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Float Up Climbs with ENVE’s New Carbon Road Hubs and Clincher Rims | NEW Products

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Link to Original Article: Bicycling.com by Matt Phillips New carbon hubs and a new 25mm-deep tubeless ready carbon rim make for a sleek, light, and very expensive wheelset ENVE molds their one-piece hub shells in Ogden, Utah. The driver is from DT-Swiss and the bearings come from Ceramic Speed. If you’ve looked at your road bike recently and thought, “I need more carbon, I want tubeless, and I like to buy US-made stuff,” you should start wearing a tin-foil hat, because ENVE read your mind. The company has a new hubset and rim that tick all your boxes. The hubs have a...

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Wahoo KICKR SNAP | NEW Products

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Introducing the new Kickr SNAP!  KICKR SNAP BIKE TRAINER OVERVIEW The Wahoo KICKR SNAP is the KICKR for those who don't need as much kick. It shares the great features of the KICKR including power you can feel, app controlled resistance, and an open platform - all in a convenient wheel-on design. The SNAP is perfect for training for a long group ride or knocking out a century. It takes about 1 week to ship from the warehouse to our location.  DUAL BAND TECHNOLOGY Both ANT+ and BLE capabilities allow it to connect to both smartphones and GPS devices simultaneous...

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ISM FOR 2016 – A PRIMER | Product News / Reviews

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Link to Original Article: AeroGeeks.com by Mike. Last year ISM began the transition from using product names for their saddles to using an alphanumeric system. With their 2016 line, all saddles now reflect the new naming convention. The ISM Naming Convention Cheat Sheet The first part of the new naming conventions is how ISM has broken their line into multiple categories. The categories are: Performance Narrow Performance Long Performance Short Performance Recreation Performance Mountain Comfort Fitness Comfort City (Note that the Short, Recreation, and MTB are all essentially one big family with the same base shape.  Recreation has extra padding, and MTB has a...

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Eurobike15: Praxis Works & Turn Cranks | Product News / Reviews

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 Link to Original Article: BikeRumour.com by Cory Benson Big news from Praxis at Eurobike were several all new Turn cranksets, and then this single ring road setup. Built off of the popular and successful hollow forged Zayante crankset, this crank is essentially a new spider developed as a result of rider feedback from those switching to single ring setups for time trials and flat road riding. This new Zayante Sprint crankset has a proprietary 4-bolt 160mm BCD that Praxis developed to maximize chainring stiffness with 48-52T rings. Developed with track cranks in mind, the new crankset combines their M30 spindle and the hollow forged...

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ISM Saddles | Product News / Reviews

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ISM saddles are wide by design. The width isn't a flaw or an oversight but instead the width is the primary design component that provides the safety and comfort of all the ISM saddles. Our studies of the human hip confirmed the sit bones are the starting point for anyone sitting on any surface. When a human sits on a chair, a couch, the ground or any other object the first section of the human skeleton that makes contact with the sitting surface are the isichial tuberosities (sit bones). As the human relax's and gravity enters the equation the load is spread out across the muscles of...

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