It’s Friday and our brains are fried at BikeRadar after 5 days of continuous information. Earlier than taking a refreshing sip from the tasting flight of tech on this week’s First Look Friday, you, and definitely I, may do with a recap. Belief me, the week’s tales are a much better learn than the contents […]
Rondo’s unique gravel bike, the Ruut, is getting an entire redesign, with the brand new mannequin that includes an interrupted seat tube. By ditching the seat tube as we all know it, Rondo says it’s including parts-free, leaf-spring-like suspension to the body. Haven’t we seen one thing related not too long ago? Nicely, again on […]
This week, a sneak peek from an inner assembly with their Polish distributors has revealed an all-new Rondo Ruut CF Gen 2.0 gravel bike with a singular body that includes an interrupted seat tube. Properly, it might have appeared like a unique body design… till we noticed Specialised’s Angled Strut body patent earlier this week. […]
Specialised seems to be creating a radical new body design, in accordance with a patent utility filed by the corporate. The patent reveals a body with out the decrease part of the seat tube. As a substitute, what Specialised calls a ‘strut’ intersects the down tube, connecting the seatstay junction to a degree round two […]
A brand new Koga aero highway bike with a large head tube has been noticed. The as-yet-unreleased Koga belongs to Matthijs Büchli. It seems to be primarily based on the Koga Kinsei observe bike, which the Dutchman rode to Olympic Gold within the workforce dash in 2021. Just like the Kinsei, the unidentified Koga highway […]
Whereas some riders have gone down the tubeless path (notably off-road riders), there are additionally many who don’t need the effort and faff of organising tubeless and just like the simplicity of internal tubes. Selections In recent times a 3rd kind of internal tube has change into pretty broadly accessible, the TPU (Thermo Plastic) internal […]
The query, “Presta or Schrader?”, might appear to be black magic once you’re new to biking and head to a motorbike store to purchase a alternative internal tube. For the overwhelming majority of bikes, there are two forms of valve: Presta and Schrader. These two valves are mostly discovered on a bicycle internal tube and […]
Scott has utterly refreshed its trail-riding, all-mountain slaying Genius mannequin. Taking inspiration from the enclosed shock of its cross-country-focused Spark, the bike will get a 150mm makeover. Two fashions of the brand new bike can be accessible, with a typical Genius and a extra aggressive Genius Tremendous Path that’s designed with descending in thoughts. Each […]
Our newest Bike of the Week is the Superstrata Basic, a crowdfunded street bike and not using a seat tube and a novel carbon building. Superstrata is the bicycle model of guardian firm Arevo, which manufactures carbon components for the aerospace trade for purchasers comparable to Airbus. The 3D-printed bicycle was initially crowdfunded by way […]
Bianchi has reasserted itself on the aero race bike scene with the launch of the brand new Oltre RC, Oltre Professional and Oltre highway bikes. The brand new Oltre vary headlines by showcasing Bianchi’s new ‘Air Deflector’ know-how, which is alleged to channel airflow across the head tube, making a low-pressure zone behind to scale […]