Bikes & Frames
If you love riding gravel, but don’t want to spend boatloads of cash on a dedicated bike, Felt has a couple new bike that might fit the bill. Picking up where their single speed CX bikes left off, the Breed lineup from Felt is now designed for gravel roads.
Bikes & Frames
The Grevil is Pinarello’s first foray into the gravel bike market, mixing the high performance and aero features from its road line with the durability and compliance from CX & mountain bikes. The new Grevil is still meant to be a fast road bike, just no longer limited to
Bikes & Frames
Factor best known for its high-performance road bikes, including the One and O2, is coming to the all-road sector with the launch of its new Vista carbon road bike. Factor uses a lot of words and marketing language to describe their tuned ride concept (see below) what you really need
Tech & Data
New York City is pretty much pancake flat. But anything is possible in the future, right? How about KOMs paved in glass? Zwift has a vision for the city in 2118 and you can ride through it. In an effort to further gamify your training and distract you from the
Culture & Opinion
El Capitan is a 3,200-foot-tall wall of sheer granite in Yosemite National Park. The first expedition to climb El Capitan did so in 47 days, the first solo attempt took 10. Professional climber Alex Honnold climbed the Freerider route in June of 2017 in 3 hours 56 minutes, solo,
Culture & Opinion
Nestled in the Indian Garhwal Himalayas sits Janhukot, a very remote and hard to reach peak that rises more than 22,000 feet above sea level. The mountain sits at the end of the Gangotri glacier which is the head of the Ganges. The first attempt to climb Janhukot was
Culture & Opinion
Great article by Jennifer Howard, a professional writer and editor, in the Washington Post last week on how the internet and modern devices have ruined reading. She found herself unable to re-read a Hermann Hesse novel she loved because the “grafted, spasmodic, online style” of modern reading has forced itself
Bikes & Frames
Ever ridden your bike for 112 miles in one go? How about after a 2.4 mile swim and before a full marathon? While Zwift won’t be able to help you with the swim portion, it can give you a go at those 112 miles and run. Or, you
Road
It’s just October, but snow is already falling in Colorado. As I prepare to move my cycling indoors for the winter, it’s time to look back over a great summer of cycling and share some ride reports. I’ve got several to share (mostly some bucket list climbs)
Bikes & Frames
This upcoming Saturday (10/13) marks the 40th anniversary of the original Ironman event. As the world’s best triathletes start arriving on the big island of Hawaii for the world championship race, a lot of cool new triathlon equipment will be coming along with them. Today, Specialized unveiled the
Gear Reviews
With its first successfully funded lock aimed more at commuters, Litelok’s new Litelok Silver has just started crowdfunding on Kickstarter and promises a super light and portable lock that is still super strong and secure. They say it can withstand two tons of force and has undergone intensive torsion
The Engine
For hunter-gatherers living 10,000 years ago, domesticating plants and animals created a surplus of food that led to stability and advancement of technology and culture. But now as the world’s population blasts past 7.4 billion, land and water use has become constrained. Now we have factory farming,