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Ultra-endurance rider & Hunt wheels Beyond adventure product manager Josh Ibbett spent two & half weeks this summer, taking on the challenge of The Tour Divide race. We got a close look at his green Mason InSearchOf (ISO), the steel 29er bikepacking bike & its off-road racing setup. Now you can check out the bike, […]

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Having worked together developing & building bikes for a couple of years, I’ve spotted more bikes from Dlouhy Cycles this fall, a colorful mix of their customers’ road & trail bikes crossing my path at several friendly rides & races. But it was this hand-painted, golden fern-encrusted all-road Mule that caught my attention over the […]

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Orbea already updated their excellent all-rounder Orca carbon road race bike earlier this year with the latest OMX. Now, as the Fundación Euskadi development team steps up to UCI Pro Conti Team status to race with the world’s best, Orbea celebrates their home Basque team’s climb with custom bikes subtly calling out the Orange Tide […]

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The latest unbelievably detailed, handmade carbon road bike to come out of Festka’s Czech workshop is this Spectre Porcelain dream build. The lightweight & stiff, full-custom Spectre carbon road frame served as the blank canvas, before taking Bespoke to a new level. Festka’s art director brought in local artist Michal Bačák to create the one-of-a-kind […]

The post Must See: Festka Spectre Porcelain is a $35,000 hand painted, 24k gold leaf road bike appeared first on Bikerumor.

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Actual Weights, Mountain Bike, Reader's Rides -

In mid-summer we got a first look at the limited edition, ultralight carbon Horn full-suspension XC race bike of premium Spanish bike builder UNNO. Within days of sharing that, we heard from friends at German custom wheel & bike builders Light Wolf Studio that they would get the first production bike out of the mold, […]

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