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In a phone interview with USA Today, the International Olympic Committee’s Dick Pound said that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will not be held starting on July 24, 2020. Instead the games will be postponed, likely to 2021. The IOC says more details will be to come in the
REEB Cycles just announced a rehashed 2020 Sam’s Pants with geometry updates, more mounts, and room for 29 x 2.2 €³ tires. They also released an all-new REEB Lickskillet (the perfect bike for conquering the Lickskillet loop at the Gold Rush Bike Rally?), a 700C all-road bike with gravel
Cycling
This is one of the better paint jobs I’ve seen recently. Great looking bike. For the Club’s latest collaboration, we combined with Dirty Kanza winner Colin Strickland and all-American bike manufacturer Allied to create the ultimate gravel bike, complete with a customised paint scheme designed with the man
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Cabin fever is setting in here as the family is all packed indoors, work is blowing up and Denver decided it needed some rain/snow. I’ll take all the entertainment I can get… This season, Orange Seal Off-Road is pulling back the curtain on the lives of their team
The Mid South may not have just been the first major gravel event of the year, it may have been the last for quite some time. With the world practicing social distancing, Zwift has just announced a new and well-timed event series: the “Cervélo Gravel Rush Series”. This four-event series
Cycling
Cinelli’s King Zydeco frameset is an update to the original Zydeco which was launched a decade ago. Cycling has changed a lot in that time. Ten years ago I was crit racing an aluminum Cervelo Soloist. Disc brakes weren’t even ubiquitous on mountain bikes yet. The King Zydeco
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Exactly the vibes needed in these trying times. Stay safe, wash your hands, don’t touch your face and seclude yourself to the pain cave.
From Zipp: Zipp’s new Tangente Course G40 (700x40c) is a purpose-built tubeless gravel/off pavement tire for smooth control over untamed roads. Grippy for aggressive riding, this tire provides the control and durability demanded by gravel, dirt, rocks, mud, whatever. The Tangente Course G40 is a wide (40mm) tire
Is it too early in 2020 to give out a colorway of the year award? Because that paint is glorious. Available in April and seen today at the Mid South, the Stormchaser is Salsa’s new singlespeed gravel bike. It’s available in an aluminum frame, with a carbon fork,
On the surface, bike gears are pretty simple. There’s a big gear attached to the crank and there’s some number of smaller gears attached to the rear wheel. We learn to shift through gears to climb hills or descend quickly back down them. Although gears are simple machines,
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State Bicycle Co. just released their 2020 team camp video featuring their annual ride from Tempe to Tucson, the weather was… well… interesting. More at the State blog.
Disc brakes are nearly ubiquitous at this point. Mountain bike, road bike, gravel bike, just about everywhere you look disc brakes are there. The stopping power is undeniable, the servicing of said brakes, however, sucks. Park Tool is adding two new bleed kit options to its lineup that might just