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WIN A CUSTOM PAINTED HIGHTOWER INSPIRED BY STEVE PEAT

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WE ARE GIVING AWAY A ONE-OF-A-KIND SANTA CRUZ HIGHTOWER! Enter for a chance to win a Peaty inspired, custom painted Santa Cruz Hightower that is ENVE’d out. Custom paint design is still in the works with Peaty himself and will be revealed when the winner is announced. STEVE PEAT • 2009 Downhill World Champion • Triple World Cup Champion • 8 time British National Champion • 17 World Cup wins and 52 World Cup podiums WINNER ANNOUNCED: OCT 31, 2016  No purchase is necessary to win.  To Enter the contest, click here.    Stay up to date, follow us on:...

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Debunking Wheel Stiffness

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Are your wheels stiff enough? Do your manly legs pump out so many kilowatts that you flex them like soggy noodles? Stiffness is like training volume, right? More is always better? I’d like to start this discussion with a very simple question: What IS wheel stiffness? Do you know? If anyone out there can accurately describe it in one paragraph or less, you get a gold star. I don’t even think I could do it, which is why we’re dedicating an entire article to it.  The biggest problem with the wheel stiffness discussion is that the term is thrown around far too much...

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ALL ABOUT ROAD HUBS

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In the universe of bicycles, hubs are the sun and everything revolves around them – literally.  The best rims in the world are worthless unless they are built around a great hub. If the hub ceases to function properly, your ride comes to a halt. For this reason, ENVE only specs Chris King, DT Swiss, and now the ENVE Carbon Road Hub. So, what is it that makes these hubs great? Let’s lay it all out there… First, these hubs reduce the tradeoffs between reliability, strength, weight, stiffness, and efficiency better than any other hubs we’ve tested. RELIABILITY The best...

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Chris King accuses bike industry of ‘profiteering’ on Japanese tour

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Does he have a point? With forty years’ experience in the bike industry, Chris King is someone worth listening to. He’s a man that knows how to make a good quality product and in this video you can see where the bottom brackets, hubs and headsets he produces are made. While this video may not featuring exploding turns or wild whips it’s still worth your attention for the criticism King lays on the industry.     We recommend sitting through the whole thing but to get to the juicy bit skip to about five minutes in. King says: “I’m sure there are some companies that would like the...

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Could Enve's CX be the ultimate carbon tubulars for 'cross racing? | Product News / Reviews

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Cyclocross-specific tire bed shape, ultra-low weight, softer ride, disc-only   High-end carbon tubular wheels for cyclocross racing have historically been little more than little more than repurposed road items (not unlike the sport of cyclocross itself, in fact). The new Enve CX wheels, however, are fully purpose-built for the task with a rim shape designed specifically around high-volume tubulars.  According to Enve, three factors make its new wheelset ideal for cyclocross.     The tire bed on the new Enve CX wheels is perfectly matched to 33mm-wide cyclocross tubulars First, the shape of the tire bed has a larger radius than what would typically...

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