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New Wheel Spotlight: Atomik 38C Disc Tubeless Ready Clincher Wheels
Atomik Carbon is a fairly new brand that is based in Tampa, FL with wheels coming out of a factory in Taiwan. The company started out focusing on tubeless mountain bike wheels and now has recently...
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Tested: Knight Composites 29 Race / Gravel Tubeless Wheelset
Brands are always looking for ways to target a growing an audience, and “gravel” wheels were one of the hottest market segments at the trade shows last year. But it got me thinking about whether I...
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Getting Your Bike Ready for a Gravel Race – Mechanical Monday
Last week, for Training Tuesday, we helped you start getting your body ready for a long gravel event, but what about your bike? Preparing a bike for a long gravel event takes some planning and...
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Wisconsin Cyclocross: Driftless Area Welcomes 2017 Dairy Roubaix Gravel Ride
You can be more than just a spectator for the spring classics. Across the nation, local regions’ own takes on Paris-Roubaix are popping up, with or without cobbles, including in the Midwest. Want to...
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First Ride Review: Fox Step-Cast AX Adventure Cross Suspension Fork
As we initially guessed last month, Fox has built and today officially released an “Adventure Cross” or AX version of its lightweight 32 Step-Cast cross country fork. The new fork, perhaps most...
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Easton Expands AX Adventure Line to Include EA70 AX Wheels
We’ve got an overdose of “adventure” riding components today, as Easton (owned by Fox) has coordinated with the suspension company for synchronized release of a new adventure/gravel-oriented wheelset...
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WTB’s Expands Road Plus with 47mm Byway Gravel Tire
WTB keeps expanding the tire options for cyclocrossers and gravel riders, adding to its Road Plus line of tires with a new fast-rolling tubeless option with side knobs called the Byway Road Plus TCS...
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Giveway: Win WTB Byway Road Plus Tubeless Gravel Tires
WTB has offered up burp-free tubeless tires for cyclocross, gravel and mountain bikers, and its latest tire, the Byway Road Plus 47mm tire, blurs the lines between all these categories and expands your...
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New Product Round Up: Crank Brothers, Alto Cycling, Lezyne, ESI Grips and Mavic
Day One of the Sea Otter Classic is in the books and we have a quick round-up of some of the daily highlights from the show. Highlighted here are new wheels from Crank Brothers and Alto Cycling as well...
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The Fat Chance Cycles’ Chris Cross Bike Is Back – 2017 Sea Otter Classic
Chris Chance started building bikes in 1977, creating road racing, time trial, criterium, and touring steel brazed frames. He started Fat Chance Cycles in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1982 at the dawn...
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Franco Bicycles Unveils Updated Grimes Steel Do-It-All Bike
A little over a year ago, we reviewed the steel Grimes cyclocross bike designed by Franco Bicycles and built to spec by Zen Bicycle Fabrication. A lot happens in a year. Zen Bicycle Fabrication is no...
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VooDoo Cycles Announces New Rada Steel Gravel Bike with Disc Brakes and Big...
[caption id="attachment_99791" align="alignnone" width="750"] The all new Rada from VooDoo Cycles pairs a Reynolds 853 steel frame with a carbon fork and runs hydraulic disc brakes with room for 40c...
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Fairdale Launches Its Rockitship, An Adventure Bike for Any Planet
This year it seemed more like Steel Otter than Sea Otter. With the launch or relaunch of Chris Chance’s Chris Cross with a Reynolds 853/Columbus Zona Nivacrom mix, VooDoo’s Reynolds 853 Rada and the...
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Mercury Cycling Announces New G1 Carbon Gravel Wheels as the Brand Continues...
[caption id="attachment_99859" align="alignnone" width="750"] Mercury Cycling G1 gravel wheels are available now through Competitive Cyclist with a suggest retail price of $1,700. 2017 Sea Otter...
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New Breezer Bikes are Ready for Any Weather – Inversion, Radar and Doppler
Joe Breeze has always done things his own way, whether it’s developing one of the first mountain bikes, coming back to focus on commuter bikes, or now, avoiding flat mount disc brakes and thru axles...
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Roval’s New CLX 32 and Carbon Control SL 29 Wheels Strive for Independence
The Roval CLX 32 carbon wheelset comes in rim or disc brake versions as well as tubular or clincher. 2017 Sea Otter Classic. © G. Kato / Cyclocross Magazine Roval was a French company that was...
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Focus Eyes Country Roads with the Paralane Adventure Road Bike
At the 2017 Sea Otter Classic, versatile drop bar bikes were a continuing story once again. While perspective consumers might argue over labels, and manufacturers attempt to differentiate with clever...
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New Product Round Up: SDG, Light and Motion, K-Edge, Birzman and SQ Lab
The Sea Otter Classic provided plenty of new bikes, parts and gear and we continue with more new products for 2017 with offerings from SDG, Light and Motion, K-Edge, Birzman and SQ Lab. [caption...
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Vittoria Pumps Up Terreno Tubular Treads to 40c TNT Tubeless Tires
While there are plenty of 40mm or larger gravel tires, slowly but surely, companies are answering the non-UCI-racing cyclocrossers’ prayers for higher volume tires that better meet the needs of mixed...
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Irwin Cycling Launches Aon DX 38 Carbon Disc Wheelset
Irwin Cycling is a fairly new wheel company that has been around for approximately three years. After having success expanding in markets like Europe, Asia and Africa, the brand is now expanding its US...
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