Bikerumor

2 days ago | bikerumor.com | Jordan Villella

As the thrilling Giro comes to an end, we’re able to grab a bit of kit from EF Pro Cycling’s private stash. Rapha is putting the team-only EF Pro Cycling GORE-TEX Lightweight Rain Jacket up for sale. It’s the same jacket you might have seen the team wearing at the start of stage 16 in Piazzola sul Brenta. Designed in partnership with EF Education–EasyPost and powered by Durably waterproof Black Diamond certified ePE fabric by GORE-TEX, this isn’t your typical rain cape.

2 days ago | bikerumor.com | Jordan Villella

Giant just pulled the covers off its all-new Rivet MIPS, a fully redesigned aero helmet built for athletes chasing podiums in time trials and triathlons. After extensive wind tunnel testing and pro-level validation, the new lid boasts a refined shape, updated safety features, and a serious upgrade in aerodynamic efficiency.

4 days 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.

4 days 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.

4 days 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.