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Clothing-Gear-Tools, Feature Stories, Gravel Bikes, Mountain Bike, Reader's Rides - March 14, 2020

AMR Gravel Gallery: What off-road bike setup you need for adventure bikepacking racing?

Last month’s Atlas Mountain Race, saw 192 cyclists on 192 different adventure bike setups. Our friend The Chimp was one of them and documented more than thirty different bike setups, including his own. Some rode full carbon gravel bikes bordering on all-road, others carbon XC mountain bikes. There were just as many rigid steel, aluminum […]

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Gravel Bikes - March 13, 2020

Salsa Stormchaser flies in with single speed drivetrain and massive mud clearance

Salsa announced the Stormchaser, a new aluminum gravel bike that’s made specifically for mud and poor weather conditions. With clearance for 700x50mm tires and a single-speed drivetrain, it is designed to keep on truckin’ no matter what nature throws your way. Alternator flat mount dropouts and multiple bottle/gear mounts round out the package. Salsa considers […]

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Zipp Tangente Course G40 tubeless gravel tire aims for new off-road adventures

Looks like Zipp just introduced the perfect set of tires to wrap around your Zipp gravel wheels – if you’re into 700c x 40mm that is. Jumping into the gravel tire market, Zipp is now offering the Tangente Course G40. Currently offered in only one option, the Tangente Course G40 is tubeless ready, but also […]

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Atlas Mountain Race bike setup: What’s it take to endure epic off-road adventure gravel racing?

Last month almost 200 cyclists lined up on the start line in Marrakesh, Morocco to attempt the 1150km Atlas Mountain Race, a self-supported off-road adventure bikepacking race through the rough terrain in northern Africa. Among them was one of our test riders, aboard the OPEN WI.DE. limited Detour edition, and a mix of adventure gear […]

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Restrap Adventure Race light bikepacking bags haul all the gear, weigh less than 1kg

As multi-day, self-supported bike racing takes off, Restrap’s new lightweight Adventure Race bikepacking range offers a way to pack in all the gear you need, with a total setup that weighs less than 1000g. We got a sneak peek at the light setup and its feathery body fabric last autumn, but now 4 bike bags […]

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