Everything and the Kitchen Sink: Redshift Sports Comfort Components Review Roundup

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Everything and the Kitchen Sink: Redshift Sports Comfort Components Review Roundup

Founded in 2013 by a group of mechanical engineers with a bad cycling habit (or, maybe the other way around?), Redshift Sports specializes in designing and manufacturing component systems to increase speed and comfort on the bike. In this review round-up, Hailey Moore assesses a handful of Redshift’s products—the Quick-Release Aerobars, Shocktop Pro Suspension Seatpost, Cruise Control Drop Bar Grips, and the Kitchen Sink Handlebar—and how they might benefit road and gravel-oriented riders as part of Redshift’s intended systems, or as standalone additions to any all-road setup.

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RedShift Sports’ Arclight Bike Pedals

With the days getting shorter, chances are your commutes are going to have less daylight. We’ve seen similar pedal designs before, but the newest product from RedShift Sports takes commuting safety lights to the next level. The Arclight Bike Pedals light up when you start pedaling and turn off when you stop. These lights also change color from white to red depending on their orientation – i.e. red always face the rear of the bike and white, the front. The details don’t stop there, so head to Kickstarter to see more!

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Redshift: Dream Bike Giveaway

Redshift is once again hosting a mighty fine giveaway where you can enter to win a Niner RLT 9 RDO Carbon Frame in your size fitted with:
– Redshift ShockStop Seatpost
– Redshift ShockStop Stem
– Shimano GRX Di2 Groupset
– Hunt X-Wide Carbon Wheels
– WTB Venture Tires
– WTB SL8 Saddle
– Xpedo Mforce 8 Pedals
– Stages Power Meter & Head Unit
– Free Shipping
– A Total Value of Over $8,000!

Head to Redshift to sign up!

Redshift Sports: Kitchen Sink Gravel Handlebar

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Redshift Sports: Kitchen Sink Gravel Handlebar

Redshift has made a name for themselves by listening to what consumers want with their gravel bikes and the latest from the brand embodies that. The Kitchen Sink Handlebar comes in widths from 44cm up to 50cm and is designed to make your off-road experience as comfortable as posttible. Aiding in this is an option for an 150mm aerodynamic loop extension and options for their ergonomic Cruise Control Grip System.

Specs:
-20mm RISE means less pressure on the hands and a broad range of fit options.
-7° SWEEP means the bar is positioned where your hands want to be, whether your on the flats, the hoods or the drops.
-25° FLARE on a compact drop means a stable, aerodymanic drop position that is actually comfortable enough to use.
-Optional endurance loop adds an alternative aerodynamic riding position and a perfect spot for gear storage and mounting accessories.
-Retail $99
-Shipping in December

Head to Redshift to see more!

RedShift’s ShockStop Suspension Seatpost is in Stock and Shipping Now

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RedShift’s ShockStop Suspension Seatpost is in Stock and Shipping Now

RedShift’s ShockStop suspension seatpost was designed and engineered for gravel and all-road bikes, particularly for those longer rides or races where rough roads can do damage to your rear end, thanks to their patent-pending ShockStop system which provides 35mm of tunable suspension travel. Check out more information at RedShift.

-35mm of active suspension travel
-Infinitely adjustable preload stiffness adjustment
-Swappable springs included for different rider weights
-Optimized linkage geometry provides ultra-responsive suspension
-27.2mm x 350mm length (shims available to fit larger seat tube sizes)
-497g

Enter to Win a Dream Gravel Bike from Pivot Cycles and Redshift Sports!

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Enter to Win a Dream Gravel Bike from Pivot Cycles and Redshift Sports!

Are you a roadie looking to get dirtier on your rides? Or a mountain biker that loves your Pivot and would like to take on some challenging gravel rides? Or perhaps you are just tired of your clapped out all-road bike? Redshift and Pivot worked on a kick-ass giveaway where you can enter for a chance to win this $8k Redshift Sports edition Pivot Vault gravel bike. All you have to do is head over to Redshift to sign up! The giveaway sign up ends June 5th so get on it!

Wish List: Vol. 1 – Tools, Trucks, Bottles, and Butts

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Wish List: Vol. 1 – Tools, Trucks, Bottles, and Butts

Welcome to the first 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 dives in first with a list that spans this spectrum quite nicely.

FAIL 14: The Quest for Shade on a Cycling Tour from Portugal to Belgium

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FAIL 14: The Quest for Shade on a Cycling Tour from Portugal to Belgium

A reggae legend once told me, ‘the hardest part is the start!’ But let me tell you, Johnny Osbourne never faced the world of long-distance cycling. The start may be tough, but stopping, oh, stopping is a beast of its own. It’s like vertigo, a swirling chaos that leaves you dizzy and disoriented, a sailor back on solid ground after weeks at sea or a diver breaking the surface after a deep plunge. Everything becomes surreal, nothing makes sense, and you yearn for something to hold on to, but there’s nothing, just an immovable void.

For fourteen relentless days, I pushed forward, covering at the very least a hundred kilometers a day, as landscapes, faces, and weather slowly morphed around me. From scorching 43-degree heat to 10-degree cold which by then felt like -10! I rode on. My journey, a long bike ride from my new home in Portugal to my old abode in Belgium, driven by a selfish urge, wrapped in a cloak of nobility.

Get Smart: Arclight LED PRO Pedals First Ride Review

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Get Smart: Arclight LED PRO Pedals First Ride Review

With a product line already built around bringing more functional comfort to cycling, Redshift Sports dipped into the safety and visibility terrain with the release of their original smart LED Arclight Pedals. The Philly-based brand is starting this Spring off with an updated release of the design in the Arclight PRO series, which brings commuters an improved Flat Pedal option or versatile all-new Dual-Sided Clipless version. Hailey Moore shares a first look at both models below!