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newsimage-cannockNEW.pngBike LIVE! Your chance to test ride top bikes from top cycling brands on the roads and trails of Cannock Chase
The road.cc tour bus is heading north for its next event: Bike Live. This time we're setting up camp at Cannock Chase, an area just perfect for test riding the latest bikes from some of the biggest brands. This time not ony will there be the chance to ride the latest road bikes from some of cycling's top brands, there will also be adventure, gravel and mountain bikes to throw a loeg over too.
Bike LIVE is our series of demo days with the first one being held on this Sunday at the Odd Down Circuit, Bath, a purpose built, traffic free, tarmac race track. We've still got a few tickets left for that one so if you want to come click here for details.
Cannock Chase will be hosting this second one on Saturday 8th April and with the likes of Rose, Canyon, Giant, Liv, Ribble, Wilier Trestina, Raleigh, Whyte, Kalkhoff, Haibike and Cube already signed up it’s going to be the perfect day for you to try out as many bikes as you can. With our stablemate site off-road.cc soon to be launched there won't just be road bikes on offer, there'll be plenty of MTB's to test as well if knobbly tyres are your thing.
As you can see from that list we’ve also got some e-bike manufacturers coming too, working with our sister site ebiketips.co.uk .
Cannock and the surrounding area has every kind of riding you could want. There's a great network of quiet country roads, waymarked mountain bike trails and dirt roads for testing gravel and all-purpose bikes. Whatever you want to try, there'll be riding for you. It’s the ultimate N+1 demo day!
Everyone who attends Bike LIVE will also get a free goody bag with great gifts from road.cc, Weldtite and more.
Tickets are priced at £20 while our early bird offer is in place and are available here, if things are anything like this Sunday's Bath event then tickets will go fast so don't hang about.
Since writing his first bike review for road.cc back in early 2009 senior product reviewer Stu has tested more than a thousand pieces of kit, and hundreds of bikes.
With an HND in mechanical engineering and previous roles as a CNC programmer/machinist, draughtsman and development engineer (working in new product design) Stu understands what it takes to bring a product to market. A mix of that knowledge combined with his love of road and gravel cycling puts him in the ideal position to put the latest kit through its paces.
He first made the switch to road cycling in 1999, primarily for fitness, but it didn’t take long for his competitive side to take over which led to around ten years as a time triallist and some pretty decent results. These days though riding is more about escapism, keeping the weight off and just enjoying the fact that he gets to ride the latest technology as part of his day job.
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