Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: King Fabrications

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Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: King Fabrications

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 fourth chapter of this series, Petor joins Li King of Berkeley, Ca of King Fabrications. Petor chats with Li about their lifetime dream to become a welder and NorCal’s specific style as they prepare to head to Germany.

Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: Good Grief Bicycles

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Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: Good Grief Bicycles

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 third chapter of this series, Petor joins Christopher Schmidt of Colorado Springs, CO, who builds bikes under the name Good Grief Bicycles. What’s it like to be a Native American framebuilder in the USA? Join Petor and Chris for a thought-provoking conversation and take a look behind the bikes at Good Grief…

Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: Significant Other Bikes

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Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: Significant Other Bikes

In the next installment of a four-part series, our European correspondent Petor Georgallou joins Significant Other Bikes of Denver, Colorado. Petor recently took a gonzo-style roadtrip through North America to visit four framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. Take a peek behind the bikes made by Ashley King at Significant Other

Wish List Vol. 2 – Travel Made Easy

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Wish List Vol. 2 – Travel Made Easy

Welcome to our second installment of Wish List, where Radavist contributors share their dreams of things that don’t exist, but maybe should. Some will be slightly niche but perfectly reasonable ideas that have every right to exist. Others will be impractical, expensive, and/or dangerous fantasies that probably should remain fantasies. Travis is back with another stack of requests, some of which go well beyond the bike industry.

Industry Nine is Donating 10% of Sales to Hurricane Helene Relief

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Industry Nine is Donating 10% of Sales to Hurricane Helene Relief

Our friends at Industry Nine, located in Ashville, North Carolina, were directly impacted by Hurricane Helene’s devastation. To support their staff, operations, and greater Western North Carolina community, Industry Nine is donating 10% of sales to Hurricane Helene relief through the end of October 2024. Read the full message from the brand below, including more info on how your purchase can help…

Vivo Cycling Enduro Derailleur Review – Big Bling

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Vivo Cycling Enduro Derailleur Review – Big Bling

Back in April, John found Vivo Cycling’s Instagram account, on which the brand displayed a US-assembled CNC rear MTB derailleur. It is big. It is blingy. But it was still affordable-ish ($320), thanks to Vivo’s global supply chain of machined parts. He reached out to get ahold of a prototype of the Enduro derailleur for review and has been riding it for about a month now. Read on for his thoughts on why it took almost thirty years for someone to make another US-assembled CNC derailleur!

Reflections on the Inaugural Arkansas Graveler: This Is Personal

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Reflections on the Inaugural Arkansas Graveler: This Is Personal

A local Arkansan who grew up in Bentonville, Hilary Lex left home after high school, swearing never to return. Fate brought her back and she rewrote the narrative of her relationship with The Natural State because of one unexpected thing: The Inaugural Arkansas Graveler. The Arkansas Graveler is a mixed-surface, 6-day ride across the state of Arkansas that takes cyclists from the rolling hills and hollers of the Ozarks down into the Arkansas Delta river bottoms. Read on below for Hilary’s personal recap…

Mega Mid South: Love Letters Written in Red Dirt

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Mega Mid South: Love Letters Written in Red Dirt

Erik Mathy returned to Stillwater, OK for the inaugural Mega Mid South, a 300-mile gravel cycling endurance event hosted by Bobby Wintle and the team who bring the Mid South to life every year. Below, feast your eyes on a gallery full of Erik’s unique handmade images and enjoy quotes and prose from the Oklahomans who welcome these events into their communities. Without further ado… this is the Mega Mid South.

Obscura: Erik Mathy’s Handmade 4 x 5″ Film Camera Review

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Obscura: Erik Mathy’s Handmade 4 x 5″ Film Camera Review

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.