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Clothes-Gear, Clothing-Gear-Tools, Gravel Bikes, Road Bike - July 15, 2021

Review: Miss Grape Road adds lighter, compact bikepacking bags for faster rides

Earlier this summer, Italian bag maker Miss Grape has added several all-new smaller, lighter Road collection packs to their bikepacking bag lineup. Built for “Far AND Fast” rides both on and off-road, we’ve been riding the new Cluster 7, Internode 2 & Node Road on weekend adventures and sub 24hour overnighters where we could pare […]

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Olympic Cycling: How to watch bicycle events at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics

Right off the heat of the Tour de France and the Mountain Bike World Cups comes the biggest and most lustrous of all events — Olympic Cycling. The athlete’s final preparations are currently being made, and wheels are finally touching down in Tokyo, Japan. After an unprecedented year of COVID cancelations and rescheduling, the games […]

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Handbuilt Bicycle Eye Candy from the 2021 ENVE Builder Round-Up

For much of the Western United States, the first weekend of Summer 2021 was a scorcher. But in Ogden, Utah, nothing hotter than the 36 custom-engineered, hand-built, and tuned bicycles flocking ENVE Composite’s HQ. Last month, ENVE hosted the 2021 ENVE Builder Round-Up and Grodeo, its third annual handbuilt show and gravel riding event, a […]

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Gravel Bikes, Road Bike - July 13, 2021

Found: A.S.Solutions Flat Mount Adapters for Post Mount and IS frames and forks

Back when disc brakes were in their infancy, I went on a mythical quest to track down an A2Z disc brake adapter to fit my odd-ball Manitou fork. Fast forward 20-some years, and not much has changed. There are probably fewer brake standards these days, but it still seems like you never have the right […]

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Lachlan Morton will beat peloton to Paris by 5 days in his superhuman Alt Tour de France

While the racing inside the actual peloton of the Tour de France has been especially exciting this year – and we’ve even spotted a number of new prototypes – it’s truly Lachlan Morton’s superhuman, self-supported bikepacking Alt Tour that has held my attention every day. Inspired by the crazy brutal feats of the earliest runnings […]

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