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Angry Asian column, Features, JRA, KOO, Tech, Tech features - June 28, 2019

JRA with the Angry Asian: Celebrating silly products

Koo — the eyewear-focused sister company of Italian helmet brand Kask — recently released a novel little widget called the Billy. This bit of plastic attaches to your stem or handlebar, and serves as a “dock” of sorts for your sunglasses when you don’t feel like wearing them. To use the Billy, just take your …

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Pivot Vault gravel bike first-ride review: Elegantly simple, buttery smooth

Bike companies have been coming out with all sorts of mechanical devices to improve rider comfort on gravel bikes: Cannondale recently introduced Kingpin on its new Topstone Carbon, Specialized incorporated the Future Shock into its Diverge, Trek has IsoSpeed on the Checkpoint, there’s the radical full-suspension Niner MCR, and so on. Pivot has instead gone …

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Bikes of the Bunch: Devlin Custom Cycles Kinship

Devlin Custom Cycles Kinship lugged steel road bike

Sean Doyle is a relatively new name in the custom framebuilding scene, but those who have seen our coverage from (or attended) the past two editions of the Handmade Bicycle Show Australia (HBSA) may be familiar with his fast-improving work. Devlin Custom Cycles is the name that appears on Doyle’s frames, and given he’s a …

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Features, SpeedX, Tech features - June 20, 2019

The story behind the story: What happened to SpeedX?

I didn’t set out to write this story – I want to be clear about that. I didn’t expect SpeedX to end up leading me into a tangled web of secret police and tanks in Tiananmen Square. Then again, neither did they. From 2016, though, I had a kind of morbid curiosity about the brand. …

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The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to SpeedX?

From a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign to 800,000 bikes dumped across China, this is the strange, sad story of SpeedX's monumental rise and fall.

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