August 03, 2017
Solitude
We go through the motions, checking our phones every three minutes, every time they lord over us. Notifications. Pings. Emails. Slacks. Texts. DMs. Likes. The machines have risen in the most subtle, inventive way possible. And now, the robots are taking over our vehicle for escape, our magic carpet to...
August 03, 2017
It's Not a Review: Riding the Open UPPER
We thought about reviewing the new Open UPPER, until we realized that all we needed to do was point readers back to our original UP rundown a year ago. But, along with Open's evolved gravel bike, we've spent the past year getting under the skin of the genre-bending riding style....
August 03, 2017
The Top Ten Reasons to Ride in the Rain
This winter has been the wettest on record in Northern California, and our drought has been crushed by an endless, merciless torrent of rain that the National Weather Service terms an "Atmospheric River". It seems our every-three-day storm cycle is accompanied by a deluge of closed roads, closed schools, and...
August 03, 2017
The Orbis Has Landed
And so it is that the world's foremost titanium builder wades into the fray - that same fray that has been at the contentious forefront of road cycling over the past two years: The Great Brake Schism. Baum Cycles hath arrived after a long and worthy wait, introducing their first...
August 03, 2017
The Irrelevance of Le Tour: A Perspective
In the post-Petogate era, with Team Sky tightening its ever-increasing Vader-like death grip on what some consider cycling's greatest spectacle, has the beloved Tour de France reached its apogee? Have the Giro and the revered Classics usurped the throne? Our newest guest contributor, Remy Hitt, dives deep into the lows...
August 03, 2017
Bike of the Week: Drew Hartman
Baum's legendary prowess for building titanium isn't limited to end consumers and aficionados, it's also pervasive within our own industry. It's always a pleasure to build bikes for our peers, and this BMW-inspired Corretto going to a rather particular shop owner east of the Mississippi was a true joy to...
August 03, 2017
The Disc Messiah Meet SRAM eTap HRD
We've long hedged our bets about the advent of the disc brake on road racing bikes. It wasn't for lack of trying, it just seemed that the technology, the aesthetic, the weight penalty, and the lack of the industry's will to press the advantage all played against it. That all...
August 03, 2017
Behind the Behind the Scenes of Le Tour: Questions with the Commentariat
The Tour de France is the largest sporting event in the world, and the reportage on the race could go on for eons. But it begs the question - why? We took a decidedly different approach with our visit to the two Alpine days of the Grand Boulce, instead interviewing...
August 01, 2017
Blood in the Water: Rediscovering Bike Racing
Opportunity. What's the saying? It never knocks twice? What if you were given the chance to ride at a UCI 2.1 stage race in Europe with a month of notice? Would you capture it, or would you let it slip? We took the chance. Or more specifically, we had our...
June 14, 2017
A Monday in Hell: CHPT3's ONEMORELAP, Reviewed.
Open mouth, insert money - that's how we approached putting CHPT3's new ONEMORELAP kit through its paces. How? First, we had Nate crash in it. Hard. Then, two days later, we had him don David Millar's signature lycra for a windswept 8.5 hour, 140-mile, gravel-and-pavement day in the saddle. Finally,...
June 02, 2017
Doubling Down on Dope Domanes
What's better than one? Two, obviously. This is America. Meet two of a kind of what may be our favorite production bike: The Trek Domane splattered in custom Project One paint. One in crimson RSL livery, with low, long geometry designed to fly under true Flandrians, the other dressed in...
