The Radavist

If you live in the Front Range, or happen to be visiting this weekend, make sure you roll through TPC’s headquarters for the Great Spring Breakaway event. The event is going down on April 29-30th at TPC’s Louisville, Colorado headquarters and will feature a number of vendors and events.

Take a factory tour, visit TPC’s retail store and vendor expo, to earn your chance to win a grand prize: “The Ride of a Lifetime” A Certified Pre-Owned Bike for Life!

Additional prizes include a limited edition Sklar x The Radavist collab gravel bike, ENVE wheelsets, and bike services at TPC.

John will be talking about our new collaboration: the Radavist Edtion Sklar Super Something on Saturday, at 11 am and 1 pm, so don’t miss out on this early look at the bikes. Yes, we will have some for sale as well!

When and Where

Saturday, Apr. 29, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sunday, Apr. 30, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

1900 Taylor Avenue Louisville CO 80027
(866) 401-9636 (Headquarters)
(720) 295-9642 (Retail)

See more info at the Great Spring Breakaway.

Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…

Daniel Zaid and Karla Robles were able to get their hands on an early version of Forager Cycles‘ new Jemmy Bar ahead of the preorder for the handlebar that opens today. Daniel explains his journey from wide drops to wider flat bars and bringing a classic MTB into the modern world of 2023 with a quick bar swap. Continue reading for more about the Jemmy Bar!

Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…

Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…

We get many submissions for our weekly Readers’ Rides feature. Some range from parts bin basket bikes to framebuilders’ own creations. This week’s feature comes from the latter. Will from Albatross Bikes sent in his personal RD-00 Builder’s Special, along with some process imagery and the bike’s geometry, so let’s get to it!

Industry-shifting products come in all shapes and sizes. Bivo’s disruptive design of choice? Bike bottles. The carbon-neutral Vermont-based brand is channeling its sustainability efforts through the innocuous bidon and, based on how many I’ve seen popping up in my IG feed, they seem to be making a splash. Read on for a review of Bivo’s stainless-steel bottles.

Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…

When we lost our 2015 image bucket back in 2018, it was a huge bummer, but over the past few months, I’ve been digging out hard drives and re-editing some photos, in the hopes of filling in the bigger holes. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been taking a deep dive into the archives, and today, I’m sharing one of my favorite track bike builds I shot while living in Austin: Nick’s Moyer Track

Check it out in all its beausage glory: Nick’s Moyer Track

I should also note that my intent here is only to upload lost photos, keeping the text and formatting intact.

Brian Blomerth’s graphic novel Bicycle Day tells the story of the first LSD trip: a psychedelic ride made in 1943 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann as he sampled the first-ever LSD. Each year, on April 19th, the world celebrates Bicycle Day as an homage to Hofmann’s chemical mixture that forever changed the world of psychedelics.

If you’d like to see an in-depth look at Blomerth’s book, check out this article at The Guardian.

BRB, we’re going on a ride…

Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…

Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…

Today, Fox Shox announced an updated FLOAT rear shock and a brand new, lightweight version called the FLOAT SL. After pouring over the PDFs, we figured it was worth pulling out of the quick-hit Radar Round-Up to give it its own spotlight. It’s more than just the next iteration of the most popular rear shock on the mid-travel market. It’s a sign of the times.

While I’m a big fan of converting older 26″ MTB wheels to tubeless, I have found that if you let the bikes sit for a month or two without riding, the bead will unseat and the tires will go flat. Here in the Southwest, that means that the sealant usually dries up by the time you’ve noticed. I still believe that a tubeless setup is crucial if you have a bike you ride a lot, but when you have a few vintage bikes in your fleet that don’t see as much regular rotation, that can become a lot to manage. Once the bead breaks and the sealant dries up, you must completely clean the rim and tire out to re-seat it. Not ideal! 

A few weeks ago, while inserting Tannus Armour Tubeless rim protectors into my 29er, I noticed the brand also makes Tannus Armour Inserts, designed to be run with inner tubes. These inserts are very similar to the tubeless inserts but don’t require the upkeep or regular mileage that tubeless systems demand, particularly with vintage rims.

Last week I posted my Yo Eddy! restoration and, after I shot those photos, I got a few flats from thorns. So, instead of resorting to my normal tubeless conversion, I decided to give these Armour Inserts a try.

Let’s check out what that entails below!

Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…

The Kona Band Wagon is perhaps one of the most iconic Kona drop bar bikes of all times (sorry Jake the Snake owners) and today we have Juoko‘s build, all the way from Finland, so let’s get to it.

We’re big fans of basket bag biking ’round these parts and are stoked to see our friends at Wizard Works expand their size range of Alakazam Bags to fit perfectly in the Manivelle Basket from French framebuilders Cycles Manivelle. Josh has been pedaling around with the combo recently and, below, provides a breakdown of this magical rack and bag duo…

The enigmatic folks behind Moné Bikes invested “new Honda Civic” money into the fabrication of their carbon riser bar. It was a gamble, but the results are impressive. Spencer Harding has become addicted to upsweep angles and while steel risers may work in many cases, sometimes you need to shave some grams. Read on for some silly memes, useless light bar mods, and a hot take on the handlebar bend you didn’t know you needed.