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Esker Cycles Steel Smokey 160 mm Hardtail

Announced last month in a titanium chassis, the Esker Cycles Smokey is a 160 mm travel hardtail and now available in a steel frame. Let’s take a closer look…

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Esker Cycles Lorax Steel Drop Bar Mountain Bike

Announced back in May, the Esker Lorax is the ultimate, do-anything drop-bar mountain bike. Today the brand just announced a more affordable steel chassis material. Let’s check it out!

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Esker Cycles Smokey Ti Hardtail

Esker Cycles is broadening its hardtail lineup with its most aggressive hardtail, the Smokey Ti. Let’s check it out…

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Esker Cycles 2024 Lorax Titanium Drop Bar MTB

Esker Cycles’ Lorax is back and better than ever. The 2024 Esker Cycles Lorax Titanium is a boost drop bar MTB, with touring accouterments, and a 120 mm suspension corrected fork, designed for long-distance touring and adventure riding. Let’s take a closer look…

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VIDEO: Esker Cycles Bitesized Bikepacking with Transit Cycles: Tucson, AZ

In the second installment of “Bitesized Bikepacking”, Esker Cycles meets up with Transit Cycles in Tucson, AZ for another mid-week bikepacking mini-adventure. The goal of Bitesized Bikepacking is to highlight just how simple a night away can be.

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Alexandera Houchin is Riding for Esker Cycles

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…

Reportage By: John Watson

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

Reportage By: john watson

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!