A few days ago I wrote about counterfeit carbon that people buy off of eBay or from dodgy internet sites, and I remembered that counterfeit…
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Thru-Axle Disc Forks from 3T and ENVE
I am really excited to see this fork on 3T’s website. I first spotted this fork on Open Cycle’s new Unbeaten Path at Sea Otter…
Counterfeit Carbon Components
The issue of counterfeit carbon frames has popped up in media a few times in the past couple years…typically along with disconcerting images of separated…
Deda Elementi, Interbike 2015, and the continuing evolution of Italian Design
In the early 1990s when I joined the cycling scene, the preeminence of Italian design had already begun waning. The mountainbike boom of the 1980s…
Review: Yakima HoldUp hitch rack
Recently I rejoined a demographic that I had abandoned a decade and a half ago. I would like to say that it was a political…
ENVE releases new SES 2.2 carbon tubeless clincher rims and wheelsets
The new SES 2.2 carbon tubeless clincher rim represents the latest evolution of ENVE Composites’ road hoops, not only completing the aerodynamic update of ENVE’s…
Mark V at InterBike 2015: Bring on the fat skinny tubeless
After a three year absence from InterBike, I decided that rather than aimlessly roaming the labyrinth of booths I would purposely seek out only the…
RIP: Jerry Baker, Seattle Cycling Icon
Jerry Baker has been riding in the Northwest since the roads were dirt, back when shorts were wool, chamois were leather, and you switched gears…
Sannino: One Thing Led to Another
Retro steel: because it’s funny to slip by riders on bikes that weigh less and have twice as many gears. But is friction shifting better…
Gravel, All-Road, Adventure Bikes…I’m interested in design not what you call it
Gravel, All-Road, Bikepacker, Adventure Bike….marketing terms for a somewhat nebulous and ill-defined target demographic into which bicycle brands have desperately been hurling new product development.…