Our buddy Alexandera Houchin is now riding for Esker Cycles. Read on for the full announcement and a quote from Alexandera!
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Monday Rad Bazaar Finds
Today, we’ve got a fine selection of used goods from the Rad Bazaar, our Group Ride subscribers‘ selling platform, featuring some unique offerings. Let’s check it all out!
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VIDEO: Esker Cycles – The Link With Takashi Minamiura
Esker Cycles presents The Link with Takashi Minamiura. Watch as Takashi rides his bike to snowboard and then hits some trails on the way home.
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Esker Cycles Announces New Colors for Hayduke and Japhy
Esker Cycles has updated the colors of their flagship steel hardtails, the Hayduke and Japhy, for 2024. The geometry and quad-butted steel frame remains the same as last year. All frames come with updated UDH Portage dropouts. Esker has expanded their offerings to include frame only, frame and fork, complete builds, and singlespeed complete builds.
Read on for more details…
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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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Esker Bitesized Bikepacking with Sincere Cycles on the Hayduke LVS
Esker Cycles, Sincere Cycles, and The Radavist took off early one afternoon and headed into the Santa Fe National Forest for an overnighter on the new Esker Cycles Hayduke LVS…
Check out our review: A Titanium Chariot: Esker Cycles Hayduke LVS Longtail Review
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A Titanium Chariot: Esker Cycles Hayduke LVS Longtail Review
Announced at this year’s Moab Outerbike, the Esker Cycles Hayduke LVS –available as a frame ($2,950) or a complete ($4,950)–is a hardtail mountain bike with 600-millimeter chainstays and touring accouterments aplenty. Esker even developed a specialty rack for this bike, dubbed the Molle Rackwald ($300.) Needless to say, it’s a unique offering from the brand.
John was able to ride one for a bit, including on an overnighter with the Esker Cycles team and Sincere Cycles in Santa Fe, so read on for an in-depth look at this rare and funky bike!
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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
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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Radar Roundup: Chris King Splash, Esker Limited Edition MRP ShredKote Purple Cerakote Japhy, Santa Cruz Skitch, Rune Bicycles Unnamed Drop Bar, Riv Silver Cranks in Stock, Wolf Tooth 3-Bolt T-Type Chainrings, Crank Brothers F-Series Tools, Ass Savers X Squid Bikes, and Whisky Scully Bar
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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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
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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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
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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Radar Roundup: Esker Revamps the Hayduke, Rons Socks, Bespoked in Dresden, Downieville Classic 2023,and Gone Bikepacking Thailand
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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Radar Roundup: Hayduke Lives, Work for Old Man Mountain, Chirp Chirp Cycles, Winter Bikepacking, and A Ride for Kids
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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Esker Cycles Announces Equity Crowdfunding Raise with StartEngine
Since Esker Cycles launched in 2018, the brand has seen its popularity grow in addition to its product line. Now, the Montana-based manufacturer of state-of-the-art mountain bikes is launching an equity crowdfunding raise on the StartEngine platform.
Read on for the details.
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Esker Cycles Hayduke Gets Coated in Four New Colors
The Esker Cycles Hayduke is one of the most capable production hardtails on the market and now it’s available in four new colors including this “bluebird” color. Head on over to Esker to check out the other new colors available this year.
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Esker Cycles Announces Ride Scholarship Program
Esker Cycles is excited to announce a new ride scholarship with the purpose of enabling more people to get outside on mountain bikes.
This summer, Esker Cycles wants to help get you out on the trail. With the Esker Ride Scholarship, we are providing a selected applicant the opportunity to receive a new Esker hardtail mountain bike to help them get out and do anything that they can dream up such as planning their next multi-day adventure or simply enjoying a first-time experience on a mountain bike.
We understand that there are barriers to entry within our sport, one of them being the upfront cost of purchasing a bike to ride. With this ongoing scholarship, we hope to be able to reduce those barriers ever so slightly in the best way that we know-how—by offering a bike to a rider that could use it and providing an opportunity to get out and ride.
Anyone that would like to apply should fill out an application at eskercycles.com by July 31 to tell us why they think they would be a good fit for the ride scholarship, and what they plan to do with a new Esker hardtail mountain bike. Esker is especially encouraging newer riders with a vision for a particular ride or adventure and an interest in telling their story to apply.
It is expected that the selected applicant will carry out their ride or adventure within a year of receiving the bike, and that they will share their mountain biking experience with us through the medium of their choice. The selected rider will receive a Hayduke or Japhy in the size and color of their choice.
Esker started with a mission of getting more people outside on bikes, and this ongoing scholarship is just one small way for us to continue with that mission, and to enable more people to enjoy the sport of mountain biking like we do.
For more information on the program, and to apply, head to eskercycles.com/pages/ride-scholarship
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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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Locke and His Esker Cycles Hayduke Singlespeed 29er
George Hayduke. The fictional anti-hero created by the protector of the Western ‘wilderness’, Ed Abbey. While much of Abbey’s political pennings haven’t aged well, he still brought awareness to the American West unsurpassed by any other author of that time. Abbey’s fictional masterpiece, the Monkey Wrench Gang, is a must-read for any lover of the Four Corners and Canyon Country. In it, a ragtag group of desert rats embarks on a journey to dismantle the corporate machines threatening the cherished ecosystems found on the Colorado Plateau. The term “monkeywrenching” and even “eco-terrorist” stemmed from this book as its characters threw a literal wrench in the spokes of the all-consuming corporate machine.
Esker Cycles’ predecessor brand, Advocate Cycles, used the “Earth First” fist on their headtubes and their flagship bike was the Hayduke. When the brand became Esker, they kept the Hayduke model and its signature monkey wrench decals.
Locke reviewed a Hayduke a few years ago. You can read that review in our archives but when he swung through Santa Fe on a recent jaunt, I linked up with him and shot his own personal singlespeed 29er build. Read on for more…