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
Culture & Opinion
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,
Bikes & Frames
The Cervélo S5 is the original aero road bike, setting the standard by which everyone else is judged. But the sleek, long-running S5 has been in need of a serious update for some time. With the relaxation of the UCI 3:1 rule (ratio between the length and the width
Culture & Opinion
In 1968, Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, Dick Dorworth, and Chris Jones left to climb Cerro Fitz Roy in Patagonia. The 8,000-mile trip was full of surfing, skiing, dirt-bagging and finally the third climb of Fitz Roy. The team filmed their exploits on a 16mm Bolex camera and shared it
Culture & Opinion
Mosaic Cycles recently collaborated with Mitch Hoke on a sweet looking Wounded Warrior Project XT-1 ‘cross bike. Mitch is a pilot for the Air National Guard and has worked with WWP to help raise awareness for his brothers and sisters who were injured in battle. Mosaic Cycles has partnered with
Culture & Opinion
There’s no ignoring it, I ate my lunch outside today and a sudden breeze actually gave me a chill. The leaves on the trees have started changing. Autumn has arrived. If you’re into checking out the changing leaves in your neck of the woods, SmokyMountains.com has a
Apparel
Camp And Go Slow’s second drop went live today, it includes some seriously awesome Made In USA goods from Randi Jo Fab, check out more at Campandgoslow.
Culture & Opinion
Longs Peak (NenÃisótoyóú’u to the Arapaho people) is the most prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The 14,259-foot fourteener (28th tallest peak in the U.S.) is the highest point in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness and the
Culture & Opinion
The benefits of sitting in the middle of the peloton with all the wind blocked don’t need to be repeated here. But what if you took it to the extremes on the Bonneville Salt Flats, tucked in behind a 1,000-horsepower drag race car with a custom-built wind fairing?
Bikes & Frames
Never one to jump the gun but always there in the end with the perfect bike, Argonaut today unveiled its GR2 gravel racer. The bike first debuted at the 2015 NAHBS, winning “Best in Show,” now it’s finally ready for the masses. Fabricated by hand in Oregon, the GR2
Culture & Opinion
A truly gigantic study entitled “Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” has determined that no amount of alcohol should be recommended for ingestion. Via The Lancet: Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for