Today Salsa is launching their new Flyway gravel bike. It’s replacing the 4th-generation Warbird that’s been around since 2019. We loved that Warbird, but not the moniker. So it’s perhaps timely that the new bike has a more peaceful name: Flyways are the established travel patterns of migratory birds. When cycling in a… read more

This year marks 20 years of Bicycle Quarterly’s ground-breaking real-road research into tire performance. Back in the spring of 2006, we started testing tires on real roads, with a rider on the bike. The results surprised everybody—us included: High pressure doesn’t make supple high-performance tires roll faster. That went counter to what had… read more

When I met Natsuko on a bicycle tour that was organized by mutual friends in Japan, she looked at my bike and equipment. “You don’t carry a musette bag?” she asked, puzzled. Back then, I thought of musette bags as something pro racers used to carry water bottles from the team car to… read more