Bikes & Frames
To celebrate SSCXWC19UT, Salt Air, based out of Salt Lake, has released a beautiful cross frameset. Salt Air is also offering the frameset for $2,175 complete with painted-to-match ENVE fork and Thomson collar, pretty damn good price for brazed Columbus tubing, internal cabling and a posh fork.
Culture & Opinion
This is a great video from Bombtrack on the Tuscany Trail. The Tuscany Trail, an event that has grown to be one of the biggest bikepacking events certainly in Europe if not internationally, was to be the destination for the Bombtrack team trip in June, 2019. The promise of sunshine,
Bikes & Frames
We’ve already taken a look at the new Cutthroat from Salsa Cycles, but here’s a great look at the bike in action on video. Sarah Hornby shares her experiences bikepacking throughout the Canadian Rockies on the all-new Cutthroat v2.
Bikes & Frames
Salsa is not new to the bikepacking game, they have had a complete range of bikes purpose built for everything from single day gravel rides to intercontinental tours for years. The Cutthroat has been in the Salsa lineup for a few years and now it’s getting an update to
Bikes & Frames
The bike with the weird handlebar, the Canyon Grail CF, gets some second generation updates. The handlebar’s still here. For 2020, Canyon, the direct-to-consumer power house, have redesigned their innovative carbon endurance-gravel bike. The second generation of Canyon’s gravel specific line will introduce a flagship
Culture & Opinion
Another day, another press release for an all-road bike. Today, it was from Bjorn Bikes, but they also have a message and methodology which is different, and in my opinion, important. Cycling isn’t always as green as it promises to be. Tires and tubes with plenty of life
Bikes & Frames
I guess it was about the bike. Reigning individual time trial world champion, Rohan Dennis, chose to ride a stripped down BMC Timemachine TT as he rode to victory to defend his title today. Notably opting not to use his Bahrain-Merida team-issued Merida Time Warp TT. Riders are
Bikes & Frames
Bombtrack added the Hook EXT C model last year as its flagship carbon gravel bike. The bike is built for long haul bikepacking with plenty of frame bosses for fenders, racks, and other essentials. The 2020 Hook EXT C drops press-fit for a T47 bottom bracket and adds SRAM
Bikes & Frames
The 3T Exploro is a gravel racing machine, its geometry mimics an aggressive road riding position, and the frame features aero tubes to squeeze out every last ounce of speed. All that engineering comes with a big price tag, until now. For those of us not looking to unload $10k
Bikes & Frames
Last September, Jack went to Temple Cycles with an idea to ride 6000km fully unsupported through 6 nations in Africa, traversing a variety of treacherous terrain from grasslands and rainforests to deserts and mountains, carrying all his kit and essential supplies too. He needed a bike fit for the purpose.
Bikes & Frames
A nice little bit of bikeporn to start the weekend courtesy of u/bdgardner over on Reddit. Absolutely incredible custom paint job and a beautiful Zipp/SRAM build to boot. Photos worthy of your desktop wallpaper. As for his inspiration: this is my cannondale that I custom painted to imitate
Bikes & Frames
Trails cost money. A recent trend has been for trail organizations to raise money by raffling off a bike. The Oregon Timber Trail is working with Giant/Liv to drive donations and offer one lucky winner a new Giant Trance Advanced 29 2 or Liv Intrigue Advanced 2 carbon mountain