cube Litening Aero C:68X range detailsCube Litening Aero C:68X Pro Groupset: SRAM Force AXS Cockpit: IC Aero Wheelset: Newmen Streem A.49/54 Tyres: Continental Grand Prix 5000 S TR, 30mm Price: 4,999 / 4,999Cube Litening Aero C:68X Race Groupset: Shimano Ultegra Di2 R8100 Cockpit: IC Aero Wheelset: Newmen Streem A.49/54 Tyres: Schwalbe Pro One Aero TLR, 28mm Price: 4,999 / 4,999Cube Litening Aero C:68X Orbit Groupset: SRAM Red XPLR AXS 1x13 (10-46T) Cockpit: IC Aero Max Wheelset: Newmen Streem A.49/54 Vonoa Tyres: Pirelli P-Zero Race SL-R, 28mm Price: 6,999 / 6,999Cube Litening Aero C:68X SLX Groupset: SRAM Red AXS Cockpit: IC Aero Max Wheelset: Newmen Streem A.60/66 Vonoa Tyres: Continental Grand Prix 5000 S TR, 28mm Price: 7,499 / 7,299Cube Litening Aero C:68X SLT Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 Cockpit: IC Aero Max Wheelset: Newmen Streem S.60/66 Vonoa Tyres: Schwalbe Pro One Aero TLR, 28mm Price: 7,499 / 7,299