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State Bicycle Co, the iconic brand that continues to offer value-packed bicycles like the 4130 Steel collab, and the Black Lable Allroad bike, have dropped their first-ever carbon fiber frameset –the Undefeated Carbon Disc Road Frame.

The Undefeated Carbon Disc Road Frame will be added to their comprehensive list of bicycles for all types of riders.

This new frame is constructed using “cutting-edge carbon fiber materials” and targets the serious cyclist and competitive rider. The Undefeated Carbon Disc Road is said to be lightweight, and durable, with an eye toward stiffness and power transfer.

Sold as a frameset, the Undefeated will include the frame, full carbon fork, integrated headset, carbon seatpost, and the front and rear axle. Details were a little thin on the press release & site, so we reached out for some additional specs: while still listed as 30mm in a few spots, the official tire clearance number is 700c x 32mm giving you plenty of options for a modern road bike. The internal cable routing is compatible with mechanical, Di2, and wireless groupsets, and it can be built up with 1x or 2x drivetrains with 52t or 55t maximum chainring sizes respectively. While the frame includes a carbon seatpost, it measures 27.2 if you want to run something else.

The World’s Largest Cycling Tech Blog - all the best cycling news, tech, rumors & reviews on the latest RD/CX/GR/XC/TR/EN/DH bikes, components & gear!

Two recently published patents from Tien Hsin Industries, the parent company of FSA, suggest that a 13-speed Wireless Electronic Groupset could be on the way soon. Will it mean the first FSA KFX mountain bike groupset?

Quickly moving from their debut Custom Road bike to the stock-sized Melee road bike to a full-fledged gravel bike that appears ready for anything. Taking all the best features and standards from the market, and even borrowing a couple clever bits from mountain bikes, the all-new ENVE MOG aims to be the ride of choice for any adventure.

Canyon’s Bosch-powered Precede:ON city ebikes, already popular in Europe, now will help boost American urban mobility, too. With three different specs, either step-though or traditional frame layouts, and full-carbon or aluminum frames… the Precede:ON line-up covers a wide price range for people in the USA looking to replace short car trips with two wheels…

If you’re looking for some top-notch cycling entertainment, lifestyle brand Life Time recently dropped a series of documentaries showcasing the 2022 debut of its off-road racing circuit.

If you want a really, really simple rear suspension, look no further than the Veli, a new mountain bike showcasing Vasttech’s Suspension System. Using two oversized pivots about halfway back on the chainstays, they deliver a short arc of rear wheel travel without the complexity of concentric pivot-and-bottom-bracket designs.They say the design provides optimal chain growth during the part of travel where you’re likely pedaling, then minimizes it deeper in the travel when you’re likely descending rough terrain and don’t want any pedal kickback.

Fans of Transition Bikes will be pleased to see a rebirth of the once discontinued Transition Smuggler. Still a 29″ trail bike, the Smuggler boasts 130/140mm of rear wheel travel paired with a 140mm fork, and it now comes in Carbon or Alloy. Transition say it is their go-to bike for any trail pointed up, down, and all around.

Mostly, mountain bike trails and, in many cases, riding off designated roads (dirt, paved, or otherwise) inside America’s National Parks is not allowed. Mainly, this is because much of it is managed as wilderness. Now, finally, one of our most visited parks has decided that Mountain Bikes are OK, and has opened the door to trail building.

Specialized’s latest published patent documents a “Bicycle Frame with Angled Strut”, wherein a completely new frame tube – an ovalized strut connecting seat & down tubes – appears designed to deliver increased vertical flex compared to a conventional bicycle frame design with a continuous seat tube. This unusual design implies impacts for frame weight, ride comfort, and tire clearance, too, possibly giving us some insights into what a next generation of Specialized’s Spring Classics road racing bike, all-road, or even gravel bike might look like…

USA Cycling has announced the roster for the 2023 Cycling Esports World Championships. The digital races occur on Feb. 18, 2023, on Zwift, with riders from 35 nations competing — 100 from each gender.

In continued celebration of its 50 Year Anniversary, Ritchey Logic has released a limited edition run of the Ritchey Outback draped in a classy Half Moon Blue colorway. Updated to its 2nd generation in 2020, the Outback is first and foremost a gravel bike boasting clearance for high volume tires, but with the addition of mounts for racks, fenders, Anything Cages, as well as mounts for a 3rd water bottle, this modern steel frame is a worthy companion for long-haul bikepacking missions.

A seemingly natural evolution of the updated Portofino R road bike that was just overhauled last December, the new handmade-in-Italy Portofino Gravel is the kind of bike just begging to be ridden down dirt roads between olive groves and over the rolling white gravel roads of Tuscany.

Starting off this Friday still quite at the beginning of the year, it’s hard to overlook a bit of a rollercoaster the Cycling Industry is on at the moment. We’re still seeing plenty of new product announcements and plans to launch a new wave of new road, gravel & mountain bikes. But at the same time we see struggles for brands big and small. Yet, it’s not all doom & gloom, for example, both Eurobike & SRAM are expanding.

Earlier this winter we got a look at WeThePeople's unique disc brake freestyle BMX bike, but now their sister component brand Éclat has officially launched their disc brake Exile Cassette hub for BMX.

There’s just something beautiful about a rally. Take the race component out of a long-distance group ride, and what are you left with? Just a collection of people on bikes enjoying the scenery, the company, and the sheer joy of pedaling.

The Bamboo Bicycle Club combines DIY & natural-material bikes. Its newest project focuses on what’s arguably cycling’s most in-vogue discipline. In short, you’ll get everything you need to build your own bamboo gravel bike when you order Bamboo Bicycle Club’s kit. A build plan, custom jig, bonding glue, bamboo, lugs, videos, and a manual all come in the box.

If you’ve been following the world cross-country mountain bike scene, you’ll notice some team movement this year. Former World Champion Jordan Sarrou announced in November that he is leaving Specialized Factory Racing.

This one covers two patents, one focused primarily on controlling a vehicle’s motion, and the other creating an electronically fully active (predictive, even!) suspension that makes Live Valve look prehistoric.

We reviewed the previous and inaugural version of the Ventum GS1 a few years ago. We found the GS1 to be a great companion to gravel and road. We liked it so much that the bike received our 2019 Editors Choice Award for Best Gravel Bike.

French ceramic bearing maker Cycling Ceramic partnered up with a custom Austrian titanium framebuilder to create this sleek, low-friction Rocket Granite superbike. With what appears to have been an almost unlimited budget Cycling Ceramic & Rocket Bikes set out to create what they think is the ultimate purist road bike.