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Sim Works Pop Up at Transit Cycles in Tucson, AZ!
Our friends from Sim Works USA are in Tuscon this weekend with Jenna and the Transit Cycles team. Josh and Spencer were there yesterday and documented the shop and some of the fun in the gallery below.
Sim Works will be at Transit again Sunday from 11-4, so if you’re in the area be sure to stop by and say hello!
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Falconer Cycles Now Offers Titanium Frames: A Look at Cameron’s Hardtail Touring Bike and Rack
Falconer Cycles is now making titanium frames and last weekend, he unveiled a stunning titanium hardtail touring bike to John…
For creatives – be it sculptors or painters – expanding into other mediums is often fulfilling and cathartic. Learning new methodologies and processes keeps makers engaged with their work. Lots of bicycle fabricators start out TIG welding steel frames and, later, expand into working with titanium. This offers new horizons for not only the brand but also for loyal followers to access a superior material.
Cameron Falconer is the latest builder to be documented here expanding into titanium from steel. While in Southern Arizona last weekend, John caught up with Cam who showcased a titanium hardtail touring bike with a custom titanium rack. This was “John’s modern bike shoot of the year” as he put it excitedly and you can see why below…
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Radar Roundup: Mone SB2 Frames, Esker LVS Hayduke, Brooks MT21 Multitool, Psychedelic Safety, WZRD Bar Bag Spacers, and Remember to Breathe
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Radar Roundup: Tectonic Pedals, Squid Gravtron V2, Esker Portage UDH, CdC Classic Road Shoes, Steve Potts Chinook Saddle, Colorado Trail Race 2013, and Ezequiel Gignone
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Radar Roundup: Ritchey Mustard Ultra, Win a Custom Esker Hayduke, Rapha + Shrimps, Priority 600HXT, Ene Ciclo Shifters, Rivendell Hats, Komoot Women’s Arizona Rally 2023, and The Balkans Mirage: A Journey on Wheels
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Radar Roundup: Insane Speedvagen Sale, Win a Radavist Sklar Bike, Esker Singlespeed Builds, Ibex Sun Hoodie, Do Wheels Have to Be Round?, and No Summit in Sight
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Radar Roundup: Esker Revamps the Hayduke, Rons Socks, Bespoked in Dresden, Downieville Classic 2023,and Gone Bikepacking Thailand
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Dancing with Titanium: An Esker Japhy Ti 29er Hardtail Review
As far as production hardtails are concerned, the Esker Japhy is one of the most excellent all-rounder options out there. Truthfully, I had very little to critique with the steel Japhy, and so I was elated when they reached out asking if I’d like to throw my leg over a new titanium Japhy. Read on below for my thoughts and a full gallery of details…
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Radar Roundup: Hayduke Lives, Work for Old Man Mountain, Chirp Chirp Cycles, Winter Bikepacking, and A Ride for Kids
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The Esker Japhy Review: One Scrappy 29er Hardtail
When one thinks of Esker Cycles, the Hayduke 27.5+ hardtail (reviewed here by Locke Hassett) quickly comes to mind – and in many ways, the Hayduke served as the launchpad for the design of Esker’s latest model, the Japhy.
While the Japhy looks like considerably “less bike” than the 140mm Hayduke with its 120mm fork and 29″ wheels, don’t count it out yet: the Japhy is scrappy and is willing to claw its way through just about anything!
Over the past few months I’ve been riding the Japhy all over our local trails here in Santa Fe and while at first I was hesitant about taking it out on some of the more technical terrain, I found it to be an exceptional climber and a surprisingly fun descender.
So, let’s get into it!
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The Esker Hayduke is Back in Stock with a New Fork Spec
The Hayduke is one of the best steel hardtails on the market and it just got better. Until now, Hayduke completes have been equipped with a 120mm 29er fork built with 27.5+ wheels, which allowed riders to swap between the 27.5+ and 29er wheel sizes. While that same swapping ability still exists for Hayduke framesets, complete builds will now feature a dedicated 27.5” fork with 140mm of travel, allowing Esker to develop a dedicated 29er model down the road. This increased travel with a dedicated 27.5″ wheel means the A-T-C length is the same as a 120mm and 29er wheel, so riders can always buy a frameset and build their Hayduke up that way as well thanks to the Portage dropout system, which allows users to adjust their chainstay length.
Hayduke framesets come standard with Portage dropouts, an axle, seat collar, and a Wolf Tooth Components headset for $750. Complete builds are available in limited quantities at 3 levels starting with H1 at $2000, H2 at $2950, and H3 at $3250. Framesets and completes are available through eskercycles.com.
See more at Esker Cycles.
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Cedaero 16L Love Handle Panniers
There is no shortage of ultralight, compact mini panniers on the market these days, but sometimes you want or need more capacity and would benefit from a more durable material for the long haul.Cedaero‘s new Love Handle panniers are just that and more. Let’s take a look at these in detail…
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The Radavist Product Awards and Top Ten Articles of 2023
While our favorite stories are always ride and event coverage, people love flocking to The Radavist for our opinion on products. We view ourselves as the bike industry’s press corps, offering nuanced takes on hot items each year, while pushing back ever so slightly on the long arm of the industry’s marketing. This year, we cracked a lot of hard nuts but walked away with some compelling products—some of which deserve extra recognition—all while deciphering the world of bikes we know and love, and penning opinion pieces that garnered lots of eyes throughout the past twelve months.
Let’s check out The Radavist Product Awards and our Top 10 Articles of 2023 below!
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International SingleSpeed Day 2023 Ride!
November 2nd is International SingleSpeed Day. It’s a celebration of Paul from Paul Component Engineering and his good friend Amanda‘s birthday.
The rules for celebration are simple: everyone, ride your singlespeeds! Gravel, road, or MTB; we’re all in on the one-gear birthday party celebration! John and Parker went out in Santa Fe for a sunset ride in the Dale Ball Trails, and they got some fun photos, so let’s check them out below…
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Radar Roundup: New Why R+, Hayduke and Japhy Ti, Tour de Kili, Blurred Lines, and Bikepacking on a Fixed Gear
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Bikepacking TZ: A Collection of Scenes and Short Stories
The pandemic has us in the throes of deep wanderlust. While travel has been momentarily halted, stories such as this get our minds whirling into a spiral of possibilities. Paulo LaBerge and Heather Plewes toured throughout Tanzania and Eastern Africa, penning a journal of sorts for Esker Cycles, filled with short stories. Today, we’re sharing those tales…
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Baja Divide: May You Fill Your Belly, Get Moving, and Be Grateful for the Tailwind
The doorbell of the Alaska bike shop jingled shut as another khaki shorts cruise ship goer left, leaving me alone at the counter for a brief moment to contemplate my future. My job at the bike shop would end in mid-September, and I wanted to be riding the Baja Divide in mid-January. These things were clear, what lay between them was not.