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2020 CyclingTips Gravel Bike Field Test, Bike and Frame Reviews, Budget tech, Features, Product reviews, Tech, Trek Bikes - March 30, 2020

2020 Trek Checkpoint AL4 review: Simple and effective

Trek’s Checkpoint was the most popular gravel bike of 2019, according to data Strava sent over last fall. Trek has sold a lot of them. This suggests that it’s a good bike, and indeed it is. But we found that it is good in a generic, pop-music, lowest-common-denominator, unoffensive-to-all kind of way. It takes few …

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2020 CyclingTips Gravel Bike Field Test, BMC, Canyon, Cervelo, Evil, Features, Giant, Gravel, marin, Niner, Product reviews, Salsa, Santa Cruz, Specialized, Tech, Trek Bikes, Viathon - March 10, 2020

2020 Gravel Bike Field Test: 12 bikes, four riders, and endless dirt

You know what’s even better than testing one bike at a time? Testing a dozen of them all at once. CyclingTips recently brought 12 of the latest-and-greatest gravel bikes, four test riders, a giant box of control tires to eliminate one key variable, and a support mechanic to the red-dirt paradise of Sedona, Arizona. We …

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2020 Tour Down Under, Astana, Bahrain-Merida, Bianchi, BMC, Bora-hansgrohe, Campagnolo, Cannondale, Canyon, Cervelo, Cofidis, Colnago, De Rosa, Deceuninck-Quick-Step, EF, factor, FDJ, Features, FSA, Ineos, Israel Start-Up Nation, Jumbo-Visma, Lapierre, Lotto-Soudal, Merida, Mitchelton-Scott, Movistar, NTT, Pinarello, Ridley, roval, Scott, Shimano, Specialized, SRAM, Sunweb, Syncros, Tech, Tech features, Trek Bikes, Trek-Segafredo, UAE-Emirates, Vision, Wilier, Zipp - January 24, 2020

Tech gallery: The little things at the 2020 Santos Tour Down Under

Details, details. Oftentimes, it’s not the big things that separate pro race bikes from amateur ones; it’s the attention paid to lesser things, and at this level of the sport, few things go unnoticed. We’ve already brought you the full-body shots of the men’s bikes being used at this year’s Santos Tour Down Under, which …

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Features, pro bikes, Ruth Winder, Tech, Tech features, Trek Bikes, Trek-Segafredo - January 21, 2020

The bikes that won the Tour Down Under: Ruth Winder’s Trek Emonda and Madone

A week before donning the winner’s jersey at the Women’s Tour Down Under in Australia, Ruth Winder was training through the thick of winter on her local roads of Boulder, Colorado. The 2020 Women’s Tour Down Under featured four stages, and Winder raced both the aero Trek Madone SLR and lightweight Emonda SLR during the …

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2020 Tour Down Under, Bahrain-McLaren, BMC, Cofidis, Colnago, De Rosa, Features, Merida, NTT, pro bikes, Team UAE Emirates, Tech, Tech features, Tech news, Trek Bikes - January 20, 2020