Guy Kesteven

Opinion Guy Kesteven has been testing bikes and kit professionally for nearly 27 years but he still absolutely loves every click, tweak, footage review and re-ride of the evaluation process

Buyer's Guide Our pick of the best cheap MTB pedals you can buy, whether you're looking to go flat or clipless on the trails

Opinion For a bike genre founded on opening up boundaries and celebrating freedom, gravel riding seems to really stir up emotions. But what particular beefs does our tech ed Guy Kesteven have about the mostly wonderful world between road bikes and mountain bikes?

Buyer's Guide The best gravel shoes that will make your pedaling more efficient so you can ride faster and longer in comfort

Buyer's Guide Our expert pick of the top glove options that give ultimate grip and protection all year round

Opinion Guy Kesteven is a firm believer in the mental as well as physical benefits of biking at all ages, but now the evidence is so strong even Hollywood is picking up on it

Buyer's Guide Our experts choose 10 of the best mountain bike sunglasses that will protect your eyes from debris, harmful UV rays, and keep you looking stylish on the trail

Opinion Mountain and gravel bike riders have to cope with a lot. Rocks, roots, drops, techy climbs, slippery surfaces, filthy weather, stinging, scratching plants, punctures, mechanicals. But whatever level you ride at, sometimes the worst challenge you can face is other people

Buyer's Guide No matter your riding style and budget, our experts have picked out the best mountain bike brakes available

Opinion E–MTBs get you further, or fit in more fun runs however fit you are (or aren’t), but which design trends are dead ends and which features fail? Guy Kesteven gets revved up about his biggest e–MTB frustrations

Opinion Guy Kesteven had an awesome day previewing the new gravel bike trails at Coed y Brenin, but what does this reinvention of past pioneering tell us about the future of off-road riding?

Buyer's Guide The best enduro helmets offer good ventilation and high levels of protection for riding fast on technical, DH-graded MTB terrain

Feature Guy Kesteven roasts horrible headsets, compromised cockpits, e-MTB mount madness, stupid storage and hidden spec horror so you don’t have to suffer at the hands of dumb design

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Opinion It’s Local Bike Shop Day on May the 4th and Guy Kesteven reckons that sort of initiative is a great idea. However, he also thinks a brief forensic study of how the day has officially been presented tells us why some small scale shops might be struggling.

Buyer's Guide Whether you're riding XC or enduro, here's our test team's choice of the best dropper posts to get your saddle out of the way for maximum maneuverability

Opinion Guy Kesteven reckons it’s time most of us stopped thinking about what we can upgrade on our mountain bikes to go faster and look at the real weak link in the system – ourselves

Feature Guy Kesteven is one of the most experienced bike testers in the world, so what does he think are essential features on a cheap gravel / all-road bike?

Feature Starting cheap, seeing the whole system, trying before you buy, measuring carefully, or servicing rather than upgrading. What can our most experienced test editor tell you about improving your mountain bike?