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For those who prefer to spin up steep climbs, rather than power through them, Wolf Tooth has a new super-compact chainring for 4-bolt GRX cranks. These new rings go from 36t (!!!) through 46t and bolt right up to the GRX gravel cranks by Shimano. These rings, unlike a lot of components in the industry now, are in stock and shipping today from Wolf Tooth.
Our friend Collette is an artist living in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She designed this logo called “Food Chain’s a Bitch” for Matt from the Monumental Loop. Matt used it in his custom Rogue Panda framebag and after much demand, Rogue Panda has offered this as a custom design option for their framebags! See more at Rogue Panda under “more” options for the fabric choices.
We’ve got a project we’re really excited to launch with Collette, so say tuned for future updates as events warrant…
Bellingham’s Ground Keeper Custom has teamed up with Loam Equipment to add some color to their bikepacking harnesses, with five colorways available, ranging from oil slick (pictured) to Space Ferns. Each of these harnesses are designed to hold drybags for your goods while bikepacking.
Saddle Harness Specs:
-Made in Bellingham, WA
-Weight: 172.5g (6.08 oz)
-Using with a dropper post? Snag one of these Wolftooth Valais 25 for the best fit.
-Ladder lock buckles come in mystery colors, which keeps factory overrun parts out of landfills.
-Bag sold separately. Harness works with most 8-13 liter or 18“-24” cylindrical stuff sacks or dry bags.
Handlebar Harness Specs:
-Made in Bellingham, WA
-Weight: 231g (6.08 oz)
-Ladder lock buckles come in mystery colors, which keeps factory overrun parts out of landfills.
-Extra fat foam blocks help clear brake/shifting cables and maintain space for hands on road bars
-Bag sold separately. Harness works with most 8-13 liter or 18“-24” cylindrical stuff sacks or dry bags.
See the entire bikepacking collection at Ground Keeper.
Swift Industries just announced the newest bag to their ever-expanding lineup dubbed the Every Day Caddy. Speaking of expanding, this new saddle pack has a 1L capacity, features a Voile strap closure, an expanding roll-top design, and weighs a mere 3.75oz. The EDC comes in standard Swift colors as well as a limited edition Swift Campout edition purple EDC. Retail on both is $80.
Did you see the full Swift Campout purple collection? It’s mind-blowing!
See more at Swift Industries.
At roughly the size of a 1000ML Nalgene bottle, with a fill-up time of fewer than 30 seconds, the MSR Guardian Purifier water filter might just be the best filter on the market for all bicycle-related outings, yet it will cost ya… Let’s take a look at this game-changing filter in detail below.
Wolf Tooth has a knack for figuring out how to stuff your stuff into the crevices and otherwise unusable frame spaces thanks to their innovative B-Rad cargo systems. To up the ante, they just updated their rolltop storage bags with a new Teklite fabric. These bags are more durable and lighter, enabling you to jam them full of arm warmers, a spare tube, a lightweight jacket, or a burrito if you don’t mind smashed pinto beans and chile…
Specs:
-0.6L capacity to carry riding essentials: multi-tools, spare tube, or snacks
-Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) material is lightweight, strong, and durable
-Roll-top design protects contents from water, dirt, and other road grit
-Silicone-backed strap with hook-and-loop design keeps bag securely in place
-Flexible, durable construction from a composite of abrasion-resistant, high-tenacity fibers
See more at Wolf Tooth.
I’ve been riding DOOM Bars since the brand first launched last year on my Retrotec singlespeed. Bailey has been sending them on his basket bike and late last year, I added them to my Sklar tourer as well. Today we featured Kyle’s Sklar touring bike, which features the new “Bikepacker’s Delight”, a bar with 19-degree backsweep, a 5” wide stem clamp area (for bags and such), 38mm rise (1.5”), and come shipped at 875mm wide (34.4”), which can be cut to 780mm with a 185mm grip area.
While the black powdercoated Bikepacker’s Delight are sold out, DOOM still has nickel-plated bars in stock (pictured above). These bars are perfect for singlespeeds, trail bikes, tourers, klunkers, and the like. We’re stoked to continue to support New Mexico-based makers and are more than excited to continue to support DOOM in their endeavores.
Check out DOOM Bars‘ new website and browse their current bar options!
If you mix and match various shifters and brake levers, your MTB cockpit can get real crowded, real fast. The Wolf Tooth ShiftMounts are adapter mounts that allow you to integrate SRAM and Shimano shifters with several different brakes from Shimano, SRAM, and Magura. With eight different mounting plates, there is literally something for just about any configuration from these three brands. Head to Wolf Tooth to see more.
The Mission Workshop Stahl shorts are some of our favorite do-it-all summer riding and all-day shorts on the market. The newest Stahl are the Stahl LT, which are made with Tweave’s 518C, resulting in a 35% lighter final product when compared to the 520E fabric used in Mission’s classic Stahl short design. Available now in blue, black, and a variety of sizes at Mission Workshop.
While Search and State might be known for their limited edition camouflage prints, their latest batch is full of floral patterns in the S2-R jersey model. Head on over to Search and State to check out these designs before they’re gone.
Our friends at the Service Course are working with Argonaut Cycles now and are the exclusive distributor for the UK, Europe, and Australia customers. Here’s a quick video profile on the brand, introducing their new partnership:
From humble beginnings building steel frames by hand, Ben Farver and the team behind Argonaut Cycles now produce some of the finest custom carbon bikes in the world, controlling the entire process from raw material through to final build at their high tech composite facility in Bend, OR.
Taking inspiration from F1 race cars and aerospace engineering as much as the personal connection forged with every Argonaut customer, their latest creation is the RM3: an “argument” to the wider cycling industry as the most complete road bike imaginable, uniquely tuned to the exact requirements of each rider.
See more at the Service Course!
Iozzio Cycles, makers of the ingenious one-hitter dugout that lives in your steerer tube (1 1/8″ and 1″) dubbed the Shotgun, have developed a new product called the Strikeout which includes a refillable butane match, a replaceable flint, and one-hitter. Find out how you can win the first production Strikeout and help out Food with Fam, a NYC-based non-profit below.
Boone Technologies, makers of the 1990s “Twist” cranks and other cycling components, have been making titanium singlespeed cogs and rings for a while now but they just announced their new aerodynamic Cranx! machined aluminum cranks. Here’s the product blip from Boone:
These are a new set of cranks that we’ve developed that are CNC machined out of billet aluminum. The unique curve of these cranks not only provides excellent aerodynamic drag reduction but also looks great on any bike. They are available in polished finish These cranks weigh in at 245 grams per arm and measure 175 mm (6.89 in) in length. The internal spline attachment we machined for these cranks is compatible with BB30 standard bottom brackets.
While these cranks aren’t as wild looking as the Twist cranks, they are a very unique design. The price? $495 direct from Boone Technologies…
Swift Industries’ bags are in high, high demand these days, so we’ll do our best to alert you when they come back in stock. If you’ve been wanting to buy a Zeitgeist bag after reading Spencer’s review last year, now’s your chance. They got all three colors back in stock and shipping now from Swift Industries.
Named after the Pinhoti Trail, which extends between Snake Creek Gap and Dug Gap within the Chattahoochee Forest into north Georgia, Litspeed’s newest iteration of their hardtail, the Pinhoti III, received some modern updates. Now optimized for a 130mm suspension fork, the Pinhoti III also fits a 29×2.6″ or a 27.5×3″ tire, thanks to an asymmetric dropped chainstay and a new CNC-machined titanium chainstay yoke.
The Geometry has been tweaked as well, with a slacker head angle, longer reach, and a few other tweaks. Litespeed offers various builds (XTR shown here at a retail of $6,699) and finishing kits, and with all these new updates, the size medium frame comes in at just 1,649 grams (size medium)—a savings of 95 grams over our previous version of the Pinhoti. As with all Litespeed bikes, these are made in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
See more at Litespeed.
For lovers of the Wald 139, aka the big basket, the Swift Motherloaf delivers all the details of their popular Sugarloaf bag, in an extra-large carrying capacity. These bags come in three colors, have a massive 30L capacity, and are in stock now at Swift Industries.
Twin Six teamed up with Bike Jerks in a cross-town handshake to each other’s years of spreading stoke. In this drop includes a jersey, jacket, bibs, and bottles, all with a psychedelic rendering of Baroo, Jeff’s dog. See the full drop at Twin Six.
Ain’t it a perdy thing when yer pals get together to create beautiful products? Camp and Go Slow‘s western diamondback (Crotalus atrox) and eastern diamondback (Crotalus adamanteus) skin bar tape pattern has made its way onto the trim of some of Swift Industries‘ most iconic bags, alongside a collaboration patch. These will be available tomorrow at noon, PST but you can check out the full drop below right now…
