August 19, 2016
Bike of the Week: A Brown and Blue Open UP
This week we bring you a fresh Open UP build. Gravel bikes are getting tons of hype right now and it's easy to see why. We've been in love with these bikes since we got our first demo in the door, and the feedback from our clients has been nothing...
August 19, 2016
Introducing: The Open UP
Open Cycle is the brainchild of Cervelo's mad scientist founder, Gerard Vroomen, but with a decidedly different tack than the aero-obsessed Canadian manufacturer. The UP, or Unbeaten Path, is Open's answer to the current crop of gravel/adventure bikes. A Swiss Army knife of epic proportions, the UP can run 700c...
August 13, 2016
A Different Kind of Group Ride
Once upon a time, group rides were about learning how to ride beyond riding fast. Fun, yes, and social, certainly, but there was an aspect of skill, an element of panache imparted upon its participants by ride elders. It's the kind of ride that has slowly fallen by the wayside,...
August 04, 2016
The Road to Nowhere: Mt. Vision
There is a hunt for that which lurks beneath our noses. It's the unending quest for novelty, for variety, on the ever-present Road to Nowhere. It is the very essence of cycling - repetition. Repetition of a task rooted in the journey, not the destination. Only the chosen ride the...
July 29, 2016
The Skinny on Power: Training to Death
I'm alive. Barely. What happened? What's with the electrodes? No, I didn't crash. No, I didn't overtrain. I wasn't involved in some sort of fancy study. On July 6th, everything kind of changed. It was a Wednesday. It was, actually, a good Wednesday. I'd just finished up a decent interval workout...
July 29, 2016
Bike of the Week: Remixed Red Mosaic RS-1
Few things are as pleasing as a beautiful steel bike in a classic, white-paneled red. Mosaic certainly does a stellar job at building a steel bike that echoes everything we love from race bikes of the golden days while implementing every bit of modern performance. This week we are very...
July 26, 2016
The World's Most Expensive Rain Shell: Introducing the Castelli Idro
Do you fondly remember the days of stopping at the top of a mountain climb as the heavens opened, fumbling around in an overstuffed jersey pocket to pull an utterly worthless clear rain shell out for the drenched, hypothermic descent 20km below? We don't, and fortunately, neither does Castelli. The...
July 14, 2016
The Doctor's Arrival: Q36.5 Dottore, Reviewed
Based on appearances alone, some kit just makes us feel fast, because presumably, we look like it. Q36.5's new Dottore bibshort? It doesn't. Instead, it makes up for it with insatiable comfort and function over the long haul.
July 14, 2016
Titivated Spartan: A Painted Mosaic RT-1
Mosaic's titanium frames are known to be spartan. Purely functional raw, etched metal, with one purpose: performance. They are the quintessential beauty of form following function. But with this crimson-hued RT-1, we'd like to change all that.
June 30, 2016
SRAM eTap: The Honeymoon is Over
We've spent seven months and thousands of miles on SRAM's new electronic shifting group, eTap. We can confidently say that our honeymoon with the first wireless road drivetrain is over. Is everything still roses?
June 24, 2016
A Bike Junkie's Revelation: Chasing the Dragon
A clinic in the conversion of one of the most ardent of novel bike junkies to cycling monogamist. Read the story behind the latest Baum Corretto to roll out of Above Category, and into the arms of someone who’s owned more road bikes than socks.
