Tyler Benedict is the Founder of Bikerumor, where he’s written about the latest bikes, components, and cycling technology for almost two decades. Prior to that, Tyler launched and built multiple sports nutrition brands and consumer goods companies, mostly as an excuse to travel and ride in new places.
Based in North Carolina, Tyler also loves Overlanding & Vanlife and is always on the lookout for the next vehicle upgrade, secret trail, and off-grid adventure.
It’s been pretty much one year exactly since we’d heard from A2J, the Swedish company that’s building “custom stock” carbon fiber road bikes at ridiculously…
SRAM has updated their original road group, Force, with some of the RED tech for 2013. Parts affected are the cranksets, rear derailleur and shifter levers.…
Following their Altitude 650B introduction at Crankworx, Rocky Mountain Bikes’ new Instinct 29er is a long travel trail bike that borrows the new Ride 9…
Being in the rumor business here, occasionally we stir up a few bees nests. Some of hearsay surrounding the Continental belt drive system introduced at…
Chiru, a South African French brand, isn’t the first to consider changing parts to convert a frame to work with multiple wheel sizes. Intense is doing…
Rose is direct-to-consumer European brand unfamiliar to most of us in the states. Their pitch is letting the consumer choose any compatible spec on any frame…
Before we get into the real products, this stunner is the Ergon Custom Cockpit – a full carbon fiber one-piece bar/stem/barends combo made for sponsored…
Following the ladies’ step-through bike shown earlier this year, Cooper launched an expansive line of extremely elegant looking city and road bikes. This is one…
Wahoo Fitness introduced the first Bluetooth-based heart rate and speed/cadence sensors for on-bike to work with the iPhone 4 and their own app. Now, just…
You never know what you’ll find walking around Eurobike. Sometimes prototypes and future products are hiding in plain sight, like these presumably MY 2013 Avid…
Ellsworth was showing a basically production-level prototype Evolve Carbon 29er full suspension bike. While they haven’t hyped it publicly, it’s available now in Medium with…
With SRAM’s XX1 on the horizon, there’s looking to be an increased interest in both 1x single chainring drivetrains and chainguides made for them since…
The WTB Nine Line 29×2.0 is developed with Cannondale, which will get OEM exclusivity for 2013, but it’ll be available aftermarket in January. Weight is…
Carbon-Ti’s new X-Monoring Titanium single chainrings replace the crank’s standard spider and are designed for Specialized carbon cranks, SRAM X0/X9/X7 and Cannondale Hollowgram SL and…
Crank Brothers showed us a bunch of shiny new products at Eurobike. They scrapped their older pumps and developed two completely new lines. The higher…
