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.
PRESS RELEASE: Sea Otter Classic and Truvativ are pleased to announce a comprehensive makeover for Sea Otter’s current downhill course. Bike park builders Momentum Trail…
In addition to the flax-based Vestige, Schwinn had some retro-modern urban bikes (and city and kids bikes) on display at Urban PressCamp. The Cutter is…
Cateye’s new INOU GPS Camera tracks your location throughout your ride and records still images and video the whole way, either automatically at preset 1,…
Geekhouse Bikes showed their street cred by displaying builds for legitimate urban riding folks like John Prolly and Brad over at Urban Velo Magazine. In…
Following up last year’s award winning Sunflower Mixte, Reynold Yip of Yipsan bicycles built up a gentleman’s bike he called the Frederick Rambler. At first…
Profile Racing showed off their new Elite MTB hubs with six pawls for an astounding 204 points of engagement, ensuring virtually instantaneous forward motion when…
John Caletti builts some pretty straightforward bikes, and their comparative simplicity is what makes them beautiful to look at. While last year’s bikes had some…
Independent Fabrications was showing off their new Cross Jester, above, a full carbon cyclocross bike. Tube and log construction allows for full custom, and all…
Black Cat Cycles had three new bicycles on display next to their standard 26″ mountain bike, which was decked out with some 2012-ish Truvativ components…
This year, NAHBS allowed designers to join the builders as exhibitors, and one of the most exorbitant examples was Krencker’s custom built, luxury Cyfac road…
Cielo, Chris King’s cycling brand, introduced two new performance oriented versions of existing bikes: The Cyclocross Racer and two variations of the Sportif road bike.…
Mounted up on those new Ritchey P-29er mountain bikes were these almost-in-production Syncros FLavor 29er tires. Word is their first shipment of production samples lands…
Signal Cycles debuted their first ever “production” bike, the Saltzman, which brings their handmade craftsmanship down to a more affordable level by letting them produce…
L.H. Thomson showed off this prototype quick release seat clamp that borrows a ratcheting mechanism similar to DT Swiss’ RWS skewers. It’ll simply (and very…
