Electronic groupsets have garnered plenty of attention over the years. Largely dominated by Shimano, they offer reliable, crisp shifting without any cable friction. Tap and shift. Tap and…
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Every year, a handful of bikes pass through my garage. Most are great and some are measurably better than others. On occasion, though, a bike comes in…
As the proliferation of 1×11 drivetrains has expanded, so has the affordability. Of course, as the the purveyors of 1x drivetrains, SRAM is leading the charge…
Did you hear that? The mic has been dropped and the folks from SRAM just did the dropping. Building on the fervor surrounding Red eTap, SRAM…
Fresh off the peloton, the iconic Ted King just posted a photo of his new Cannondale SuperSix EVO e Disc and it looks stunning. Not are…
Unless you’ve been under a rock, the storyline about road disc brakes this past month reads more like daytime TV than Saturday evening crits. For the 2016 racing…
12-speed eh? Yup… 12 speeds. SRAM has already said goodbye to the front derailleur. They have already turned all of us into 1x snobs. They have…
SRAM has effectively dropped a bomb on road bike shifting over the past year by introducing both SRAM Red eTap and 1x drivetrains for the road. Here…
It’s no secret that SRAM is out to kill the front derailleur on mountain bikes — and even a good chunk of road bikes. The recent…
We’re decidedly in the “Pre-Sea Otter Season.” The time when bike all the big boys start releasing their latest new products for the 2017 model year.…
When Ibis launched their ultra-wide rims a few years back, many people scoffed — that is until they rode them. Fast-forward a couple of years and…
Move over road discs, this year SRAM owns 100% of the bike technology spotlight with the RED eTap wireless groupset. While the eTap HydroR is certainly forthcoming,…
The simplicity of going 1x for MTB can’t be overstated. Granted, it’s not for everyone, but for anyone with a solid fitness level, it’s simply the…
After years of prototype spotting and speculation, SRAM pulled the wraps off their new electronic shifting groupset, RED eTap. Of the bat, something that you’ll notice is…
Disc-equipped road and cyclocross bikes are officially a thing and SRAM is leading out with class-leading ergonomics and bombproof braking performance in Red, Force and Rival flavors.…
True versatility is sometimes hard to find, but when you do find it, you can do no wrong. Such is the case with the new Argon…
For 2016, Salsa is kicking their gravel-friendly Warbird up a notch. I was lucky enough to spend a few hours aboard it on a 40 mile mixed…
The morning was rainy. Let me re-phrase, it was dumping buckets. Our destination was a mixed bag of dirt (ahem, mud) and paved roads to get…
While hub and axle standards do their thing and road discs get the green light, SRAM is not sitting around on their collective 1×11 laurels. Nope,…
Slotting in between the X1 1×11 and the X5 drivetrains is the all-new SRAM GX groupset family. Available in the coming months, this new workhorse component…