Zach Overholt

2 weeks ago | bikerumor.com | Zach Overholt

Industry Nine just dropped some big news — they’ve officially acquired We Are One Composites. Yep, the Canadian composite masters out of Kamloops, BC are now part of the I9 family. This partnership was already brewing, with I9 offering complete wheelsets using We Are One’s composite rims for a while now, laced to their own Hydra and 1/1 hubs. This acquisition solidifies what felt like a natural pairing.

3 weeks ago | bikerumor.com | Zach Overholt

At the start of this year, I was still not entirely convinced that electronic wireless mountain bike groups were something that I really wanted, or needed on my bikes. In my experience, they tend to be heavier, more expensive, less robust, harder to repair, easier to scuttle a ride by forgetting a battery, and seemingly slower to shift – all for the sake of getting rid of cables, which seem to function perfectly fine as long as you do a little maintenance every once in a while.

3 weeks ago | bikerumor.com | Zach Overholt

Shimano’s wireless shifting mountain bike group is finally here, and there’s a ton to absorb. To keep our XTR Di2 tech story from crashing your browser, we’ve created a second post here to go over the important stuff – you know, prices and actual weights. Shimano has released the claimed weights of many of the new XTR parts, but to see how those claimed weights stack up, we’ve pulled what we can off our test bike, which was fitted with the M9220 enduro group with a 10-51t cassette.

3 weeks ago | bikerumor.com | Zach Overholt

It’s finally time. Time for an all-new XTR drivetrain from Shimano. We’ve been waiting for years. Not just for the next generation of XTR, but for a generation that had to reintroduce Di2 shifting to the world of mountain biking. While Shimano has recently offered electronic shifting for eMTBs, regular mountain bikes have been left out for years– while SRAM has been pumping out AXS wireless shifting groups, including the newer Transmissions.

1 month ago | bikerumor.com | Zach Overholt

When I think of Pivot Bikes, high-end mountain bikes are the first things that come to mind. The Arizona-based brand has molded itself into one of the leading players in premium mountain bikes. Yet, they’re no stranger to skinnier tires with a cyclocross/gravel bike that dates back almost ten years now. That bike is the Pivot Vault, and it just recently got another major update.