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2020 CyclingTips Gravel Bike Field Test, Bike and Frame Reviews, Features, gravel bike, Mercury Wheels, Product reviews, Shimano GRX, Tech, Viathon, Walmart - April 22, 2020

Viathon G.1 GRX 600 gravel bike review: Carbon at alloy pricing

Does spending more get you a faster gravel race bike? That’s exactly what we sought to answer with the high-value Viathlon G.1, a carbon gravel bike that’s backed by the biggest of big retailers – Walmart. Walmart’s immense buying power and pre-existing online sales channel means that for just US$2,298 (shipped, within the United States), …

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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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Viathon R.1 Red eTap AXS review: Great performance, but with Walmart pricing

Viathon made a big splash when it announced its presence to the bicycle world back in April, leveraging the cost-efficiency muscle of its parent company, Walmart, into a line of carbon bikes that seemed just too inexpensive to be true. But as it turns out, the R.1 Red eTap AXS road bike flagship isn’t just …

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Competitions, Features, Viathon - June 19, 2019

Enter to win a Viathon G.1 Force gravel bike

In partnership with Viathon Bicycles, we’re thrilled to be offering you the chance to win a G.1 Force gravel bike! The Viathon G.1 gravel bike was showcased in our latest video, From Couch to Kanza, where we gave one lucky (unlucky?) rider eight days notice that he would be racing the 200 mile Dirty Kanza – …

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From couch to Kanza: Eight days notice, 200 miles, and a bike from Walmart

Dirty Kanza’s a big event, and plenty of riders structure their year’s riding around it. That wasn’t to be my path. Eight days was all I had. Eight days to get myself from couch to Kanza, on a bike from Walmart that I'd never ridden.

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