About Xyvrins
Honest, tested advice for people who love to ride
Xyvrins is an independent cycling publication about road riding, bikes and gear, maintenance and training. We help riders spend more time enjoying the road and less time second-guessing their kit.
Why we started Xyvrins
Most cycling advice falls into one of two traps. It is either wildly impractical — buy the superbike, chase every last watt, replace everything each season — or it is a thin excuse to sell you something. We wanted a third option: clear, honest writing for people who have real budgets, real weekends, and a genuine love of riding.
Xyvrins started in 2026 as a small collection of notes between riders who kept trading advice on routes, gear, and keeping their bikes running. Those notes turned into articles, and the articles turned into this. Today we publish practical guides across four areas — road cycling, bikes and gear, maintenance and repair, and training and health — all built on the same belief: consistent miles and solid fundamentals beat expensive shortcuts every time.
What you can expect
Every article is written or edited by someone who has ridden the routes and used the gear we describe. We favour depth over volume, we update guides when things change, and we are upfront about what we don't know. When we recommend a bike or a component, it is because we'd recommend it to a riding buddy — not because someone paid us to.
You can read more about how we work in our editorial policy.
What we value
The principles behind every article
Ridden, not just spec'd
We ride the routes and use the gear we write about. If a bike or upgrade only shines on a spec sheet and not on the road, we say so.
Rider-first, always
Our recommendations are independent. We are never paid to feature a product, and we keep advertising clearly separate from editorial.
Substance over marginal gains
We don't chase every fashionable upgrade. The goal is riding more and enjoying it — not spending more to save a couple of watts.
Plain and honest
No jargon, no padding, and no pretending the trade-offs don't exist. We explain things the way we'd explain them to a mate at the café stop.
The team
Who writes Xyvrins
Owen is a former club racer who has ridden more miles than his odometers can remember and coached riders back from plateaus. He writes about road riding and training with a coach's eye and a realist's patience, and believes consistency beats every shiny marginal gain.
Marta is a lifelong rider and tinkerer who has built her own wheels and tested gear in every kind of weather. She reviews bikes and kit honestly, with the trade-offs left in, and has little patience for hype that doesn't survive contact with a real ride.
Jayden spent years as a bike-shop mechanic and still gets a quiet satisfaction from a perfectly indexed drivetrain. He explains repairs the way he'd show a friend across the workstand — plainly, step by step, so you can do it yourself and trust the result.