February 13, 2024
BOTW: Chad's Mosaic GT-1 IAR
When I heard that Mosaic was releasing an integrated version of its GT-1 AR platform, I made a mental note to explore the idea of building a high-performance, fender-ized winter bike. Before moving to California some twenty years ago, I spent each winter riding through the slush of Seattle, where...
Chad Nordwall
February 13, 2024
Ride Review: The Mosaic GT-1 IAR
Smooth isn't usually the first adjective people reach for when asked to describe how their bike feels. But after only a few revolutions out of the AC door on my new Mosaic GT-1 IAR (we'll get to what the acronym means and why it matters), smooth was the feeling I...
Chad Nordwall
February 01, 2024
Florida Man Rides Again: Reviews the Mosaic GT-1 and the Kask Elemento
AC's resident Floridian and Sales Director Julius Berith does the double this week, reviewing his Mosaic GT-1 45 and Kask Elemento helmet in one wild swoop of tubeless rubber. So, without further ado, please give the man a humid high five and a big welcome to the AC journal. Over...
Julius Berith
January 31, 2024
Interview: Kask on Why the Elemento Helmet Couldn’t Have Been Made 5 Years Ago
If you spend enough time on social media, you'll soon start to figure that every product pushed to your feed is more or less the same. Let's blame closed systems and the scroll. When everything is presented in the same setting, speed and style, with excitable adjectives denuded of impact...
January 26, 2024
BOTW: An All-Business No.22 Drifter X
We've been on a No.22 Aurora trip of late, but this week's featured build firmly turns the cockpit away from the road towards the gravel, and No. 22's blindingly quick Drifter X. With its svelte CNC butted titanium tubes, massive 700x45 tire capability and integrated titanium seat mast, the Drifter...
January 25, 2024
The Low Gap Lead Up
For the last two years, I've kicked off my racing season at the Low Gap Hopper. It's the first race in the Grasshopper Adventure Series, our local mixed terrain race series that garners national media attention and draws many top pro riders from near and far. These events hold a...
January 18, 2024
All Hands on Deck: Meet the Enve SES AR One-Piece Bar/Stem
The one-piece handlebar/stem on our Enve Custom Road builds has always attracted a lot of appreciative words from visitors to the shop. The SES AR One-Piece, as it's known, is beautiful, of course, as one-pieces tend to be, but it's also made in the U.S. to Enve's exemplary standards, and...
January 18, 2024
Jan Heine on the new Rene Herse Orondo Grade Tires
If you want to trace the origins of the 'All Road' movement, the bike industry's (occasionally) successful attempts to blend the best of road and gravel bikes into one do-it-all ride, look no further than Jan Heine of Rene Herse Cycles. Having first coined the phrase back in 2007 to...
January 18, 2024
Review: Brennan Wertz Tests the Rene Herse Orondo Grade Tires
A couple of weeks back, I got an email from Jan at René Herse saying they had just finished their latest tire, the Orondo Grade, a 31c high-pressure tubeless road slick, and that he was sending me a few sets to test. I don't remember my exact response, but the...
January 17, 2024
BOTW: A Yellow Pop Enve Custom Road
Has Utah ever looked so pretty as when rendered in yellow on the downtube of an Enve Custom Road? To the residents of the Beehive State, I mean no offence - Utah is rightly renowned as one of the most knock-your-socks-off-beautiful places in the US. But I’ve always been a...
January 11, 2024
Understanding Enve's New Hubs & Innerdrive™ System
You could be forgiven for not setting your alarm for this release. No disrespect to Enve, but hub design tech rivals counting sheep for its ability to lull most riders into a soft, untroubled slumber. However, to sleep through news of Enve's updated hub and curiously-named Innerdrive™ System would be...
