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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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This insane Scott Spark weighs less than 8 kg
Gustav “Dangerholm” Gullholm is a fixture of the mountain bike scene, best known for his heavily customised and extremely lightweight builds. Here he shares the details of his latest weight weenie outing – a jawdroppingly lightweight Scott Spark full suspension mountain bike. Numbers can be a funny thing. They don’t need to have any significant meaning …
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One-off Festka Scalatore blurs the line between art and performance
Czech custom bike brand Festka is no stranger to special one-off projects dressed in truly wild paint finishes. Its latest creation is based on its Scalatore tube-to-tube carbon road model and was built for a customer in South America. According to Festka, the paint alone took nine months to complete. Like the Spectre Porcelain one-off …
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A tour into the heart of De Rosa
The last of the pink confetti had settled over the square of the Duomo, and by the next morning the central square of Milan returned to any other Monday. Well-heeled businesspeople scurried in and out of the metro, tourists gaped at the magnificent cathedral, and teenagers ambled by, one eye ahead, one on their phone …
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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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