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...
Peter Harrington
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...
Peter Harrington
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...
Brennan Wertz
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...
Peter Harrington
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...
Peter Harrington
January 09, 2024
BOTW: An Electric Blue/Crushed Orchid No.22 Aurora
A freshly-built No.22 Aurora never fails to elicit a deep longing from all who gaze upon it; an exhalation of need such is the call to the road its unapologetically bold lines inspire. The Aurora is a metal Medusa, a diamond silhouette that dares to question classical assumptions of perspective...
Peter Harrington
January 03, 2024
A Live/Dead Pegoretti Responsorium
At just over 23 minutes long, 'Dark Star', the opening track from The Grateful Dead's 1969 Live/Dead album, should have presaged commercial ruin for the San Francisco psychedelic outfit. But it was this live album, rather than the group's poorly-received studio offerings of the mid-60s, that successfully captured The Grateful...
Peter Harrington
January 02, 2024
Fast Rides in Farm Country
In a new occasional column, AC's man in London, Pete Harrington, talks about the challenges of finding time to ride when kids, work and life in a big city conspire to keep you off the saddle. Rest assured, he still spells the American way. About a year ago, I started...
Peter Harrington
December 21, 2023
BOTW: A Mosaic GT-1 for Getting About the Bay
This week’s featured build goes to a seasoned road rider who came to us seeking a gravel bike to explore all that the Bay Area has to offer. Above all, he sought comfort, control and great looks. Talking with the rider in more detail only confirmed what we had already mentally...
Mike Wilson
December 21, 2023
Five Minutes With Jake Pantone, Enve's VP of Product and Brand
Jake Pantone knows Enve. As he should, you might say. But Jake was there even before it was called Enve. As the VP of Product and Brand, he's been involved with some of the company's most consequential launches, from the SES wheel series to the Custom Road project and the...
Peter Harrington
December 07, 2023
An Evening (and Ride) With ENVE's VP of Product Innovation
On Thursday, 12/14, from 17.30 to 20.30, we invite you to join us as we host Jake Pantone, Enve's VP of Product Innovation, for an evening cocktail reception at Above Category. As well as getting the chance to meet and chat with the man spearheading Enve's product focus, we'll have...
Peter Harrington
