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News June 18, 2020

Do buzzwords make you faster?

A series of unprintable lube-based jokes ran, quite rapidly, through my thoughts when I saw this Graphene chain lube news this morning. Fortunately, for you, and likely my liability insurance premiums, they will all remain “inside-the-head” thoughts. But, let’s pause a moment for conjecture. Now, let’s just assume that absoluteBLACK’s GRAPHENlube, is every bit as good as their grasp of proper casing. No, wait… let’s roll with “lives up to all of…

News June 17, 2020

Get your HIT on

I’m a big fan of the Tabata style cycling workouts. Well, maybe “fan” isn’t the right word. They actually suck, a lot, but in a good way. Because, I am pretty thoroughly crushed at the end, and I can feel the results pretty clearly when I doing them, vs. when I’m not. In another excellent video by Dylan, he talks us through what makes a good HIT workout, as well as suggesting…

News June 16, 2020

Garmin approaches modernity

One of the biggest complaints I have about Garmin bike computers (OK, everything), is that the setup experience is decidedly stuck in in a different era. In this prehistoric time, mobile phones are not ubiquitous, and no one has the context to understand that you shouldn’t have to start over every time you get a new head unit, or hard reset because the Internet only exists on college campuses and the nightly…

News June 12, 2020

Unbranded? Or not name-branded?

I’ve been drifting away from GCN lately, but I think their look into “unbranded” bike parts is really interesting, and frankly something that I didn’t really expect to see them touch – even with someone else’s channel. I think there are probably a few reasons we don’t see a deeper examination of these types of products by mainline cycling media; with the major reason being that it’s really hard to advocate for…

News June 10, 2020

Yep, that’s the feature I was waiting for…

Seriously Strava… Seriously… I, don’t, even, know, what to say… Of all the totally useless features the platform has, recognizing the person who rode a segment the most, has to be pretty close to the top of the list. I mean, I guess it’s kind of nice that Strava is actually doing something with all the data it collects, and does nothing with… But, maybe building solo vs. group segment filter would…

News June 4, 2020

Damn! That’s a lot of bike for $800

I’m a big fan of metal gravel, cough… all-road, bicycles because they are generally cheaper, and you have the assured durability of metal; should your style of play also include pushing the envelop a bit. That’s not to say of course, that there isn’t a place for carbon gravel bikes, there certainly is, just that there are trade-offs involved. So I was thrilled to see this new 4130 All-Road from State Bicycle.…

News June 3, 2020

Bryton Rider 320

I completely missed the boat on the Bryton Rider 320 announcement, when it happened back in May. With support for heart rate (HR), speed, cadence, and power alongside a massive 35 hours of claimed battery life you get a lot of functionality for $120. And, since it supports Strava your ride will actually happen :). I do hope to get my hands on one of these soon, so watch out for the…

News June 3, 2020

Roval Aplinist CLX Climbs Under

Apparently not content to make people drool over the CLX32, there’s a new lightweight in town – the 1284g Roval Aplinist CLX. Roval makes some bold claims around aerodynamics, and I’m sure they’re mostly true :). Not that it really matters, no one is going to buy these wheels for the aero creds. They will set you back $2500 though, so definitely a princely sum to save the grams. It will be…

News June 3, 2020

Roval Rapide CLX slips between

It’s important to take any manufacture’s claims with a grain of salt; especially when it comes to bicycle kit. That said the new Roval Rapide CLX look very, very interesting due to their very different layouts front and back. What Roval has done is create a shallower (51mm), but massively wide (35mm) front wheel, and paired it with a more standard 30mm wide/60mm deep rear wheel. Claiming that this increases stability, which…

News May 27, 2020

Rumor has it

If a Venge and a Tarmac did the dirty, chances are we’d get this. Which is rumored to be the new, SL7, Specialized Tarmac. Word on the street, er… Internets, is that the Venge is on the way out, and this hybrid will take it’s place. While I’m sure that’s great for some, I prefer the non-integrated stem setup on the SL6. Just makes it a much easier thing to work on.…

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