Culture & Opinion
Video: Why are Bike Bags so Expensive?
Path Less Pedaled takes a look at Swift Industries and answer the question I’ve heard many times; why are bike bags so expensive?
Bikes & Frames
Titanium Gravel Riding on a Budget - The New Ribble CGR Ti
Ribble Cycles just launched a new, redesigned version of its titanium gravel bike, the CGR Ti. It looks good, very good. Jamie Burrow, Head of Product at Ribble Cycles explains the development of the CGR Ti: “The new CGR Ti features what has become our trademark dropped seat stay design
Bikes & Frames
The Rondo RUUT Gravel Bike With Adjustable Head Angle
There are various ways to adjust the geometry of your bike, this is definitely one of the more interesting ones. The Rondo RUUT features a “45 º flip chip” in the fork which allows riders to adjust the head angle and fork trail. You can slacken the head angle for
Gear Reviews
Pactimo Releases Tellus Collection - Gravel Focused Apparel
Pactimo is well known for making high quality cycling apparel for the road. More recently, though, they’ve started venturing off-road as well with a full mountain bike line. Now Pactimo is releasing a gravel focused apparel line. Pactimo’s Tellus collection is meant for any off road adventure. The
Bikes & Frames
Ritchey’s New Outback V2 is a More Capable Touring Rig
The Ritchey Outback has received some changes for 2020, making is a more capable touring bike. To start, an all-new Ritchey Adventure Fork design at the front comes complete with new cargo mounts. The frame itself also has more braze-ons, including rack and fender mounts. The Ritchey Outback has room
Bikes & Frames
Twin Six Has New Colors for its Standard Rando for 2020
I can’t believe Twin Six’s Standard Rando frame doesn’t get more attention. For just $700, you get a full steel frame with a steel fork with tons of braze-ons and room for a 700c x 43mm or 650b x 48mm tire. For gravel riding and touring it’
Components
Wolf Tooth Components Morse Cages Available in Limited Edition Gold Finish
The Wolf Tooth Components Morse Cage is a collaboration with King Cage. WTC provides the base plate which allows for 32mm of vertical adjustment and King Cage provides its beautiful bottle cage. The raw titanium version is one of my favorite bottle cages. Nice flexibility in spacing and great bottle
Components
Cane Creek eeWings Cranks Now Available in Raven Black
I don’t know who doesn’t like the look of raw titanium, but if you do Cane Creek’s eeWings Raven cranks give a new look to their titanium crank arms, giving them a deep gloss black. Weight weenies watch out, the automotive finish adds a full 3g. In
Gear Reviews
Silca's New Super Secret Chain Lube on a Vintage Molteni Merckx
Silca just released a new product, dubbed Super Secret Chain Lube. The “secret”? NanoPlatelet WS2, a material that has less than 1/3 the dynamic coefficient of friction of PTFE and 1/4 that of Molybdenum Disulfide. In other words, it’s slick. And that bike! I’ll try to
Gear Reviews
Elite Releases Biodegradable JET Water Bottle
It’s the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, to celebrate Elite Cycling is releasing a new water bottle. Whether a bottle gets tossed in a race or gets reused for years, it will eventually make its way to a landfill. With that in mind, Elite has created a new Jet
Gear Reviews
Dynaplug Racer Tubeless Tire Repair Kit
The Dynaplug Racer is a tubeless tire repair kit meant to seal tubeless tire punctures that are too large for sealant to seal. The tool deposits a plug into the cut or puncture, which fills the hole. The plug essentially becomes part of the tire and you can carry on
Gear Reviews
Hutchinson's Kraken Tire for XC, Gravel & Bikepacking
“Unleash the Kraken!” I wouldn’t buy a tire just for the name would I… The Kraken is one part traditional XC tire, and one part semi-slick. It has tall, stout side knobs with smaller, evenly spaced traction knobs in a mini-paddle sort of configuration. The mostly uninterrupted line of