Gear Break: KASK Elemento helmet, Selle Italia “White Vary”: Flite Enhance Package Carbonio Superflow saddle now out there in white, meet the Vamoots 33: Pure pace – Zero compromise, ORSO handcrafted Italian efficiency shoe, Michael Blann: The mountains are calling, once more – There’s a brand new guide within the works and MyWhoosh pronounces the return of the $1 Million MyWhoosh Championships 2025.

KASK Elemento Helmet – $400

KASK sez:  Within the quest for final efficiency, it’s best to anticipate extra from a helmet than “simply” superior aerodynamics and lean weight. The Elemento contains a revolutionary, new design with superior applied sciences to ship the perfect security and thermal consolation it doesn’t matter what you journey: highway, cross-country, cyclocross, or gravel (or all 4). Designed in collaboration with the INEOS Grenadiers Biking Group, the Elemento is geared toward skilled and semi-professional athletes.

The KASK Elemento is available in six colours: White, Pink, Black, Silver, Oxford Blue, and Beetle Inexperienced. PEZ acquired the Silver.

Kask specs 300 grams, however doesn’t say for what dimension

Chuck Peña PEZ sez:  When aero helmets first got here on the scene, they’d no or only a few vents. They had been constructed for pace, not cooling/air flow. Now, aero helmets are extra vented  and the variations are extra blurred. For instance, if KASK’s aero highway helmet — the Nirvana (reviewed by Alastair right here) — is an aero helmet with air flow (it has 5 entrance vents and three rear vents), then the KASK Elemento is extra a ventilated helmet (8 entrance vents and 6 rear) vents with an aero-ish form. Apparently, KASK charges each a 5 out 5 for each aerodynamics and air flow.

8 vents up entrance to push air in

6 vents in again to drag air out

Deep channeling contained in the helmet to drag air via from entrance to again

KASK claims it’s Fluid Carbon 12 composite technopolymer absorbs extra power from an affect than conventional supplies and distributes the power generated extra evenly throughout the complete helmet. I’ve no approach to measure or validate this and positively hope I don’t need to expertise for myself.

One factor that’s noticeably completely different from many different bicycle helmets is the KASK Elemento’s inside. As an alternative of conventional padding, KASK makes use of its proprietary 3D printed padding: Multipod. Based on KASK, it permits the helmet to higher face up to the power generated by linear and rotational impacts as a result of it withstands the power from impacts the identical whatever the route through which the power is utilized. Once more, one thing I can’t confirm and hope I don’t need to expertise for myself. That stated, increasingly helmets are incorporating know-how to guard in opposition to rotational affect and that’s a plus in my guide.

The entrance padding is conventional foam

What appears to be like like honeycomb is KASK’s 3D printed Multipod padding (inexperienced arrows are foam padding)

Does Fluid Carbon 12 and Multipod make the KASK Elemento safer than different helmets? I can’t say definitively and it’s essential to level out that each one bicycle helmets have to satisfy relevant security requirements. For the US, which means the US Shopper Product Security Fee (CPSC) 1203 requirements. And it’s price noting that the KASK Elemento is rated as a 5-star helmet by the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab whose affect checks consider a helmet’s capability to cut back linear acceleration and rotational velocity of the pinnacle ensuing from a spread of head impacts a bike owner would possibly expertise. Helmets with extra stars present a discount in concussion threat for these impacts in comparison with helmets with much less stars. It’s your head so that you’ll need to determine for your self if the KASK Elemento’s security options and score are definitely worth the $$$.

Measurement-wise, I acquired a medium primarily based on KASK’s dimension information. Attempt before you purchase is at all times a good suggestion in case you can (in any other case, be sure you buy from a retailer with a return/change coverage to your liking) as a result of it’s simply not head measurement that issues for sizing. Head and helmet form may be components too. On me, the KASK Elemento match my head form very effectively however YMMV. It was merely a matter of:

• Adjusting the basket on the again to the place I wished it to take a seat on the again of my head
• Tightening the rear retention so the helmet wouldn’t transfer round on my head, however not squeezing too tight
• Adjusting the chin strap so it was comfortable, however with sufficient slack to have the ability to discuss/eat/drink

The rear basket simply adjusts up or down for match/consolation and to accommodate a ponytail

Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey

One more reason why strive before you purchase is a good suggestion: the straps don’t alter for match on the perimeters

Whether or not the KASK Elemento or some other helmet, be sure that it sits low sufficient to cowl no less than half your brow and that the chin strap is comfortable sufficient to maintain the helmet in place

The place you place the basket in again is private desire for match and luxury, however be sure that it’s the place it should maintain the helmet securely in place

With none (or fewer) vents, you possibly can mistake this for a “pure” #aero helmet

Each time potential, it’s a good suggestion to examine helmet match with sun shades — particularly oversize protect fashion sun shades which might be the present trend development

Selle Italia “White Vary”: Flite Enhance Package Carbonio Superflow Saddle – Now Accessible in White

Selle Italia – A contemporary previous trustworthy

Selle Italia presents the brand new “White Vary”, a set that showcases its most iconic saddles – Flite Enhance, SLR Enhance and Novus Enhance Evo – now out there in a chic white model. The modern model of the SLR Enhance that includes a 3D-printed cowl can also be out there in white. For the 2025 season, Selle Italia has responded to the rising demand by biking followers to revamp its most iconic fashions with a chic white model that mixes class and magnificence with excellent efficiency.

Alastair Hamilton PEZ sez: I began driving a Selle Italia Flite whet the previous Turbo was discontinued, a few years in the past. Up till not too long ago, once I’ve been making an attempt a couple of different saddles, I’ve caught with the Flite, plus I like white saddles, like white sneakers. So now that Selle Italia have began to make the Flite in white, I needed to strive one and examine to the previous trustworthy and the newer SLR.

A really previous Flite, nevertheless it was gentle

My Flite assortment

The ‘newer’ Flite has been in the marketplace for awhile, however I’ve been making an attempt out the Selle Italia SLR, each the 3D printed and regular coated model. I believed it will be fascinating to match previous and never so previous, and likewise Flite Vs. SLR. In fact a white saddle will at all times get my vote, however I’ll attempt to ignore the color and stick with the tech particulars and, extra importantly, the texture.

Carbon rails

The primary distinction are the carbon rails, as with my actually previous Flite, the brand new one has carbon rails, however manufacturing processes have modified in 20 years. The previous rails had been made from carbon bonded to alloy (I believe), now it’s one piece of carbon which is then linked to the carbon and nylon shell of the saddle. Not like the SLR with Ti 316 and Manganese rails, there isn’t any rubber pad between rail and shell, however I might assume this might be due to the flex within the carbon. I didn’t really feel any distinction when driving.

Gentle, however the previous flite was a couple of grams lighter

Weight isn’t an issue. The L3 weighed in at 158g on my inaccurate scales, Selle Italia say 162g (± 8%), which might be appropriate. The SLR 3D Enhance with Ti 316 rails is 205g (± 8%) and with Manganese rails is 210g (± 8%). The Flite Enhance with Ti 316 rails is 199g (± 8%) and with Manganese rails is 235g (± 8%), so the carbon rails are quite a bit lighter and as I stated earlier than they do give some consolation because of the flex.

Sufficient padding

The padding on the Flite is way the identical because the SLR (non 3D) with extra the place it’s want on the sit bones and ether aspect of the ‘Superflow’ channel within the center, with much less on the entrance. That is the place the 3D printed saddle is completely different. The 3D printing course of appears to provide many various areas of consolation and/or rigidity to completely different components of the saddle. I’m not saying non-3D is uncomfortable, however 3D does have one thing extra. The trendy Flite has the ‘Superflow’ central hole, which my previous Flite doesn’t, and it is a massive step ahead to assist males’s well being, down bellow. There are some individuals who can’t get on with the channel, however I believe most do.

Modern fashion

The previous Flite is longer at almost 270cm, the brand new Flite is 250. The style in the meanwhile is for shorter saddles and in case your bike suits correctly, you most likely don’t want all that saddle to maneuver again and ahead on. The carbon rails on the brand new Flite permits extra adjustment, you’ll be able to push the saddle quite a bit additional ahead. The principle distinction between the Flite and the SLR is that the highest of the flite is flat and the SLR has slight dip. You possibly can really feel the SLR holding you in a single place, whereas the flite permits extra motion. The look of the Flite is smooth with its lower away sides and nostril design and the Flite badge on the again is a pleasant of completion. And the entire level of this assessment… It’s out there in white. White appears to be like nice, for my part, particularly with white deal with bar story and white sneakers.

An excellent width on the entrance

How does it journey? Evaluating the previous and the brand new: No competitors, however you must permit for age, not mine, the saddle. My previous Flite has seen a good bit of use and also you would possibly say it’s extra like an previous slipper. The brand new Flite is strong and cozy with no strain ‘beneath’. You possibly can’t transfer ahead as a lot, however then you definitely shouldn’t need to. Can I select between the Flight and the SLR? No. I like them each for his or her really feel and journey consolation, particularly the 3D printed SLR. If you must select; it will come right down to both the flat or the dip on the highest of the saddle and that may be a private selection. For me, I might say {that a} Flite saddle with carbon rails and a white 3D printed high can be my superb saddle, however Selle Italia doesn’t make one, possibly someday.

Flite consolation

Selle Italia sez: Combining timeless design with fashionable efficiency, the Flite Enhance Package Carbonio Superflow: White Version brings Selle Italia’s iconic Flite saddle into a brand new period with superior consolation and adjustability.

Flite Enhance Package Carbonio Superflow White

With the traditional flat seat profile that Flite followers know and love, this White Version saddle provides a brief and aerodynamic form for contemporary cyclists. The Superflow cut-out alleviates strain in key areas, permitting for all-day consolation over longer rides. Prolonged carbon rails permit for larger adjustability, providing you with the selection to fine-tune your setup for optimum stability and assist.

Technical Specs

• Weight: S3 157 g (± 8%) – L3 162 g (± 8%)
• Dimensions: S3 135 x 250mm L3 145 x 250mm
• Rail: Carbon Rail
• Supposed use: Highway.

Supplies and Shapes

• Fibra-Tek: Technical microfiber cowl materials that ensures a robust and sturdy lifetime at a really low weight
• Carbon Rail: +10 mm longer Carbon rail ø7×9 mm to make sure lightness, resistance and a wider vary of regulation of the saddle
• Flat: Flat saddles are steered for Dynamic Riders or people who’ve an Anterior Pelvic Tilt
• Superflow: The Superflow know-how drastically reduces all bodily limitations brought on by extended strain within the perineal space
• Carbon Powered: Shell made with carbon composite and excessive grade nylon polymer

Flite Enhance Package Carbonio Superflow White

Really helpful retail worth:
Flite Enhance Package Carbonio Superflow White: 314,90 Euro – 289.99 £

Meet the Vamoots 33: Pure Velocity – Zero Compromise

Meet the Vamoots 33—our lightest, most responsive highway bike but, handcrafted for pure pace and all-road freedom. Impressed by the terrain simply exterior our door—County Highway 33—this bike is constructed for clean tarmac, tough chip seal, and people irresistible dust detours again to city.

With clearance for high-volume highway tires and full-coverage fenders, the Vamoots 33 redefines what a highway bike may be. Light-weight 3/2.5 thin-walled titanium, size-specific tubing, and our carbon all-road fork ship stability and sharp dealing with throughout each floor. The very best half? 38c tire clearence!

✔️ Handbuilt in Steamboat Springs, CO
✔️ Optimized for highway, chip seal & gentle dust
✔️ 3D-printed flat mount disc brake + in-house dropouts
✔️ Seamless energy switch and flawless alignment

That is titanium highway efficiency—elevated, versatile, and unmistakably Moots.

Precision. Ardour. And one Dream Construct.

George’s customized Vamoots CRD is greater than a motorbike—it’s the results of obsession, element, and a relentless pursuit of the right journey. See how this titanium machine got here to life.

Learn extra about this construct →

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On June seventh we will probably be at Acme Bicycle Co.’s Impartial Floor! Are you going? Register immediately, and be sure you reserve your self a Moots demo!

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ORSO – Handcrafted Italian Efficiency Shoe

For the previous 18 years, suplest has been crafting high-performance biking sneakers within the coronary heart of Switzerland’s Emmental area—outlined by distinctive high quality, modern design, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. In the present day, we proudly unveil our most superior mannequin but: ORSO.

A New Period in Efficiency Biking Footwear
Born from our enduring ardour for efficiency, the ORSO is a results of our ongoing dedication to push technological and design boundaries. Developed with obsessive consideration to element, this high-performance shoe is hand-crafted in a small atelier in Northern Italy- very near the Swiss boarder. The workshop is famend for its mastery in technical racing sneakers, enabling us to satisfy probably the most demanding requirements in skilled biking.

The ORSO is greater than only a shoe—it’s a fruits of expertise, innovation, and craftsmanship. Examined and validated by the riders of the Tudor Professional Biking Group and Stefan Bissegger from AG2R Mondial, it’s constructed to carry out the place it issues most: within the warmth of competitors.

With including the ORSO to our assortment we’ve got a small however versatile assortment as by no means earlier than. We provide a shoe for each demand in biking. With the advance ROAD Professional from Taiwan and the ORSO from Italy, every rider has the chance to comply with the desire of his ft.

When the Circle Closes
This shoe isn’t just a product—it’s a narrative. suplest co-founder Robert, a former aggressive bike owner, transitioned into pace skating after his racing profession. There, he met Davide, a legendary artisan identified for crafting customized pace skating sneakers for a number of world champions. Robert skilled firsthand Davide’s meticulous craftsmanship and unmatched consideration to element.

Years later, their paths crossed once more sparking the thought for a revolutionary collaboration. Collectively, they fused a long time of elite-level expertise to create a biking shoe with unprecedented efficiency. The mission: cut back weight and stack peak to absolutely the minimal whereas maximizing energy switch and match. The consequence? ORSO—Italian for “bear”. A shoe that embodies energy, agility, and precision. Group Version White Version

Why the ORSO Stands Out

• Made Solely In-Home in Italy: A novel manufacturing mannequin—each pair is constructed below one roof, guaranteeing full high quality management and distinctive craftsmanship. Unique resulting from a restricted manufacturing capability per yr.
• suplest ID: Clients can personalize their higher design with unique customization choices immediately from suplest.
• UCF Race Carbon Shell: Developed across the proprietary anatomical suplest final, it delivers unmatched consolation, effectivity, and match. 100% made in-house.
• Warmth-Moldable Heel Cup: Superb-tune your match for final energy switch and safety—with out compromising consolation.
• Lowest potential Stack Top: Bringing your foot as shut as potential to the pedal axle for optimum effectivity and direct energy supply.
• Featherweight Development: Below 200 grams— with double boa configuration and with out compromising in efficiency. One of many lightest efficiency sneakers out there.
• Premium Italian Microfiber Higher: A glove-like match enhanced by our signature Anatomic Wrap and twin BOA® dials for exact adjustment.
• A number of Match Choices: Accessible in two widths, half sizes from 36–47 (half sizes from 36.5 to 46.5), and three higher designs.
• Pricing: The ORSO retail worth is 549 CHF or 569 Euro
• Availability: The ORSO will probably be out there in restricted portions, as we’ve got a small manufacturing capability to start out this mission. For curiosity, please contact us at suplest and we’ll look ahead that will help you.

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Michael Blann: The Mountains are Calling, Once more – There’s a New E-book within the Works

After the unimaginable success of the Mountains: Epic Biking Climbs guide, I’ve an thrilling announcement. Contracts have been signed, and work has now began on a brand new World Mountains guide. It’s a 3-year mission which is able to contact all corners of the globe and showcase the best and most lovely biking climbs on the planet.

Again in 2014, I used to be commissioned to do a photoshoot for Shimano on the island of Majorca. A part of the transient was to seize a couple of panorama pictures of the mountains and roads for the marketing campaign they had been creating. Unbeknownst to me then, this was the impetus for a private mission and physique of labor which has helped outline my profession.

I consider most of the defining issues we find yourself doing in life are influenced and formed by experiences we’ve got at an early age. My reference factors are vivid recollections I’ve of watching the early broadcasts within the mid 80’s of the Tour de France on C4. Again then, biking was very a lot a marginal sport, so any televised protection was restricted to ½ hr on the late hour of 11pm. The image high quality was usually poor, however Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen purchased the present alive with their enthusiastic commentary. Their voices and the heavy synth opening soundtrack of Pete Shelley (of Buzzcocks fame) has framed a golden period of biking and the epic battles within the mountains between Hinault, Lemond, Roche, Kelly, Delgado, Millar and plenty of extra…

Alto de Velefique Biking Climb, Andalusia, Spain

At the moment, I used to be in my early teenagers and moving into biking and racing. I hadn’t travelled far at that time apart from on my bike across the South Downs in East Sussex and some household holidays to the south of France or Spain. The names of all these climbs within the Alps and Pyrenees appeared unique and really distant. I had no reference level to the place they had been or how they linked to one another, however the Tour de France gave them a reputation and an identification which set me on a path of discovery.

It was that hyperlink again to the previous that made me begin enthusiastic about making a document of those climbs, which turned nearly a mapping course of linking the names from the Tour de France to a bodily place. This was to be the beginning of the Mountains mission which quickly advanced right into a guide which was ultimately revealed by Thames & Hudson within the autumn of 2016 titled, Mountains: Epic Biking climbs.

I can distinctly keep in mind sitting in a gathering with the publishers and being informed if we might promote 5000 copies we’d break even and everybody can be comfortable. Producing a guide on biking was a threat for a writer who historically printed books on artwork. The guide launched within the autumn in time for the Christmas market and was co-editioned into a number of languages. By January, it had exceeded expectations, and the gross sales figures confirmed it was T&H third best-selling guide for the yr regardless of being solely on sale for a couple of months.

Over the next years the guide continued to promote effectively and was revamped and expanded to incorporate new climbs and essays. Now almost a decade on, the guide has bought over 75,000 copies which is kind of staggering for a espresso desk guide on biking.

Annual excursions to the mountains and the Grand Excursions have turn out to be the norm for me, revisiting most of the climbs from the primary guide searching for new angles and viewpoints and exploring new climbs such because the Col de la Loze, Passo Spluga, or Jebel Hafeet within the UAE (to call a couple of) which have shortly turn out to be related and worthy of documentation.

Over time, my library of mountain photographs has grown quietly and steadily, out of view of most people, aside from a smattering of social media posts and the restricted version prints which have been made out there via the web site store. Inevitably it was solely a matter of time earlier than the dialog round a second guide was floated by the writer and the thought of a World Biking Climbs guide was conceived.

Col du Galibier, Rhone Alps, France

So, that is the official announcement that I’ve agreed to embark on a 3-year mission to {photograph} the best climbs within the World, stretching to all corners of the globe from the biking heartlands of Europe, South & North America, Australasia and the rising international locations in Asia and deep into Silk route of Central Asia and the arid lands of the Center East.

In equity, work on this mission began years in the past with numerous journeys to California and Europe, however issues actually ramp up now with the summer time months filled with journey plans to seize these new, undocumented climbs. It’s going to be relentless for the subsequent few years, however I’m certain I’ll get to expertise and {photograph} some really wonderful locations (and hopefully journey a couple of too). You possibly can comply with me on social media as I publish about my travels and the climbs I’m photographing.

I’d additionally love to listen to your suggestions for climbs you assume needs to be featured within the subsequent guide. Biking is an evolving sport with new locations coming into focus on a regular basis so let me learn about your most inspiring climbs which you’re feeling needs to be included. Give me a comply with on Instagram and drop me a direct message along with your options.

MyWhoosh Broadcasts the Return of the $1 Million MyWhoosh Championships 2025

MyWhoosh, the free digital biking platform, has introduced the return of its premier occasion, the MyWhoosh Championships 2025. The championship will kick off in August and registrations to take part within the championship will open in June.

The inaugural version of the MyWhoosh Championship occurred in 2023. Now, the second version is all set to return this summer time with a $1 million prize pool. This yr’s occasion will deliver collectively the world’s high esports cyclists to compete throughout six classes, with equal prize cash awarded to each women and men.

“We’re thrilled to deliver the worldwide biking neighborhood collectively once more for what has turn out to be the hardest and most rewarding occasion in digital biking,” stated Matthew Smithson, Senior Supervisor of Esports Occasions and Recreation Operations. “Our objective this yr is to boost the bar for aggressive racing and provides athletes a good and thrilling platform to compete.”

Further particulars, together with the occasion date, registration course of, race codecs, pre-verification steps and prize cash distribution throughout classes, will probably be introduced quickly.

Be part of the Race
Cyclists from around the globe are inspired to register and participate on this main occasion. For the most recent updates, go to the MyWhoosh Occasions Web page and comply with MyWhoosh on social media.

MyWhoosh Championships 2025:

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