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Allied, Bike and Frame Reviews, Features, Product reviews, Tech - June 12, 2020

Allied Able gravel frameset review: Looks weird, goes fast

Allied Cycle Works’ steady march from tarmac to gravel and dirt continues with its latest model, the Able. It looks like nothing else out there right now with that crazy chainstay design, but there are sound design and engineering principles behind its curiously asymmetrical layout. It’s not without its quirks, but with simultaneous men’s and …

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Features, News, Strava, Tech, Tech news - June 11, 2020

Strava debuts “Local Legends” consistency classification

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Strava has a new type of leaderboard, rewarding consistency, not speed. Local Legends leaderboards are based on the number of times a rider completes a segment, not how fast they ride. The top rank on a Local Legend leaderboard goes to the rider who has completed a given segment the most times in a rolling …

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2021 Marin Headlands 2 gravel bike review: Upright meets fun

Marin County, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, is widely considered the birthplace of the modern mountain bike. Here, the likes of Joe Breeze, Charlie Kelly, Gary Fisher and John Frey rode and raced their clunkers down the rocky forest access roads. They broke them, refined them, and eventually created a market …

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Bespoked UK handmade bicycle show canceled for 2020

And another ones bites the dust — at least for now. After initially announcing earlier this year a postponement from May to October, UK handmade bicycle show Bespoked has announced that it is now canceling its 2020 show entirely, just as the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) stated last week. “It is with regret …

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Modernize your outdated 15mm thru-axle bike with Forkmods

It’s an all-too-common scenario in the era of rapidly changing bike “standards”: Adrian Hodgson was recently looking to replace the wheels on his 2016 Trek Domane 6.9 Disc, but he had few good options. Despite the bike only being a handful of years old, the 15 mm-diameter thru-axle format used on the existing fork and …

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