Cory has been writing about mountain bikes, enduro, cyclocross, all-road, gravel bikes & bikepacking for over 25 years, even before the industry created some of these names. Prior to Bikerumor, Cory was a practicing Architect specializing in environmental sustainability, has designed bike shops & bike components, and worked as a bike shop mechanic.
Based in the Czech Republic for 15+ years, he is a technical mountain biker, adventurous gravel rider, and short & medium-haul bikepacker. Cory travels extensively across Europe riding bikes, meeting with key European product developers, industry experts & tastemakers for an in-depth review of what’s new, and what’s coming next.
Title: EU Tech Editor Location: Mountains of the Czech Republic
Expertise
Topics of Expertise: MTB, Enduro, Cyclocross, Gravel & All-Road cycling, Bikepacking & Adventure Touring, Technical Product Design & Engineering Development
Years in Expertise: 25+
Number of Products & Number of Hours Tested: 1000+ of new products in over 10,000 hours of ride testing
Education & Certifications
Education: M.Arch. in design & planning, Georgia Institute of Technology. B.S. in Architecture & Industrial Design, Georgia Institute of Technology & École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette.
Years of Writing: 25+
Certifications: Registered Architect, MTB/Backpacking Instructor and WAFA/Lifeguard (previous)
Club/Association Memberships: Association Internationale des Journalistes du Cyclisme
Previous Publications: Ride Lugged, The Voice of Reason
A Word from Cory Benson
Serving as Bikerumor’s EU Tech Editor allows me to leverage my design & engineering expertise to provide independent in-depth analysis of the cycling industry’s latest technological developments here in Europe. Riding, testing, reviewing & writing about these innovations allow me to share my unique technical perspective, combined with my personal love of all cycling disciplines.
I started sharing my strong opinions about technical developments in the cycling industry while a fresh wide-eyed designer, and then as a bike mechanic starting around 1996, sharing musings through a series of blogs & occasional contributions to local mags like Dirt Rag, at the time. It officially evolved into a full-time vocation with Bikerumor starting in 2013.
We saw a run of limited edition Descendant handlebars from Truvativ last summer as part of their CoLab collaborative series commemorating some of gravity riding’s recent heroes.…
Almost seven years ago Portuguese industrial designer Nuno Teixeira came up with a concept for a fully-faired carbon fiber track bike, named the Pluma. The idea…
The engineers at lightweight specialist Tune have been working to address the ongoing concerns of road disc brakes in the pro peloton for quite some time,…
Over the first weekend of proper cobbled Classics we had a chance to chat with the team of multi-discipline rider Pauline Ferrand-Prevot as they were prepping her aero…
The latest limited edition cycling print from 100 Copies is the most colorful we’ve seen from Singapore artist Thomas Yang. It looks a bit like spring…
Bianchi has just introduced a new Oltre XR3 road bike that incorporates their Countervail vibration damping carbon fiber tech into an aero design based on lessons…
Working together with the suspension techs at HiRide, Pinarello has revamped the tiny suspension damper in their Dogma K8-S Classics race bike bringing electronically controlled hydraulic…
At an FDJ team introduction ahead of this weekend’s Paris-Roubaix, French bike maker Lapierre unveiled their new Pulsium endurance road bike that the team will ride to…
We’ve seen a lot of different custom bikes, unique construction methods, and some pretty amazing finishes from the Czech bike builders at Festka, but their latest…
