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Cycling Accessory Reviews, Features, Product reviews, Quad Lock, smartphone, Tech - October 14, 2020

Quad Lock mobile phone mount review: Solid and secure

Once a crowdfunded start-up making phone mounts for cyclists, Quad Lock has grown to become an international name. The Melbourne-based company launched right around the time the iPhone was finding its feet and has since expanded its product offerings to allow the vast majority of smartphones to be mounted securely to bicycles, motorbikes, inside cars …

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The Route Werks handlebar bag has clever solutions for common problems

We are living through the renaissance of the handlebar bag. For decades the domain of earnest German brands and touring cyclists, this maligned bit of kit has boomed in conjunction with the advent of ‘gravel cycling’. Now, touring has become bikepacking, the earnest Germans look like prophets, flannies and baggy shorts are the new lycra, …

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Litespeed refines its gravel game with the new Watia titanium frame

Litespeed is continuing to iteratively improve its titanium gravel offerings with a new frame called Watia. In a first for Litespeed, the Watia features a solid semi-yoke chainstay section that’s also welded lower down on the bottom bracket shell, providing a bit more drivetrain and tire clearance than before (and it also looks super trick). …

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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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Schwalbe promises performance and durability with new Aerothan inner tubes

If you’re a proud, card-carrying member of #teamtubeinside, Schwalbe’s latest development will be cause for celebration. Despite the somewhat misleading name, the company’s new Aerothan inner tubes aren’t more aero than … well, anything. However, they are made of a special non-rubber thermoplastic polyurethane polymer that was developed by the chemistry wizards at BASF, and …

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Quad Lock mobile phone mount review: Solid and secure

The Route Werks handlebar bag has clever solutions for common problems

Litespeed refines its gravel game with the new Watia titanium frame

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

Schwalbe promises performance and durability with new Aerothan inner tubes

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