New from the former CT folks: https://escapecollective.cc
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I’m glad they got something up and running, I have been keeping an eye on their temporary substack (which was very unclearly named).
But, holy shit, why on earth would you hit a potential subscriber with a huge adblock nag screen when they go to your site to give you money?
I’m going to wait and see if their content is worth paying for, and to see what kind of payment platform they choose to use. I mean, whatever, they have my email address, they can entice me as they choose.
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Good work @ProCracknfailBro on bringing the threaded BB back to the SuperSix and getting rid of the Ai dished wheels 
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It seems like a technical limitation to me and so I did disable mine to join, but yeah, it could be improved for sure.
I subscribed because I want their business model to work (i.e. pay for content rather than see ads for content). Hopefully it gets off the ground. There was some text about getting refunds if they don’t get enough members, but who knows.
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cannondale continues the hotness. great work.
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sans serif typeface logo really starting to work for me with current wacky bike frame shapes.
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the pricing on the lower-tier models seems… less nuts than it could have been?
$5500 for Ultegra Di2, deep carbon wheels, and the TAF teal+pink paint
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I mean at this point cheap road bikes are called gravel bikes, so $5-6k for a “lower tier” road bike seems comparatively reasonable.
with new road bikes I’m always torn between appreciating the complexity of the finished product and the engineering that went into it while being left totally cold by the end result.
I like being able to service and adjust my own bikes, and I’m not chasing marginal gains in a 1 hour solo TT, so most of what’s new with road bikes in the last decade isn’t that relevant to me.
What I want is basically a fusion of a 1999 Giant TCR and a CAAD3 but with modern wheels and tires, which is I guess basically what Gaulzetti was hawking ten years ago.
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Bafflingly the $15k top-end version doesn’t have a power meter. Of course it’d probably have to be a Dura-Ace power meter and they’re not worth having, so maybe it’s a wash?
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Can you believe we’re at $5k for a mid tier ots bike
Wow
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inflation
truth be told, hasn’t that been normal for at least a decade? I remember old bike snob nyc yelling about expensive road bikes in a completely past age.
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atmo i think full carbon everything with di2 ultegra is a bit past “mid tier”
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And yet everyone says the new low tier is comparable to the old high tier.
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That’s an expensive paint job
Going back a couple posts: my best friend stayed with Shiggy as a Warm Showers host and she said I should follow him on IG. Apparently he was a designer and/or welder or something at Bike Friday back in the day and has all these wild prototypes including one which, like a decade down the line, turned into the Burro. Seems like one of the true kooks of cycling, I love seeing all the wacky shit he makes.
And yea I don’t really have any true problems with the Soma or Mitchell’s review but I also do not understand why it was needed in 2023. Is this the content r/xbiking craves?
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Is Shiggy also the guy that was designing a bunch of fat bike tires for Vee Rubber back in the day too?
I think he also designed some early 29er tires for on-one.co.uk and was influential on a bunch of Dirt Drops getting made in that period
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Ugh
Fuck Tesla, but also what is a “lumen for dollar” approach? Article uses it multiple times with no explanation.
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