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Ten products I loved in 2020: James Huang

Cycling took on a whole new meaning for me in 2020. Looking back, I’d more or less taken for granted the ability to head out for an hour or two at a moment’s notice, and to ride purely for the sheer enjoyment of it — that sensation of earthbound flying, as I’ve always liked to …

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What it’s like to write off a $20,000+ bike on the first ride

In the soft early morning light streaming through the window of his Bernal Heights studio, Erik Nohlin snapped a few photographs of his new Specialized Aethos. The day was one he’d been anticipating. It would be the first ride on a bike that he’d spent days painting, and months planning for. The frame was a …

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JRA with the Angry Asian: Should we be considering full-face road helmets?

I’ve been thinking a lot about facial injuries lately — partially due to my mishap last July in Belgium just prior to the Tour de France (on an electric scooter, of all things) — but also because of the traumatic crashes that seem to happen with frightening regularity in professional road racing. Take just this …

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Specialized adds less expensive Pro and Expert models to Aethos range

In news that will surprise precisely no one, Specialized has today announced that its latest S-Works Aethos ultralight — and ultra-expensive — road bike will be joined by two additional versions that are slightly heavier, but far, far less outrageously priced than the flagship model. Both the Pro and Expert versions of the Aethos are …

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Specialized S-Works Aethos shuns aero, embraces low weight and ride quality

Most of the performance drop-bar world has fully embraced the aero efficiency theme, with everything from racing bikes to gravel bikes regularly chasing free watts. With the new S-Works Aethos, however, Specialized casts all of that aside in favor of more traditional metrics like low weight, high stiffness, and good ride quality — just like …

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