The Autumn Bicycle Quarterly is coming off the press this week. And in case you wondered based on the photo above: We aren’t going to publish the first bike magazine with a cover that doesn’t show a cyclist at all! Here’s the full cover: This is one of my favorite covers of all time…. read more

The European Tire and Rim Technical Organization (ETRTO) usually works behind the scenes. If you look at the the sidewalls of a car tire, you see a bunch of numbers like P185/70R14. Those are the ETRTO specs of the tire, and they guarantee that you can buy a tire almost anywhere in the… read more

Tire manufacture is a bit of a black art. Rubber for the tread is mixed and rolled out in huge sheets like making pies in a giant bakery. The casing fabric is impregnated with a different kind of rubber. Then everything gets assembled by hand, together with puncture-proof layers (on our Endurance and… read more