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8 hours agoI Tested Carl Friedrik's First Aluminum SuitcaseHere's What I Thought
An aluminum suitcase combines style and performance, making it a timeless investment for travelers.
Race Face's Turbine stem has been a popular choice for years, with several lengths and a range of anodized colors to choose from. The new 'standard' Turbine follows in the SL's aesthetic footsteps, with a similar, squared-off, and more angular design.
Frequent flyers develop rituals. Not superstitions, but systems, small corrections built over dozens of boarding passes and red-eye recoveries that separate a tolerable trip from a miserable one. The gear that survives this process tends to be invisible in the best sense: compact enough to vanish into a carry-on, functional enough to earn its pocket space, and designed with the kind of restraint that does not scream "gadget" at TSA.
The biggest update is the rim itself. The new TYRO uses a 45mm-deep full-carbon clincher rim with a 23mm internal width and 31mm external width. That wider internal measurement reflects where modern road and all-road setups have headed over the last few years. A wider rim supports larger tires and helps them maintain a more stable, rounded profile.
SPINNX takes that secondary life and makes it the whole point. Built by WEIWIN out of aerospace-grade titanium and held together by magnets, the pen separates into three modules that each deliver a distinct tactile sensation. Snap them together and there's a crisp magnetic click. Press the spring-loaded ball in the middle and it gives you another one. Spin the dice top and it rotates through a series of rhythmic mechanical detents.
The TiLink is a 24-in-1 titanium bracelet that doubles as a watch strap, creating this interesting yin-yang of capabilities. Compatibility spans across all watches with lug widths between 18-26mm, which means the TiLink can attach to the Apple Watch as well as Garmin, Samsung, Google Pixel, and analog watches. One side tracks your biometrics and messages, the other has screwdrivers, wrenches, a magnifier, and a fire starter machined from aerospace-grade titanium.
The normative form for interacting with what we think of as "AI" is something like this: there's a chat you type a question you wait for a few seconds you start seeing an answer. you start reading it you read or scan some more tens of seconds longer, while the rest of the response appears you maybe study the response in more detail you respond the loop continues
The product is Pedra's DRS (Drag Reduce System) and, according to the post, is currently a prototype. An electronic noise, similar to that of SRAM mechanical shifting, is heard, leading one to assume someone is hitting a button to activate the system.
So when Cannondale says the new, fifth-generation EVO is faster again, the obvious question becomes: how do you improve a bike that many riders love without overworking it and pissing off a large group of cyclists? The answer is you don't - you make small changes, and refinements - you don't "reinvent" anything. Thats exactly what happened to the new Cannondale Super-Six EVO.
Italian component brand Deda is leaning hard into versatility, but for a single wheel. It seems that 2026 is already the year of the "do-it-all-road-wheel," and with that, Deda launches an all-new Allroad Carbon wheelset. The wheelset is a modernly wide, tubeless-ready carbon option designed to hop the sidewalk between road and gravel riding. Rather than splitting its carbon lineup into narrowly focused categories, Deda positions the Allroad Carbon as a catch-all wheelset.
After launching several new products in 2025, Silca's first new product to hit the market in 2026 is Hold Fast Carbon Paste. The self-proclaimed " leader in marginal gains," Silca is already well-known for its high-quality bike pumps, multi-tools, immersion waxes, drip lubes, and much more. The brand continues to expand its ever-growing portfolio of products, typically with the goal of improving upon existing options on the market. That also seems to be the intention with its new Hold Fast Carbon Paste.