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Features, roval, Tech, Tech news - September 11, 2020

Roval announces new range of lightweight carbon fiber cockpit components

Roval has always been known exclusively as a wheel brand, but the label is now expanding into premium carbon fiber handlebars and seatposts — with much more likely to follow in the months ahead. Headlining the road side of things is the new Alpinist cockpit, which boasts a one-piece molded handlebar-and-stem layout and titanium steerer …

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No.22’s new travel bike couplers: lighter and more seamless than the rest

Travelling with a bike can be pain. Once it’s packed up, you often have to choose the transport that fits your bike, wait in oversized baggage queues, sometimes pay oversized fees, and hire larger cars. For these reasons, splittable travel bikes have found a successful niche. The goal of a travel bike is to ride …

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Factor Ostro VAM: The exclusive first-ride review

Factor, a manufacturer focussed on producing performance carbon bikes, calls it the road bike quiver-killer. A disc-equipped aero bike that can be built to the UCI weight limit but that’s comfortable enough to race at Paris-Roubaix. Or put another way, most road bikes are traditionally grouped into three segments. You have the lightweight climbing bike, …

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Features, mavic, Tech, Tech news, tubeless - September 7, 2020

Mavic hits the reset button with new Cosmic SLR 45 Disc road wheelset

Iconic French wheel brand Mavic is hoping to turn the page after the tumult of the past few months, now that it’s finally found stability in a new owner. It’s doing so in the best way possible: with a new product that not only looks to be quite good, but is also indicative of the …

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2020 Tour de France tech: Inside EF’s tubeless tire foam party

At no other time in modern road racing history has there been such a multi-pronged assault on the once-untouchable tubular tire. However, with every team perpetually in the search for free watts — and a growing body of evidence that ultra-fast-rolling tubeless and even tube-type clinchers now offer exactly that — there’s a distinct absence …

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