FIRST Components

Gerard Vroomen (Cervelo, now Open) on gravel bikes and a good deal more. Well worth a listen along with a lot of great comments by savvy listeners.

“Is it the bicycle companies that are making the fastest bikes, or is it the third-party specialists that look at how the big companies are screwing the front ends up and filling those gaps?”

The Show Daily coverage of Taichung Bike Week. Day 1 https://lnkd.in/grdBC-aN and Day 2 https://lnkd.in/gCDbKdbp

“For the first ten years, we were one bad month away from not being able to pay the bills,” said Grant Petersen, the bicycle designer, writer, and founder of Rivendell Bicycle Works. Here's a (very) deep dive into what it took to create and maintain an modern classic iconic bike brand.

A recent broad look at Taiwan's bike component manufacturing sector—where it came from and where it's going, which is full blown "sustainability" of course. (Lots of insight in the comments on the video).

Bike tech that we could well do without? You be the judge.

In this story of a DIY stem, Jamie explains the why and how of his Honours degree project, from design, through manufacturing, to the finished product, explaining what he learned along the way. 

As Taichung Bike Week fast approaches, many brands are innovating. Jetset, a small Changhua-based rim maker specializes in bullet-proof rims, especially for eMTBs. This modification at least doubles the rim strength with minimum weight penalty. It's all in the angles. The engineer knows exactly what they are. But, of course, he's not telling 😄.

Shaving off 108 grams and a reduction in the drag coefficient of 0.2%. Minor differences that Geraint Thomas says make a noticeable difference. The story behind the latest iteration of the Dogma...

The futuristic Spacelander bicycle was a dud in 1960. Today, it’s a marvel of postwar industrial design [allegedly], with one selling for $18,360 at auction.