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The Rondo RUUT Gravel Bike With Adjustable Head Angle
There are various ways to adjust the geometry of your bike, this is definitely one of the more interesting ones. The Rondo RUUT features a “45 º flip chip” in the fork which allows riders to adjust the head angle and fork trail. You can slacken the head angle for rough riding or steepen it…
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Pactimo Releases Tellus Collection – Gravel Focused Apparel
Pactimo is well known for making high quality cycling apparel for the road. More recently, though, they’ve started venturing off-road as well with a full mountain bike line. Now Pactimo is releasing a gravel focused apparel line. Pactimo’s Tellus collection is meant for any off road adventure. The line offers baggier fitting tops and bottoms…
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Video: 50to01: Pila Raw
Some pre-COVID fun. Rat, Sammy and Loose take on Pila with the zoomers back in summer 2019.
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Video: Deep Diving with Kiel & Co.
This is awesome. It’s like Wes Anderson meets SRAM advertisement. The YouTube description doesn’t do it justice: A backyard adventure with the Trek-Segafredo rider. More on this story at SRAM.
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Ritchey’s New Outback V2 is a More Capable Touring Rig
The Ritchey Outback has received some changes for 2020, making is a more capable touring bike. To start, an all-new Ritchey Adventure Fork design at the front comes complete with new cargo mounts. The frame itself also has more braze-ons, including rack and fender mounts. The Ritchey Outback has room for a 700c x 48mm…
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Video: The Alternative: Tour of Flanders, Gravel Edition
Flanders is famous for many things: tales of hard men and legendary riders in ‘De Ronde’ battling the elements by bike, fearsome stories of the legendary cobbled ‘muurs’ that break riders, or, further back in history the fields of Flanders provided a grim backdrop to the devastation of WW1. Flanders is awash with stories and…
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Twin Six Has New Colors for its Standard Rando for 2020
I can’t believe Twin Six’s Standard Rando frame doesn’t get more attention. For just $700, you get a full steel frame with a steel fork with tons of braze-ons and room for a 700c x 43mm or 650b x 48mm tire. For gravel riding and touring it’s a hard bike to beat. For 2020, Twin…
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Video: The Impossible Route – Worlds Hardest Gravel Climb
The Vegan Cyclist takes on the gravel road which winds its way to the top of Mauna Kea, the world’s largest volcano. The paved climb up Mauna Kea is perhaps the hardest climb that can be conquered by bike climbing from sea level to 13,803 feet in one go. But on the other side of…
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Alchemy Releases the First American Made Carbon eBike
Building upon its popular Ronin gravel bike, the e-Ronin is Alchemy’s newest gravel bike offering. The Fazua’s Evation drive system powered e-bike, like the Ronin, is made right here in Denver, Colorado. As such, the e-Ronin is the first American-made carbon gravel electric bike. The e-Ronin is available in custom geometry and paint. More info…
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Wolf Tooth Components Morse Cages Available in Limited Edition Gold Finish
The Wolf Tooth Components Morse Cage is a collaboration with King Cage. WTC provides the base plate which allows for 32mm of vertical adjustment and King Cage provides its beautiful bottle cage. The raw titanium version is one of my favorite bottle cages. Nice flexibility in spacing and great bottle holding strength. Now, you can…
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Cane Creek eeWings Cranks Now Available in Raven Black
I don’t know who doesn’t like the look of raw titanium, but if you do Cane Creek’s eeWings Raven cranks give a new look to their titanium crank arms, giving them a deep gloss black. Weight weenies watch out, the automotive finish adds a full 3g. In addition to the new color, there’s also a…
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Video: GT Bicycles “Full Travel” – The Story of GT’s Suspension Development
Mountain bike suspension has come a long ways over the past 30 years. GT Bicycles has documented its journey in a documentary, “Full Travel: GT’s Suspension Development Story.” The film by Pipeline Digital Media, Full Travel is the work of filmmakers Todd Huffman and Don Hoffman, who were both employed by GT in the 1990’s.…
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Video: Grinduro – Distant Relatives
Follow four athletes as they race the Grinduro circuit around the world. A love of Maxin’ & Relaxin’ unites riders around the globe In the five short years since its inception, GRINDURO! has become the rallying cry for a movement that is captivating cyclists of all types (road racers, urban fixed gear riders, mountain bike…
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Zwift “Tour for All” Charity Event for Doctors Without Borders
Today Zwift announced a new event titled “Tour for All”, a charity event to support Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in response to COVID-19. Five Zwift Tour for All Stages From May 4 to 30 Zwift’s Tour for All will be a five-stage event running from May 4th to 30th. Stages will be held…
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Intro to Zwift Racing: Integrating Zwift Racing into Training, How to Win and Everything Else You Need to Know
Races and group rides on Zwift have grown like crazy over the past year. You can jump on and find a race with 30-50 participants per classification at just about any hour. Racing on Zwift allows for year-round competition. It’s safe. And from a training standpoint, it’s hard to argue with the mental effect of taking…
