The FMB Story: Demystifying Tubular Black Magic FMB is a French producer of handmade tubular tyres, named after it’s founder François Marie. Like tubular tyres themselves, FMB’s origins and continued success is the stuff of lore, whisperings shrouded in mystery that pass through the peloton like ghosts. Little is certain, except for that the ‘B’ …
Broad Street Cycles BSCCXKIT Images: Nicholas Kupiak (IG: @ridegradient) Days are getting shorter, the nights cooler. As the slow creep of darkness encroaches further, and daylight succumbs to the night, Cyclocross is once again a hot topic around the food court. Rather than mourn summers passing, we’re here to ring in the new season. …
Bike Check: Focus Raven EVO 29 Focus continues to impress with their new mountain bike line-up. While we’ve always loved their cross and road bikes, the German company has been working hard to keep current with their mountain bike line up. The Raven is their race oriented hardtail, and it shows. It’s clearly designed to …
Bike Check: Pinarello Vuelta Founded by Giovanni Pinarello in 1952, Pinarello isn’t a brand that needs much introduction. With that in mind, we’ll do what we can to keep this brief and get right to the bike. This Pinarello Vuelta is currently in Broad Street Cycles on consignment, though maybe not for long, so we …
The Bike: Felt has spent the last several years consistently working through and modernizing their mountain bike line. Last year we rode their their more XC oriented Edict and Nine bikes. We were really happy with both those bikes, so this year we thought we’d step it up a bit and dig into their revamped …