The author shares their picks for the best new bike gear of the year, covering a wide range of disciplines from mountain biking to gravel and road cycling. They highlight the affordability of some of their favorite products and their experience testing them firsthand at various bike races throughout the year.
Let's do it. Another year of great gear and my 2024 Editor’s Choice Awards to wrap up the best of the best. This year again felt like it flew by. That’s partly because I took on more and more of our Euro and mountain bike workload and partly just that there was a fresh flow of great new bikes to test.
Plus, I headed out to the tech pits of more bike races this year – from our home Czech CX Worlds to new Enduro & DH World Cups in Poland, to the local XC World Cup, some Gravel World Series racing, and even gravel & road stages of the Tour de France. There was tons of new tech to cover across every discipline, even some really interesting new ebike development.I’ll admit the ever-growing price of top-end bikes is a bit disheartening to me. But at the same time, several of my favorites of the year tended a lot more toward the more affordable end of the spectrum. With that in mind, l’ll just dive into my Editor’s Choice round-up of the best new gear that I actually tested first-hand this year. Plus, I’ll also have a few solid Honorable Mentions for some promising new things that I simply haven’t gotten enough time to ride just yet…Another year, another quick refresher on who I – a bike tech nerd & technical off-road rider – am, and why my picks might matter to you. For over 30 years, mountain bikes have been my go-to tool for fun with friends, fitness, racing, and just solo exploration. I’ve also been a designer & maker of all things big & small for even longer. I’ll ride anything with two wheels, but am really partial to getting myself and my bikes dirty. But riding, every category, means I might have the most year-end picks of our whole crew, too. Anyway, if I had to think hard about it, I could probably say I managed to put every bike I rode this year onto at least a bit of dirt, even those lightest, fanciest aero road bike
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