Bike clothing brand Rapha are stepping into the shoes market with their Grand Tour design developed with Giro. The yak leather and carbon-fibre shoes are available now at £300 – either reassuringly expensive or eye-wateringly steep, depending on your point of view.

So, what do you get for your money? Well, as usual with Rapha, there’s a hell of a back story. Let’s start at the top…

Read more: Rapha launch high-end Grand Tour shoes

Trek sticking with same characters for new bike, just in a different order. Expect the Nomade to be next...

If you've been paying attention over the last week or so you'll know that Fabian Cancellara rode a new Trek frame to victory in the Strade Bianchi race over in Italy. We suggested it was a new Pavé-friendly Madone, but the UCI's new approved frames and forks list shows it to be the proud owner of a new name: Domane.

The UCI's no-sticker-no-ride policy means that bikes ridden in UCI-sanctioned races have to be approved, and the list is available on the UCI website. It only gets updated once a month though, so while Spartacus was ripping up the Strade the details of his new bike were still not on the public list, even though it had clearly been approved for racing. So anyway, now we know a little more. Here's a recap.

Read more: Trek Domane breaks cover on the UCI approved list

Italian frame brand Colnago has released pictures and a video of the new K.Zero that will replace the current Flight dual-purpose time-trial and triathlon frame for the 2013 model year.

'2013' of course means that we will be seeing this new carbon frame used by Colnago-sponsored team Europcar this season although our racing department will have a better idea of whether that's likely to mean appearances at the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France what with both Colnago-CSF and last year's TDF folk hero Thomas Voeckler's squad enjoying mere Pro Continental status and therefore only getting a possible wild card entry.

Update: our racing correspondent Simon MacMichael confirms that Colnago-CSF are riding the Giro in May and Europcar will be at the Tour in July, so expect K.Zero in action at both for the time trial stages..

Anyway, what looks different bearing in mind at this stage Colnago are just teasing us on their Facebook page, saying that more details will be on their main website in the next few days?

Read more: Colnago K.Zero time trial frame slips cover + video