We’ve had a busy year over here at The Radavist. From the return to being 100% independent, launching our Group Ride subscription service, our Rad Bazaar marketplace, and adjusting to being a small business owner again, my free time has been limited. Yet, I can thank a few products for making my job and life easier this year, along with the albums that became the backdrop for my rides, so let’s check out my Favorite Products of 2023!
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Radar Roundup: Sour Bad Granny Limited Run, Gorewear Winter, RiG’d UltraTable, Cane Creek Coil/Air Tigon Shock, Rapha Explore Expanded, Wolf Tooth Morse Cargo Cages Reup, Master Bike Builder Show Interviews, and Downtube Shifters in 2023?!
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Radar Roundup: Tourist Santa Fe Grand Opening Party Tonight!, Rivendell Platypus, Lauf Úthald Road Bike, eThirteen Vario Dropper Colors, Cane Creek Chroma Studio, Fox Racing Crossframe Pro Helmet, Win the Redshift Dream Bike 2023, and TARKA In Search of Surf
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Radar Roundup: Cane Creek Helm Galaxy, Nitto x Crust Juan Martin Bar, New Nissen Cable Colors, OneUp Grips, Mason Cycles Bokeh V3, and SQlab Gloves
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Radar Roundup: Chris King Brings Back 3D Violet, Wilde Rambler SL, Helm Works Series, Crust x Casa Varsity Jackets, Calling In Sick 9 Pre-Order, GDMBR, and THE WHEELIE
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By Hand is the Way: Cane Creek Components Factory Visit
Just south of Asheville, NC, in the town of Fletcher, is the Cane Creek Cycling Components headquarters. Backed up to the Blue Ridge Mountains, it’s here that they assemble all of their suspension forks, shocks, and brakes by hand and continue to carry the torch of design innovation lit by their predecessor, Dia-Compe USA. Photographer Steve West is back from a factory tour and shares about the Cane Creek process below.
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Spring Ahead: Why Cane Creek’s New Smaller IL Shocks Are a Big Deal
About a month ago, we were fixin’ to publish a long-term review of the Coil IL shock Travis Engel has been running, problem-free, since 2021. But that model is six years old, and we got a whiff of something new on the horizon. And today, we finally get to look and whiff, because Cane Creek just dropped news of the updated Coil IL and Air IL. We’ll break down what’s new, what’s not, and why it matters.
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Radar Roundup: Matador Cane Creek eeBrakes, Rapha Explore, Mr. Wooden Pre-Order, Steady Bar Bag, Daypacking on Bikes, and Magic Feeling
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Radar Roundup: Bastion Cycles ArchAngel, Cane Creek Helm Chameleon, Ocean and San New Colors, Backyard Bike Camping, and Home is Where The Trails Take You
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Soften the Ride: A Review of the Mosaic x TPC GT-2 45 with Cane Creek eeSilk Components
When the summer months roll through Santa Fe, my drop bar bikes tend to get hung on the wall in favor of my flat bar mountain and touring bikes. The main reason is that our “gravel” in town is exposed, hot, and windy. Rather than battle the elements on gravel roads, we escape from town into tree cover and savor our luscious singletrack.
So when we released The Radavist edition Mosaic bikes, both in the GT-2X and GT-2 45 models, I had my friends at The Pro’s Closet hold onto a size 58cm GT-2 45 mechanical bike for me to ride this winter. In the interim, I did my best to “soften the ride” by incorporating Cane Creek‘s popular eeSilk components.
Well, I’ve spent some time riding the bike, both in Santa Fe and down in Southern Arizona, and am ready to spew my thoughts in a fully-detailed review, so let’s get to it!
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Radar Roundup: Wolf Tooth Resolve Dropper Post, Revel Love Your Brain, Sunburst Helm MKii, Fairlight Faran 2.0 Damson, High Viz Gramm Bag, Repro Rights Ride ATX, Gravel Adventure Colorado, Tunitas, and Gravel and Loam Ep 6
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Radar Roundup: Ortlieb Bikepacking Limited Edition Colors, What It Takes to Race the Colorado Trail, Cane Creek el Platino 2 Brakes, MAAP Alt Road, and In Memory of Sule Kangangi
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Josh Reviews His Mash-Up Sklar Sweet Spot: The Sweet Jammer
The Sweet Spot from Bozeman, MT-based Sklar Bikes is a steel hardtail mountain bike designed to be a venerable quiver-killer. Built around 150mm of front suspension, with clearance for up to 29 x 2.8 tires, its geometry embraces builder Adam Sklar’s mantra of “fast is fun, but fun is fun-er.” Sweet Spots were Adam’s first foray into offering a small batch frame design and sizing, which he hopes will make his bikes more accessible and faster to produce.
I picked up a Sweet Spot of my own earlier this spring after many years of searching for the perfect hardtail. Due to a few requests I had to make it even sweeter, it turned into a custom project that retained the established Sweet Spot geometry and material selection. Below, let’s take a closer look at my build in addition to a brief interview with Adam about these bikes and his design/build process!
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Radar Roundup: eeSilk Stem, Laufey Hardtail, Silver Cranks, Elephant Cargo Fork, and Art of the Grind
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The 2021 Pisgah Project Bike Raffle Supports The Pisgah Conservancy
In 2021, parts and bikes are hard to come by and that’s why fundraising and conservation projects like this are all the more relevant these days. A handful of bike companies, Cane Creek Cycling Components, Industry Nine, Thomson Bike Products, Continental Tires, fizik, and Crank Brothers, came together to put on a fundraiser for The Pisgah Conservancy. Read on below for how you can win the 2021 Pisgah Project Bike Raffle…
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Cane Creek’s New eeSilk+ Offers 35mm of Damping
This morning Cane Creek announced its new, longer travel eeSilk+ suspension seat posts. Available in carbon or allow, these posts make great enhancements to gravel or mixed surface bikes by reducing the chatter transmitted from the surface to the rider and can be tuned to rider weight through a simple elastomer change. #5 elastomer comes pre-installed, other weight elastomers sold separately. They come in 27.2 and 31.6 mm options, fitting most gravel or mixed surface bikes and carry a max rider weight of 250lbs.
See all the details at Cane Creek.
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eeBrakes Announce El Tornado Limited Edition Colorway
Look, I know rim brakes aren’t exactly in vogue anymore but if you happen to have a rim brake road bike and are looking to upgrade your brakes, then the eeBrakes are a prime candidate. The latest limited edition eeBrakes were just announced today in El Tornado blue and black. These brakes are available in direct mount and standard mount, come with carbon and standard brake pads and are shipping in July. See all the details at Cane Creek.
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Cane Creek: HELMyeah IMBA Sweepstakes
Want to win a special edition HELM MKII Air 29 fork from Cane Creek and help out International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) in one fell swoop? Check out all the details below, straight from Cane Creek…