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The all new Crank Candy Lace shoe ($159.99) is designed for off-road cyclists, featuring a stiff, fiber-reinforced nylon shank for optimal power transfer.

Announced this morning, Cane Creek enters the gravel bike suspension market with two inverted forks; Invert SL 30 mm ($1099.99) and Invert CS 40 mm ($1199.99). Let’s check out more below.

Our Readers’ Rides brings in submissions from across the globe and today, we have Michal from Southern Poland’s Kajak Custom gravel bike to share!

This weekend, April 13th and 14th, Santa Cruz Bicycles is hosting the next Velo Cosmos showcase with Team Old Soil on the history of mountain bike evolution. John will be there, documenting the fun so if you’re in the area, be sure to swing by!

Santa Cruz Bicycles Factory Store
2841 Mission St Extension
Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
9 AM – 4 PM

New from JPaks is the DropStopper dropper post collar ($22.99). No matter your dropper stanchion diameter, the DropperStopper will limit your post’s travel, protect the stanchion, a solid mounting point for a DropperPak, and function as an emergency clamp should your post lose pressure, and refuse to stay up. The included TPU shims don’t require you to measure anything at the time of ordering.

Includes: 1 -M4 stainless steel bolt + 2 TPU shims (25mm & 26mm dia compatible)

Available in 3 sizes and four flavors with a LIFETIME warranty

Check out more at JPaks.

Canvas shorts are great to ride a bike in. They’re durable and comfortable both on and off the bike. These new Ripton Chore Shorts ($70) for men and women are 98% cotton with 2% spandex; 10-ounce fabric in tumeric and navy, will withstand the rigors of riding or for workwear/chores. Check out the full drop at Ripton.

San Francisco’s ORNOT just stocked a limited run of organic riding shirts ($65) for men and women.

Wolf Tooth announced the Ripsaw aluminum pedals ($199.95) today. These feature a tapered platform, twelve pins per side, and are repairable. Let’s check them out.

UK-based brand QUOC adds to their Escape line with the just-launched Escape Road Lace. Find all the specs from QUOC below…

Released today, the Fray is ENVE’s new all-road/endurance road bike. The Fray is positioned in ENVE’s lineup between the Melee and the MOG, with a geometry optimized for tire sizes between 700 x 31c and 700 x 35c, and clearance up to 40c.

Petor stumbled on one of the first production Fray bikes ahead of its release for a long weekend in Girona last October. Below, he shares a first look and some initial ride impressions…

Last month, we shared the Drop Best, a mechanism that gives a RockShox Reverb forward or reverse offset. With 27mm of offset, you can change your seat angle by 2º, i.e., from 74º to 76º. This week, Fair Bicycle, the manufacturer of the Drop Best announced three Universal Drop Best models that work on any dropper post, depending on the dropper post hardware. The UC M6 uses M6 hardware, the UC M5 uses M5, and the UC F21 is for Fox Transfer posts that use the Fox Transfer MY2021 head design.

Check out the all-new universal Drop Best models at Fair Bicycle.

The bike industry insists on making diametrically opposed standards, often conflating them with improving the user experience or solving non-existent problems. While it’s often the larger companies making these moves, it’s up to the smaller, quicker to pivot brands to create solutions. The all-new Project 321 G3 Hub looks to tackle one such problem. The G3 hubs use what Project 321 calls 6-Lock Technology, and the tech is illustrated above: they can run center lock or six bolt. Check out more at Project 321.

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Outdoor Alliance just informed us that the US House Passed the EXPLORE Act. Let’s find out more below!

Belén takes us along with her for planning and riding out on her first Springtime overnighter…

In today’s Dust-Up opinion column, Morgan makes a deep cut into the business and culture many readers of this site make a living in. Are traditional bike shops missing the mark? And if so, how can we do better?

For the third installment in our Race Metal Video Series, Miguel Ovalles catches up with Bailey Newbrey from Sincere Cycles in Santa Fe to talk about why there’s a lack of metal race bikes and what the cycling industry can do to shift the paradigm.

Two Bikes recently opened a second location in Chattanooga. The first shop opened in Knoxville in 2021. In this video, YouTuber Logan Let’s Go takes us inside the new location.

For the past 50 years, Fox has been pushing suspension design and in 2024 FOX is launching three new dampers—each engineered from the ground up—that represent the pinnacle of suspension performance. Announced today, the GRIP X2 for ultimate descending performance, The GRIP X for uncompromised all-mountain traction, and the GRIP SL, the lightest XC damper with unparalleled ride feel…