bike culture blogged

After a week of meetings and rides with product managers, so much to share from PressCamp 14 and for a Sunday afternoon, I’ll start with the Synapse Alum. At launches from big brands, you’ll occasionally find a personal project that made it into production like this and it’s lovely with metallic paint, color-matched fenders, and Rival Hydro at $2k. Rack mounts too. That’d make a very Pacific-Northwest style fender bike and if you’re into this, I’d start asking your dealer for it now. When I tweeted a photo of the Synapse last week, cropped it tight because the Rival 22 was under embargo. With the embargo lifted, here’s what that group is about too, value-priced and a hydraulic disc brake road bike at $2K.