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John is down in Melbourne, Australia, documenting the Made Bike Show Australia 2024 framebuilder showcase and has a special sneak peek gallery today featuring Woods Bicycle Company‘s Effigear-equipped El Camino steel full suspension. Let’s check it out!
MADE, the multi-day event for the handmade builder community, returns to Portland’s Zidell Yards August 23-25, 2024…
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
After finishing up his second big tour across the Andes, Ryan Wilson heads to the rugged terrain and clear blue waters of Crete. Follow along as he gets a taste of the life and riding on Greece’s largest and most mountainous island.
The response to the Old Man Mountain Experimental Bikepacking Team, sponsored by Silca and The Robert Axle Project has been monumental. Selecting just five riders for the inaugural team was extremely tough and OMM wants to thank everyone that applied. Let’s check out the picks for the 2025 team below…
Kicking off 2025 with a wonderful entry into our Vintage Bicycles category, Tasshi Dennis from the Vintage MTB Workshop pens a historical look at a 1986 Cunningham Expedition (#003) and asks a question that’s long been on everyone’s mind: What is a gravel bike, anyway? Read on for Tasshi’s hot take and some beautiful photos by John of a stunning Beautiful Bicycle…
Remember that sweet Squid Bikes rigid MTB, dubbed the Maybe Dead, we featured in our 2024 MADE Coverage? Well they’ve finally landed…
Our review of the Raised Reversed stem will not be a normal review. Normal reviews rarely have to overcome such a mountain of very hasty (but very reasonable) skepticism around their products. And those products are rarely so intimately connected with their designer.
Travis brought some of that skepticism to this review, but he also spent a lot of time with that designer. And the experience fundamentally changed the way he thinks about bikes. Needless to say, that’s more than we can put into a review, even if it isn’t a normal one. If you’ve still got questions after reading it, please drop them in the comments.
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!
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!
Today, Black Sheep Bikes from Fort Collins, Colorado, is offering a first for the framebuilding operation: a production hardtail mountain bike. Photographer Josh Hicks penned a few words and delivered a fun gallery showcasing these new bikes Black Sheep has dubbed the Speedster Project. Let’s check it out…
The updated Singular Cycles Kite Titanium is an evolution of the original steel Kite, one of the first gravel bikes to accommodate large tires. Like, really large tires. While the titanium frameset has remained a popular option in Singular’s catalog, the UK-based brand just launched a revised version that features an entirely new titanium fork with 3D-printed crown and UDH-compatible rear dropouts.
Josh, who is consistently interested in testing chubby tire gravel bikes in his home turf of southern Arizona, spotted a prototype Kite Titanium earlier this year at the MADE show. That particular Kite happened to be Singular owner Sam Alison’s personal build, and he let Josh keep it in the U.S. for a couple of months before sending it back across the Atlantic. Read on below for Josh’s impressions of the quick and capable Singular Kite.
After a full year of using the Omnium Mini Max cargo bike, John penned a review that reads like a love letter to this incredibly versatile platform…
Last but not least and perhaps maybe the best for last is Petor‘s Favourite Products, Rides, and More From 2024. Read on as our intrepid Gonzo journalist, and owner of BESPOKED reflects on his year one clever quip at a time…
To close out our editorial team’s favorites lists, Hailey Moore weighs in with her top products from the year, with a couple women’s-specific picks, and shares the rides, reads, tunes, and more that shaped her 2024.
Next up in our year-end recaps, Josh shares a list of his favorite products that span an eclectic range from cycling components and apparel to car camping creature comforts and even laundry detergent. He also reflects on a career-defining project, his approach to reigniting creative sparks in response to waning social media interest, and shares some pivotal music and books that inspired him along the way. Read on below for Josh’s favorites…
