Gear – BIKE Magazine – Page 67

Apparel, Chromag Bikes, Chromag Rift, Chromag Rift Knee Guard, Gear, Knee Pads, Pads - June 12, 2020

Chromag Introduces the Rift Knee Guard

There’s something comforting about knowing that your protectives were designed in Whistler. Chromag is the kind of brand that knows its audience because the are their audience. And that informed the design of the new Rift knee pad from top to bottom. It’s meant to be worn from top to bottom, as well as bottom to top. Read More

Video: Revisit Crankworx Rotorua with Luca Cometti

Canyon CLLCTV rider Luca Cometti is your host for mountain biking’s biggest celebration south of the equator: Crankworx Rotorua. Ride along with Cometti and friends as they ride and play for a week—competing in Downhill, Speed & Style, Dual Slalom and Pump Track racing from March 1-8, 2020, in New Zealand.

Video: R-Dog Goes All Day in Queenstown

Ryan ‘R-Dog’ Howard wants to be on two wheels — period. Trail, dirt jump, eMTB, downhill bike, he doesn’t care. For R-Dog, it’s about the time in the saddle, not what the saddle is mounted to. Mountain biking is his livelihood. With each of his days becoming multi-bike marathons of singletrack, air-time, and high fives, Read More

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Drivetrain, SRAM Eagle - June 11, 2020

Jockeying for Position—SRAM’s New Expanded GX Eagle Group One-Ups Shimano

Not only does it look the part, but the new SRAM GX group acts it, too. GX is priced to compete alongside Shimano XT, both complete groups weigh about the same as well.

Fresh Produce: Park Tool DF-1 Dummy Fork

Working on your bike with the fork removed is an exercise in finding lost headset spacers and kinked cables. Park Tool's Dummy Fork is a no-brainer.