If you’re looking for a dream machine, titanium drop bar mountain bike to tour on this year, Tumbleweed Bikes just got in a shipment of its lauded titanium Stargazer. These are the same as the steel Stargazer model we reviewed two years ago, just made from lightweight and flexy titanium tubing. Tumbleweed can either build one up as a complete, or sell you the frame.
Check out more at Tumbleweed Bikes!
To wrap up our Year in Review posts, here are the picks for the 2024 Radavist Product Awards.
Radical Atavism is all about telling stories, and we love to tell stories about the people who bring unique color and character to the world of cycling. Reportage is where our passion lies – but sometimes along the way, we get to try out and test a lot of innovative bikes and bike-related products. We pour our creative energy into our reviews and over the years, we’ve established a reputation for publishing thoughtful and well-researched opinions on products.
This year, we found flaws, offered our unvarnished takes, and fell in love with a lot of products, all while deciphering the world of bikes we know and love. Some of these products deserve some extra recognition as we bid adieu to 2024.
Let’s check out ten cool things that made it to The 2024 Radavist Product Awards, marked by our Mauve Sandstone Toad below!
We’re kicking off the New Year with a tried and true staple of our Readers’ Rides segment, a single speed! Read on below as Marty talks about how career struggles led him to build up a 2017 All-City Cycles Nature Boy single-speed.
The Radavist’s 2024 Photographic Year in Review is how we celebrate this year’s visual achievements. In compiling this massive gallery it helps us reflect on our team’s hard work from the past twelve months, while acting as motivation for the year ahead.
Read on for The Radavist’s Top Ten Articles of 2024, ranked in ascending order and based on views. We’re more than just Beautiful Bicycles over here; year after year, the articles that our authors publish draw the biggest crowds. From our Dust-Up op-eds to the first look at brands’ future showcases, clever hacks, and new this year, our Radavist Documentary brought in the page views. As we look back across twelve months of content, ten articles in particular stand out.
For the Top Ten Beautiful Bicycles of 2024 we looked at pageviews, comments, and social media chatter from twelve months of content to determine what bikes best represent a calendar year at The Radavist. Then, to up the ante this year, we’ve included our Handmade Showcase Awards, featuring bikes from the OZ/US MADE Bike Show and UK/DE Bespoked. Let’s get to it!
Hi, Miguel here! Today, I’ll dive into winter training, exploring whether indoor cycling is right for you and how I stay consistent during these cold northern New Mexico months.
I’m also going to review the Wahoo Kickr Move and why I like it better than my old Peloton, along with my thoughts and tips on Zwift, the video-game-like software that has me totally hooked.
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It’s the last Friday of the year, and that means it’s time for our annual Top Ten Readers’ Rides list! Started in 2011, Readers’ Rides showcases the unique bikes owned by the readership of The Radavist. Like our Top Ten Bike Reviews list we posted yesterday, we compiled data from views and comments to distill down ten prime examples. This year’s list has some wild ones, so let’s get to it!
Each year, our staff takes on dozens of bike reviews, testing out what the bike industry is offering in various taxonomies. From carbon fiber full suspension bikes to small batch fillet brazed drop bar bikes and everything in between. The Radavist’s Top Ten Bike Reviews both paint a picture of what our audience wants to see and what our eclectic group of authors likes to ride.
We rank our Top Ten lists by views, comments, and social media chatter, distilling the metrics into an easy-to-digest cross-section analysis based on twelve months of web traffic and industry-leading independent Reportage. Furthermore, each of these Bike Reviews ranks at the very top of Google search results.
Without further ado, let’s check out the Top Ten Bike Reviews of 2024 in descending order below!
We’ve had an amazing year, thanks to the support of you, the readership, so from everyone over here at The Radavist we’d like to wish you Happy Holidays. We’ll see you tomorrow!
Sklar Bikes has two fun new merch items, both designed by our own Nicholas Haig-Arack. The first is a black Sando Hoodie ($55) with a BLT+C sandwich graphic, and the second is a Leaf Hat in blue or white ($58). Both items are in stock and shipping from Sklar’s Bay Area HQ.
In this informative video, Luke from SOMA explains the brand’s affinity for Nitto products.
While John was visiting Crust Bikes in Australia on a work trip – ok, he was surfing mostly – Matt shared with him a pet project of his: the Evasion Trail 140 ($1,175). We already shared the prototype build but these frames are in stock now at Crust Bikes. This bike is a product of Matt’s affinity for the mighty Postie Bike aka the Honda Trail 90 (or 110). In short, the Evasion Trail is exactly what it looks like: an Evasion rear end welded to a longer step thru front end, making it more compatible with a flat, riser, alt, townie, or whatever-you-call-it kind of bar.
This wild version of the Evasion is also mountain bike boost-spaced on the front and rear of the bike. While you could finagle drops on it, it’s designed for flat bars.
See more at Crust Bikes.
Summer R is the winner of the Wilde Bikes Rambler SL giveaway we ran this month as our final giveaway of the year. Many thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s giveaways! We’ve got more on the way in 2025.
Velo Orange’s Neutrino mini velo has gotten a lot of love from its customer base. The mini velos are finally back, with a pre-order for a frameset or complete build kit live on Velo Orange today. If you want the complete build kit, you’ll have to add both the frameset and the build kit to your cart.
What’s a mini velo, why are we talking about them, and what’s all the hype about? Check out this build-up video Velo Orange just shared…
The BLB Hitchhiker is an all-steel, all-rounder, and Tim built his up as a flat bar basket bike. Let’s check out a beautifully-documented Readers’ Rides below!
Stridsland, known for its Beachcomber rigid 26″ MTB, teased a potential next 27.5+ model in its catalog on its Instagram this week, dubbed the Barge. The Stridsland Barge features a 65º head angle, a 75º seat angle, 420 mm chainstays, boost spacing, 1 1/8″ head tube, and a 430 mm axle to crown Barnacle fork. The size XL Barge has a 520 mm reach.
To get on the list for the Barge and see more of Stridsland‘s thoughts on the bike, roll on over to its Instagram! If you’re wondering who or what is Stridsland, check out our profile in the Related Archives below!
After being sold out for an extended hiatus, the beloved Nitto-made Sim Works Fun 3 Bar is back with a major update…
