Maikel Zijlaard, the 25-year-old cyclist from Rotterdam, ismaking waves with Tudor Pro Cycling Team. Known for his role as a lead-outspecialist, Zijlaard secured his first professional road win earlier this yearin April 2024, triumphing in the prologue of the Tour de Romandie. This victorymarked...

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Sir Chris Hoy, one of the most prominent figures in the history of track and also British cycling, has been diagnosed with cancer and now he has revealed that this is also terminal and he is expected to live up to another two to four years.With all eyes on the Track World Championships this week fo...

Neilson Powless' form really came through at the end of the season and after taking a solo win at Gran Piemonte, the EF Education-EasyPost rider made the trip to Japan and won one of the final races of the season at the Japan Cup.It was a race that, as usual, saw a strong group form over the many l...

Matevz Govekar of Bahrain - Victorious has won the final World Tour stage of the season, curiously for Slovenia who dominated the calendar. In a reduced bunch sprint stage 6 was decided, with Lennert van Eetvelt sealing the overall win as he resisted the attacks on the steep climbs.The gaps were no...

The very first thing I noticed when I received this bottle from the team at Lyon Cycles, the distributor of Hydrapak was the removes 99.99% of ecoli and parasitic cysts boast on the pack. Who knew there were cysts lurking out there to make your day less fun? I will be the first to admit that I am not the worlds most prolific bike packer, I tend to like to ride between B&Bs and hotels with a clean water source rather than wild camp in a tent, bivi or bush and use streams to replenish my water supply.Luckily I ride with people who do love that sort of riding so I was able to give them the Breakaway + bottle to try out in the environment it was designed for.Tim is a veteran of the Tour Divide and numerous Silk road races and will be using the Breakaway + bottle in next years Atlas mountain race. He along with Maria spent a weekend in the Elan Valley in Wales on a route that even though was not far from civilisation can get pretty remote and definately doesnt include shops to top up your water supply. they also had an over night stop in a bothy so wouldnt be carrying enough liquid for drinking and cooking with them. Ideal then to try out the bottle filter system.heres the message I got from Tim A picture paints a thousand words so they sayhow about a picture of some words? Anyway Im sure you get the gist but lets have a look at the bottle in action. This was filmed on that Welsh trip with the Breakaway+ being used with water from a stream I can confirm that Tim and Maria are very much still alive and well and have had no side effects from using the filter bottle and Tim has continued to use the system on his ultra rides ever since.The filter will filter 1 litre of water per minute and is good for 1500 litres before its recommended to be replaced. Spare filters are readily available. The bottle itself is very squeezeable making the whole operation very easy even with freezing cold hands or big thick gloves. The cap also includes a cover to stop the drinking nozzle from being covered in spray (the hydrapak website does describe it as a dust cover..dust! how i laughed!) the whole system, bottle and filter weighs just 114g.To quote Tim again Ive used a few (filter bottles) and this is the best one Ive ever used you cant say fairer than that.more details can be found at the Hydrapak website (not an affiliate link)**if youd like to support these reviews and ukgravelco.com then please consider following this page, the instagram channel, subscribing to the youtube channel all of which are free to do or buying something from the ukgravelco shop, links belowhttps://www.instagram.com/ukgravelco/https://www.youtube.com/@ukgravelcohttps://ukgravelco.bigcartel.com/

Tadej Pogacar has consolidated himself as the strongest and most successful rider in the current peloton without a shadow of a doubt, and his 2024 season is being argued quite realistically as the best year ever by any pro cyclist. Whilst he likely did the right decision to win the World Championshi...

Tom Pidcock's past few weeks have been riddled with indecision over his future. We do not know at this time whether the INEOS Grenadiers rider will stay or leave for another team; and even if he leaves to where this may be. Recently Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team has seemed to be the most likely destination...