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, āMonster Gravelā. Drop Bar MTB vs Monster Gravel Below, youāll see […]
Gravel used to be easy, right? Take a slacker road bike, mount bigger tires, and hit the backroads. But the category split into niches faster than anything before it. Where mountain biking took decades to have XC, downcountry, trail, all-mountain, enduro, and DH, gravel branched out in just a few short years. Now we have […]
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 […]
For many of us, bicycles are a passion that develops early in childhood as the thrill of pedaling creates opportunities to explore beyond where your walking legs can take you. Some people come to cycling later in life due to circumstances that force them onto the bike as they must give up another sport, while […]
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 ādid itā? Or do you want to have a fun time doing something that you love very […]
When the title of a review starts with the headline “The Sage Skyline Could Be the Last Road Bike You Ever Buy”, you know some lofty goals have been set. From the sound of things, it does not look like we failed in that endeavour. We sent a Skyline road bike to our good friend […]
How do you compare one bicycle frame size to another? Geometry charts for bicycles can be quite confusing – there are so many numbers and measurements! And not every brand shares every measurement. Or they may list them differently. For example, some brands may tell you Bottom Bracket Drop while others will tell you Bottom […]
2 of our very own Frontier Team riders (Quoc Vo and John Lee) drove from SoCal to the high desert of Arizona to tackle the BWR AZ Wafer ride. The Wafer ride is a shorter version of the Waffle length ride, but keeps all of the fun stuff while dispensing with some of the more […]
AlohaĀ (/ÉĖloŹhÉĖ/É-LOH-hah,Ā Hawaiian:Ā [ÉĖlohÉ]) 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 […]
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 […]
Is something still a blur if it happened in the past but you are still in the blur? Would you say, āMADE 2023 was a blurā¦ā or would you say āMADE 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. […]
What is Cerakote and why do we use it on the majority of our finishes? There are many different types of finishes that can be applied to a bicycle frame. Everything from wet paint to anodization to a bead blasted finish and to powder coating just to name a few of the most popular choices, […]
