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Bike Design 101: Designing a ā€œMonster Gravelā€ Bike

In Part One of this Monster Gravel series, I showed you how we went from a simple gravel bike to having a version for everything from racing to exploring to bikepacking and more. And how all of that quickly led to this latest category, ā€œMonster Gravelā€. Drop Bar MTB vs Monster Gravel Below, youā€™ll see […]

The Review Did Not Lie

Print and online reviews serve a valuable purpose for both the manufacturers and the consumers. For the manufacturers, they allow us to share our products with a wider audience than would be possible if we did not engage with media outlets at all. For the consumers, it allows them to learn more about a product […]

Oregon Trail 2024 Recap

Who does these sorts of things? I mean, what kind of person do you have to be to undertake an endeavor such as this? Is it the pleasure or the pain? Is it the challenge to say you ā€œdid itā€? Or do you want to have a fun time doing something that you love very […]

Aloha, Barlow

AlohaĀ (/əĖˆloŹŠhɑĖ/ə-LOH-hah,Ā Hawaiian:Ā [əĖˆlohə]) is theĀ HawaiianĀ word forĀ love,Ā affection,Ā peace,Ā compassionĀ andĀ mercy, that is commonly used as a greeting.[1][2]Ā It has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance toĀ native Hawaiians, for whom the term is used to define a force that holds together existence. (Carrol, Bret (2000).Ā The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America.Ā Psychology Press. p.Ā 19.Ā ISBNĀ 9780415921312) It could be said that the Barlow is a […]

A Unique Build

Since its launch in 2019, the Storm King has developed into quite the versatile bike. Race bike, trail bike, adventure bike, or even bikepacking, the Storm King does it all. The list of customers who build up different variants of the bike is constantly changing as well. Some builds are more “raw” while others can […]

MADE 2023 Show Recap

Is something still a blur if it happened in the past but you are still in the blur? Would you say, ā€œMADE 2023 was a blurā€¦ā€ or would you say ā€œMADE 2023 is still blurry because ofā€¦.ā€? Either way, the MADE 2023 show was amazing and easily the best show of the year to attend. […]

Mountain Bike Action Review: 2023 Flow Motion

Back in 2019, Mountain Bike Action reviewed our first hardtail mountain bike- the Flow Motion. The conversation in the beginning was something along the lines of: “Hardtail? Yeah, we have some FS bikes we want to ride but we will give your bike a shot.” Not exactly confidence inspiring, but at least they were willing […]

Tackling the streets of PDX

Usually we strive to get photography done and posted for each custom bike we do with the expectation that we will showcase the bike both in social media and advertising as the bike is being delivered to the customer. However, there are those times where we get a little busy and things don’t always line […]

The Polished Beauty

For the 2020 Chris King Handbuilt show, the color choices were either Gold or a Two Tone Black/ Gold. The Gold was going to be polished and the Two Tone Black/ Gold was going to be a matte finish. Both colors were gorgeous in their own rights, but once we saw the shine of the […]

Cover Page! Storm King GP in Road Bike Action

The Storm King GP came about due to the evolution in Gravel Racing and Gravel Riding. As riders continue to push the boundaries of their bikes further and further, it was only a matter of time before the components that would go on their frames would evolve as well. With the creation of the new […]

Inside Look at Sage Titanium

Year in and year out, we ride, test, and see plenty of bikes on the road. And whether itā€™s a road, cyclocross or gravel bike, titanium remains as much a popular and reasonable frame material to consider as any other.  How do we know?  Because the Wall Street Journal says so! ā€œTitanium has become the […]