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Gear Matthew Vandivort 7/29/26 Gear Matthew Vandivort 7/29/26

ACME Bicycle Co & Factor Monza Vexx: Race-Ready Pedigree Meets Real-World Practicality

New bike day is always special when ACME Bicycle Co is involved

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Gear Lisa Vandivort 11/2/22 Gear Lisa Vandivort 11/2/22

Well Ridden and Well Loved: A Stanridge CX

A look at a handbuilt CX machine by Stanridge

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Gear John Buenaventura 1/12/21 Gear John Buenaventura 1/12/21

Cinelli Vigorelli RHC: An ultra-rare paint job on a track mainstay

We’re going back to the velodrome with an ultra rare paint scheme: the Cinelli Vigorelli in RHC Brooklyn Navy Yard colors

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Gear, MTB Lisa Vandivort 9/30/20 Gear, MTB Lisa Vandivort 9/30/20

A Very Hard to Miss Specialized Epic S-Works

Specialized recently revamped their XCO line-up and we’re fortunate to take a look at a very color S-Works Epic

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Gear Lisa Vandivort 7/1/20 Gear Lisa Vandivort 7/1/20

A handbuilt and custom painted Coarse crit machine

A completely one off, hand built and hand painted crit machine that looks good and rides fast.

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Gear Scott Rettino 5/28/20 Gear Scott Rettino 5/28/20

Nick's perfetto Pegoretti

In the latest entry in our series on unique bikes, Scott takes a look at Nick’s Pegoretti Duende.

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Gear, Essays Barb Blakley Millott 4/23/20 Gear, Essays Barb Blakley Millott 4/23/20

To all the bikes we've loved before

The squad looks back at all of the bikes we have ridden and loved over the years

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Gear, Cyclocross Clay Jones 10/3/19 Gear, Cyclocross Clay Jones 10/3/19

A Completely Unique, One Of a Kind Bike: Hunter's Own CX

We have been fortunate to feature a lot of unique bikes on the Journal, but this is the first truly one-off build that we have ever featured: Hunters own CX.

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Gear Sebastian Vidal 4/14/19 Gear Sebastian Vidal 4/14/19

Kevin’s Concorde Mistral

A unique ride for one of the leaders of the NYC cycling scene

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Gear Clay Jones 3/19/19 Gear Clay Jones 3/19/19

Clay's Do-It-All Moots Routt

Our first Moots bike reveal of 2019 is Clay’s floor-model Routt, sourced from ACME.

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Gear Matthew Vandivort 1/28/19 Gear Matthew Vandivort 1/28/19

The Best Bikes: A Pegoretti Dream Machine

The Best Bikes (TBB) is wandering to the other side of the pond for a very special Italian ride from Dario Pegoretti

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Gear Daghan Perker 1/2/19 Gear Daghan Perker 1/2/19

The Best Bikes: A Stinner that can do it all

Our ongoing series on some of our favorite bikes from the New York City (and beyond) peloton continues with Daghan’s stunning Stinner

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Gear, Cyclocross Clay Jones 12/26/18 Gear, Cyclocross Clay Jones 12/26/18

Ryan's Von Hof ACX

I didn’t quite realize it at first, but Ryan’s Von Hof is a showcase for Made-in-the-USA stuff. Gorgeous.

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Essays, Gear, Features, Riding Alvaro Soltero 12/17/18 Essays, Gear, Features, Riding Alvaro Soltero 12/17/18

When a Bike is More than a Bike

In a world full of slick custom paint jobs, fancy carbon bits, and vague performance related promises, sometimes the best bikes lack all of those things.

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Gear Matthew Vandivort 12/13/18 Gear Matthew Vandivort 12/13/18

Keith Haring inspired Coarse Monster CX

During the winter months we’re taking a look at some of our favorite one-off bikes in a new series we’re calling the best bikes (TBB)

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In a post we think you should read, @shaneferro writes about cyclocross’ challenges with participation, spending 5 hours in a car and paying $50 in tolls, all to face the risk of a
"Sly Fox in particular is known to lean into the silly with its gargantuan run up, dotted with people in costume trying to feed you beer, pickles and doughnuts."

As @hlcamhi wrote in her Tuesday race report, @slyfoxcx was a fun festival at
In a year where local CX races have felt harder to come by, heading down to @slyfoxbeer for a proper brewery race was exactly what we needed on the November calendar.

In fact, it was such a grand day out that we're going with a full week of @slyfoxc
"Sometimes the best thing you can do on a bike is slow down."

In a sport that spends so much time fixated on training and race results, volunteering with the PS 110 Bike Bus in Greenpoint has given @tobedetermined.cc's Phil Shamet a very d
AN ODE TO ONE OF THE BEST CX WEEKENDS AROUND: our recap of @nohocx 2026 is now live over on www.TBD.bike.

On a weekend that did not go entirely to plan for the squad, the course side hangs reinforced everything that makes Noho CX so special, and why
After 10,000+ words and dozens of exhibits across six Journal entries, the final installment of our State of NYC Road Racing series is live on the site.

Some of the numbers are sobering, especially these:
--The local race calendar has been cut in ha
Want more local bike races? It’s time to build them. 🚲💥

We’ve talked a lot on the Journal about the challenges facing our local racing scene, but the health of grassroots cycling ultimately depends on our community stepping up to organ
Part 2 of our deep dive into the State of NYC Road Racing is now live on the Journal.

In Part 1, we looked at the event-level numbers—how a shrinking calendar and the end of weekday racing cut total NYC race starts in half. Today, we shift our
This week we’re sharing an unprecedented dive into the numbers underlying NYC Road Racing, detailing everything from how the NYC race calendar has been cut in half to how new racers enter and exit the scene. 

This morning we published an INTRO
We took a break from cyclocross racing and went to Minnewaska. We were a little early for peak🍁but there’s still time! Pics and text on our blog.
“People just don't realize everything it takes to keep these events going. I know they’re appreciative, but at the same time if we can get more people involved, then things can get so much better from here..”

Part 2 of our Race Dir
165 events. 240+ race days a year. 1:30 AM wake-up calls to set up Prospect Park before the sun comes up. And at least 12–13 rider registrations needed just to pay for the Porta Johns. These are just some of the numbers from our latest intervie

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