I’m an avowed modernist. I’ve liked both new and better ever since I was a kid. The march of progress appeals to me like the spring sun. How can you not like stuff that works better? ...
Tag Archives: Dura-Ace
Staying on the Lookout
For those of you who are devoted RKP readers, you may have noticed a drop in the number of reviews of road bikes and an increase in reviews of adventure and mountain bikes. I’ve been pretty ...
The Paceline Podcast #46
Santa has come early to Padraig’s chimney and he has left behind the new Dura-Ace. We go over the bright and shiny parts. We also take a look at the vast array of gruppos making a run for ...
Interbike 2016, Part III
I got to ride two different bikes today with the new Dura-Ace R9100. The first bike was the Fuji SL disc. This is a revision of the SL, which was introduced last year. The SL disc adds 75 grams ...
Boarding House Reach
When Mark DiNucci and I were discussing the frame he was going to build for me, I told him I would ask questions and all he had to do was answer them. I trust him. One of the questions I asked ...
The Paceline Podcast #25
Show #25 opens on a high note, and we mean that literally. A Paceline host takes us to the top of the “Going to the Sun Road” in Glacier National Park to get the show going. Of ...
New Dura-Ace: the Geek Goes Squee
This fall Shimano will introduce a new iteration of Dura-Ace, catalogued broadly as 9100. We first heard rumblings of the new group a month or so ago when there was a flap over some early ...
Excellence for the Masses: Di2 Comes to Deore XT
Sea Otter hasn’t even started and arguably the biggest news of week will be Shimano’s announcement that Di2 performance will trickling its way to the company’s Deore XT group. That Deore XT ...
The Paceline Podcast #8
Stage eight of the Paceline starts in Malibu with Padraig throwing down attacks in a two-day Gran Fondo. Lance Armstrong speaks to students at the University of Colorado. We play back some of ...
The Market Leader
Over the last three years, I’ve gotten solid time on a number of different groups. From mechanical groups to electronic ones, and from high end to a few rides on entry-level components, ...