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Best women’s cycling bibs round-up: four drop-tail bibs reviewed

A good pair of bib shorts is worth every penny spent, but do you need to drop $300 to find a comfortable pair of bibs? It’s taken me many months to answer that question, and to find what I consider the best women’s bib short, but I’m finally there. While chamois, bib straps, leg bands, …
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Pearl Izumi X-Alp Gravel shoe review: A slipper-like fit with boot-like grip

Gravel this, gravel that. It seems everything has a “gravel” variant these days, and Pearl Izumi answers the call with its X-Alp Gravel shoes that are supposedly purpose-built for the genre. Automatic entries into Dirty Kanza aren’t included with the purchase price, but here’s the thing: they’re actually pretty good, albeit hardly perfect. Mmmm … …
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Ten products I loved in 2019: Caley Fretz

I find these lists surprisingly difficult to put together. Not because of some dearth of products I use on a regular basis, and love dearly, but because the products I use most often tend to fade into the background. I ended up scrolling through photos of myself on Instagram to help remember what I actually …
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Ten products I loved in 2019: Neal Rogers

When thinking of the cycling products I most loved in 2019, I had to compartmentalize between what I used most often and what I truly loved. If I simply wanted to acknowledge the technology that most consistently provides me happiness, it would probably be Shimano’s Ultegra mechanical group set, which I run on both my …
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Ten products I loved in 2019: James Huang

Theres a saying about time passing that goes through my head on repeat. “Life is like a roll of toilet paper; the paper comes out at the same speed, but the core keeps spinning faster and faster” … or something to that effect. Im now well into my mid-40s, and that cardboard tube is starting …
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