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
Tech & Data
AllTrails is the only app you need for getting out on the trail. I’m a big fan of the service and will be using it over the Labor Day weekend to navigate up Long’s Peak. It’s always a good idea to bring a map along for any
Bikes & Frames
All-City was launching right around the time I was starting this site, hard to believe it’s been 10 years now. Over the years All-City has expanded its lineup from track bikes to cross, road, gravel, and even mountain bikes. In honor of its 10th birthday, All-City has cooked up
Tech & Data
Aero positions in a mountain bike race sound absurd, but are they? With the Leadville Trail 100 just around the corner, Specialized decided to take a look and find out. Does grabbing your fork crown actually create any sort of aero advantage over a standard position? How about a simple
The Garage
OneUp Components has a cool new tool for quickly fixing tubeless tire flats. The new Plug & Plier Kit is intended to mount to the bottom of the EDC tool (sold separately), the Plug & Plier consists of a tubeless Jabber tool with 15 tire plugs, and a new set
Gear Reviews
Venti means “twenty” in Italian, fitting as Silca’s newest multi-tool is a step up from the Italian Army Knife Nove (9 tools) and Tredici (13 tools), the Venti cranks it up to 20 using the same flat profile and compact size. Among those 20 tools, you’ll find a
Tech & Data
This September the UCI World Championships will be held in the Innsbruck-Tirol region, you can get a head start on your training right now on Zwift. The new course is based on the 24km Olympic Lap pros will loop around 7 times for the men’s race and 3 times
Tech & Data
How do you get more people to subscribe to Strava Premium? Apparently, you ditch it altogether and replace it with an à la carte version of the premium plan called Summit. The new plans allow riders to choose what specific features they want (and pay for), or you can pay
Tech & Data
Every year’s Tour de France seems to have a standout piece of tech that everyone is talking about, and this year it seems to be these goofy looking oversize rear derailleur pulleys. If you’re a normal person, you’ve probably never given a second thought to your derailleur
Tech & Data
CeramicSpeed has a demo bicycle drive-train, dubbed Driven, that uses a drive shaft instead of a chain and they’re showing it off at Eurobike 2018. The concept not only sports some radical looks, but comes with an even more radical claim of better-than-99-percent efficiency. As Driven is only a