Interesting Sea Otter Finds: NICH Bikes, Aero Road Shoes, and a Spinning Tire Sealant Applicator? Do we need a machine to help evenly distribute tubeless tire sealant? Or just better inner tubes? You’ll find both inside. Written by Jordan Villella April 25, 2025
New Component Roundup: Magura Gustav Pro Brakes, Hope RX2 Brakes, Sustainable Tires, More Exciting torque wrenches, tires made from 100% reusable materials, pink derailleurs, and more highlight this post-Sea Otter roundup. Written by Zach Overholt April 24, 2025
Post Sea Otter Roundup: New Apparel, Eyewear, Protection, and Bags for Bikepacking & Bike-Packing Time to empty out the Sea Otter photos with interesting new gear from B&W, Tailfin, D3O, Smith, Ornot, SDG, and more! Written by Zach Overholt April 23, 2025
RotaLuber 3D Prints Their Way To Better Chain Lubrication + New eBike Backpedal Tool RotaLuber may be the fastest and most efficient new way to lubricate your chain – saving time and chain lube in the process. Written by Zach Overholt April 21, 2025
MRP Shows Off 38mm Suspension Fork Prototype, Lift & Ramp Control V2, More An MRP 38mm suspension fork? It could be here soon, plus some new drop-in suspension tuning goods to improve the forks you already have. Written by Zach Overholt April 21, 2025
Stromm Raktt: The Fastest Road Bike at Sea Otter Classic? The Stromm Raktt might be the fastest bike on the market, it saves you 10 watts at 40kph and—hold onto your aero socks—30 watts at… Written by Jordan Villella April 18, 2025
Kuat Piston Ion E-Bike Rack Increases Weight Capacity For Heavy Bikes, Off-Road & RV Use If you’re looking for a way to carry around heavy e-bikes, or go off roading with normal mountain bikes, Kuat has a new option in… Written by Zach Overholt April 18, 2025
Sea Otter Classic: Ron’s Rad Rando Roundup and a Best of Show Surprise! Sea Otter has a little bit of everything, kinda like Ron’s roundup. Written by Ron Frazelle April 18, 2025
Abbey Gets Heavy Duty with Shop Whip-It & Crombie Tool, Reinforced Spoke Wrench Always the crown jewel of the traveling mechanic’s toolbox, Abbey introduced some tools specifically for the stationary mechanic – and more. Written by Zach Overholt April 16, 2025
Gary Fisher’s Morelle eBike Fully Charges in 15 Minutes Using AI? The Morelle eBike claims to be fully rechargable in just 15 minutes! Written by Ron Frazelle April 14, 2025
Spotted: Prototype Ventum GS1 Gravel Race Bike Gravel speed with bigger tires. Ventum is gearing up for race season. Written by Jordan Villella April 12, 2025
The Hudski Dualist is a Do it all ATB With Personality Hudski Bikes’ new Dualist is “a Jack of all trades, and a master of most” Written by Ron Frazelle April 12, 2025
Praxis Works Uses Hinged Gears to Create Unique Prototype HiT Transmission Gears that fold and electronic shifting under full power highlight the HiT gearbox prototype from Praxis. Written by Zach Overholt April 12, 2025
Prototype Cane Creek MTB Inverted Suspension Fork Joins the Party at Sea Otter Cane Creek already has one inverted fork. Are they about to launch another? Written by Zach Overholt April 12, 2025
Aventon Launches New Mid-Drive Aventure M and Gives a Full-Suspension eMTB Sneak Peek Aventon launches new Aventure 3 and canter-drive Aventon M with auto-shift, plus teases full-suspension rig Written by Ron Frazelle April 11, 2025
Roundup: Sea Otter 2025 Day One Jordan’s Favorites Sea Otter day one is in the books – here’s a few things that caught Jordan’s eye. Written by Jordan Villella April 11, 2025
Odyssey Optis Pneumatic Tubeless Tire Insert Divides Tire into Two Tunable Air Chambers Is this the perfect tubeless tire liner? Odyssey thinks so, and it’s been 10 years in the making. Written by Zach Overholt April 11, 2025
Cadex unveils 147g Amp 3D saddle with Gyroid padding Cadex gets into the 3D printed saddle game with their new Amp 3D with a Gyroid structure. Written by Bennett Shane April 10, 2025
Robert Axle Project Introduces the Axle Plug: An 8g Tubeless Plugger Tool for RAP & Chris King Axles Put that wasted space inside your axle to use with the new tubeless tire plugger from Robert Axle Project. Written by Zach Overholt April 10, 2025
The Sierra Trailblazer: Win A One-of-a-kind Bike Supporting Trails & Recovery in the Lost Sierra Paul Component once again has put together an amazing build for Sierra Nevada to give away! Written by Zach Overholt April 09, 2025
OneUp V2 Handlebar Gets More Compliant, Adds Dedicated 760mm Size OneUp’s carbon handlebar has gotten even more compliant, especially if you’re running a bar cut down to 760mm. Written by Zach Overholt April 09, 2025
6D Alterra Light Weight Full Face Helmet Brings ODS Tech to Enduro Lightweight, full-face enduro protection defines the newest helmet from 6D. Written by Zach Overholt April 09, 2025
It’s a Revel-ution! Revel Expands Lineup with ReRun eMTB, Ritual Enduro bike, New Ranger colors The brand has been teasing an all new Revel, and they’ve delivered. Written by Steve Fisher April 08, 2025
Life Time Grand Prix Docuseries is Cycling’s ‘Drive to Survive’ Life Time just dropped a series of documentaries chronicling the 2022 debut of its off-road racing circuit. Written by Andrew McLemore February 21, 2023
