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Our European correspondent Petor Georgallou recently visited four North American framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. In the first installment of this series, Petor joins Memento Cycles of Montreal, Québec. Take a look behind the collective at Memento Cycles…
The Trust Performance Message linkage fork was an expensive, extravagant, and flawed attempt to change how we think about mountain bike design. The brand ceased operations in the early days of the pandemic, but Travis had high hopes for Trust. He also still has the Message fork he reviewed in 2019. A recent bikepacking trip inspired him to give it a second life with some new bolts, washers, and tiny, tiny bearings.
The 2024 NACCC (North American Cycle Courier Championships) took place in sunny San Diego, CA just two weeks ago. Josh was in town to photograph the week-long event’s finale and, along with co-organizers David Pintado and Luis Aguilar detail what NACCC is and what made this year’s San Diego edition truly memorable. Read on below!
Today we’re detouring into the gravity space in the lead-up to the 2024 Red Bull Rampage, the first edition of the event that will feature a women’s category. Hailey Moore shares a brief history of high-profile freeride mountain bike event and how a few of the women involved are thinking about this long-awaited milestone.
Photographer Erik Mathy has a problem: he has a hard time doing the same thing twice. For every project he takes on, he wants to use some new combination of camera, lens and film. When Bobby Wintle announced the Mega Mid South ultra endurance race, Erik decided to build his own camera to bring with him to Stillwater, OK. In this latest edition of Obscura, Erik shows us his latest handbuilt large format camera and explains how he went about putting it together.
The Tumbleweed Sunliner ($3775 complete) continues a long-held tradition of equipping a mountain bike with touring accoutrements. Since the mountain bike’s inception, people have been bolting racks and strapping bags to them, taking advantage of its beefy chassis and wide gearing to pedal deeper into rugged terrain than ever before. John has been riding the Sunliner all year in the Southern Rockies, both unloaded as a trail bike and loaded on camping trips. Read on for his thorough assessment of this timeless touring bike…
After John Caletti’s road bike crash, his friends completed this Disoriented Scrambler to showcase at MADE. It is a flat-bar single speed gravel bike with asymmetric, double top tubes and a 2.3″ clearance that fits people between 5’11” and 6’2″ in height. This one-of-a-kind dream bike is for sale now at Caletti Cycles.
We’re all wishing John a speedy recovery from his crash and are sending him all our love. You got this, dude!
Tyler from BTCHN Bikes has a pre-order running for his titanium bullmoose bars ($480) he debuted at this year’s MADE Bike Show on his Geoshift hardtail. When John saw them, he had to have them and forked out some cash to take a pair home. We’ve got a review coming up next week but we wanted to alert our readership that they do indeed rule, offer just the right amount of flex, without being too springy, plus look the part, even mimicking Tom Ritchey’s OG Bullmoose with just the right amount of shaping/ovalizing on the twin struts.
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See more at BTCHN Bikes!
Yesterday we looked Inside and Out of Meriwether Cycles via an in-depth Shop Visit. In that post, we offered a sneak peek at Whit’s production adventure gravel bike, the Ponderosa. John has been riding a prototype all year, providing Whit feedback for the final production model, which we’ll look at it in detail today. Read on for a full review of this tall and sturdy dream bike platform…
Whit Johnson’s handmade bike company, Meriwether Cycles, has been featured here at The Radavist periodically over the years. Recently, John spent a day at Whit’s small garage shop in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains of California and got out on a sunset pedal with him. Read on for a look inside and out of Meriwether Cycles, in addition to a preview of Whit’s new adventure gravel bike, the Ponderosa…
Daniel Yang from Neuhaus Metalworks, Artefact, and Yang MFG lends a helping hand to countless builders. From helping Meriwether design the complex bends for a unique fat bike to aiding in chainstay yoke and unique dropout designs, he has his hands in a lot. Including, unboxing a shipping container full of Tall Tale hardtails with Adam Sklar.
Watch as Daniel unboxes a box inside of an unboxing. Then he interviews, Adam Sklar, CEO/CMO/CFO of Sklar Bikes.
Chumba USA and Astral Cycling have teamed up and kitted-out a one-of-a-kind USA-built gravel adventure bike to raise funds for Bikepacking Roots’ (BPR) BIPOC Bike Adventure Grant! The Terlingua Steel frame will include Astral Outback Wheels and components from other Bikepacking Roots Sponsors White Industries, Shimano, Old Man Mountain and Paul Components. Find out how you can win it below!
To compliment Hailey Moore’s Shop Visit with Rodeo Adventure Labs, we’re sharing the people—and bikes!—behind the Denver-based company. Rodeo is known for going all-out on custom builds and paint schemes for its customers, but the staff bikes pictured here might be some of the most expressive we’ve seen from the brand yet.
What makes you smile while riding a bike? This question, and many more, brought our European correspondent – and big-time Star Wars aficionado – Petor Georgallou to purchase a Sturdy Cycles Cilla gravel bike (£8000) last year that he’s now dubbed an X-Wing. Did this futuristic titanium rebel alliance fighter-of-choice live up to his expectations? Read on to find out…
Thornhill Bike is launching with a presale of the Kitloader 70, a semi-rigid, collapsible mountain bike gear bag made with adjustable dividers and premium materials in Asheville, North Carolina. Read on for a closer look at all of the Kitloader 70’s organizational details and to learn more about founder James Leath’s obsessive quest to craft products that will keep his (and your) rides more dialed.
We had a great turnout at the Camera Corner world premiere at MADE last night! Our team is in the weeds with MADE coverage right now but we wanted to post a thank you to everyone who came out and shared in the stoke of Wende!
A huge thanks to YAKIMA for sponsoring the screening, We Are One for the bevs, and the MADE crew for showing the film!
We’ve got more showings of Camera Corner on the way. The next is in Santa Fe at the Jean Cocteau theater on the 25th of September and we’ll be sharing how to host a screening once we’re back from MADE.
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SimWorks will have a booth at @made.bike in Portland, OR August 23-25 and will do its first ever Ramen Outside Ride with @peace.sports. Join Sim Works for a ride celebrating the MADE show and riding bikes and all of the amazing people who make it possible.
The Sim Works team will ride from MADE (Zidell Yards) to Washington Park to eat ramen and hang out. Then, they’ll ride to SimWorks HQ to eat some homemade Onigiri to finish the ride and party!
Details:
Saturday, August 24
3:30pm: Meet up at MADE BIKE show (Zidell Yards)
4:00pm: Roll out
Make Ramen outside at Stevens Pavilion Picnic Shelter in Washington Park 🍜
6-8pm: End Onigiri Party at SimWorks HQ
Check out more at the Sim Works Instagram.
Camera Corner will have its world premiere at the MADE Bike Show Movie Night on Friday, August 23rd. It will screen at 8 PM at the Zidell Yards in Portland, Oregon, and your entry to the film is free if you have a MADE ticket for Friday. Otherwise, it’s $10. Yakima is sponsoring the movie night and We Are One is buying the first 400 beers for the evening events. Do not miss out!
We recommend buying your tickets ahead of time as this show will sell out and there are no guarantees you’ll be able to get in the night of. You can buy tickets at MADE.
Read on for more information about 2024 MADE.
