Gazelle NL C8 HMB Review
The Gazelle NL C8 HMB is a cruiser style, mid-sized utility electric bike, that has been refined in several key ways for 2018. The older C7 offered a 7-speed internally…
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Giant Anthem Advanced Pro 29er 1
The Giant Anthem was first introduced in 2006 as the successor to the classic NRS. Following the Trance and Reign before it, the Anthem was one of the original models…
Propella V2.0 Single-Speed Review
Propella launched their first product on Indiegogo in early 2016 and has since produced a refined 2.0 version which is what I’m reviewing here. This product comes in either a…
The Vicious Cycle
The Vicious Cycle is a collaboration between retired frame-builder Duncan MacIntyre and composite specialist Anton Dekker. MacIntyre is South Africa’s most accomplished bicycle frame builder having built frames from the…
Try cyclocross this winter
Cyclocross is all about the smiles. It’s a little quirky riding a modified road bike around a muddy field for an hour, but that just makes it all the more…
This £7,000 Bike Is Made From Whisky Barrels
Every bike is made with about 15 whisky barrel staves utilizing Renovo’s unique hollow frame construction process. The design “embraces the trapezoidal shape of each stave, as well as the…
Liv Brava SLR 1
I race road and track. I like to go fast on smooth surfaces. Off-camber sections, gravel, and anything muddy are not my forte. But as the fall approached this past…
Specialized Vita Vinyasa
I mostly practice my yoga at home now, but when I used to frequent studios, one of the greatest challenges was to keep my studio trips on a schedule. Regularly…
Open Tube Bike Frame
Tubular composite truss structures made their debut early this decade. Designed and built at Brigham Young University (BYU, Provo, Utah) and trademarked as IsoTruss, this “open-tube” concept starts with the…
Orbea Terra is the do-it-all adventure bike
Orbea Terra’s versatile geometry, massive tire clearance, and oversized tubing N+1 (alternatively expressed as S-1) is a shorthand way of expressing every cyclist’s desire to own just one more bike.…
