Alvin Holbrook

1 week ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Alvin Holbrook

The Traka may have started in just 2021, but it has quickly become one of the go-to gravel races in the world, and Europe’s answer to Unbound Gravel here in the US. The Traka is defined by its myriad route levels; there’s the Traka Adventure that features 560 km (348 miles), the Traka 360 (224 miles), the fiercely competitive Traka 200 (124 miles), as well as the Traka 100 (62 miles). Unlike most other US-based races, however, the Traka is a several-day affair.

1 week ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Alvin Holbrook

This week’s episode of the Velo Podcast sees Alvin, Josh, and Levy step into a parallel timeline where they have the power to create the bike of their dreams without those pesky engineering limits we have to put up with here. Impossibly good tire clearance, ultra-light aero everything, more frame storage than a steamer trunk, and gravel bike geometry that’s not trying to kill you is all too much to ask for in the real world, but it’s entirely possible in today’s podcast.

2 weeks ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Alvin Holbrook

E-bikes are a phenomenal way to expand your riding horizons. Repairing the bikes, however, is a completely different story. One issue is the sheer weight that prevents the bikes from being put in a repair stand, particularly if you’re a home mechanic. The answer, according to Feedback Sports? Make it an electric lift. There’s plenty more this week, of course. Hunt revised its Aerodynamicist wheelset to make it dramatically lighter.

2 weeks ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Alvin Holbrook

Hunt Bike Wheels made its name by offering performance-focused wheelsets that offered many of the benefits of the big wheel brands, but at a dramatically lower price point. One could argue that that reputation comes on the back of the Hunt Aerodynamicist road wheel, a lineup of carbon wheels that seemed to punch above their modest price point. And now?

2 weeks ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Alvin Holbrook

I’ve been riding the Coros Dura bike computer almost exclusively for the last six months, riding it just about anywhere I could think of: indoors, outdoors, on dirt, on road, and even in other countries. And in these last six months and over 300 hours of riding, I’ve charged it a total of three times. The Coros Dura launch wasn’t perfect. Besides battery life falling far behind its claims, the Dura felt underbaked. But after six months of riding with it, has it changed?