Gear Break: KASK Elemento helmet, Selle Italia “White Vary”: Flite Increase Package Carbonio Superflow saddle now accessible 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 e-book within the works and MyWhoosh declares 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 incorporates a revolutionary, new design with superior applied sciences to ship the easiest 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 Workforce, 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 obtained the Silver.
Kask specs 300 grams, however doesn’t say for what measurement
PEZ sez: When aero helmets first got here on the scene, that they had no or only a few vents. They have 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. Curiously, 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 tug air out
Deep channeling contained in the helmet to tug air by means of from entrance to again
KASK claims it’s Fluid Carbon 12 composite technopolymer absorbs extra power from an influence than conventional supplies and distributes the drive generated extra evenly throughout your complete helmet. I’ve no technique to measure or validate this and definitely hope I don’t need to expertise for myself.
One factor that’s noticeably totally different from many different bicycle helmets is the KASK Elemento’s inside. As a substitute of conventional padding, KASK makes use of its proprietary 3D printed padding: Multipod. Based on KASK, it allows 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 wherein the drive is utilized. Once more, one thing I can’t confirm and hope I don’t need to expertise for myself. That mentioned, increasingly helmets are incorporating expertise to guard in opposition to rotational influence and that’s a plus in my e-book.
The entrance padding is conventional foam
What seems to be 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 necessary to level out that each one bicycle helmets have to satisfy relevant security requirements. For the US, which means the US Client Product Security Fee (CPSC) 1203 requirements. And it’s value noting that the KASK Elemento is rated as a 5-star helmet by the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab whose influence exams consider a helmet’s skill to cut back linear acceleration and rotational velocity of the pinnacle ensuing from a variety of head impacts a bicycle owner may 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 ranking are definitely worth the $$$.
Dimension-wise, I obtained a medium primarily based on KASK’s measurement information. Strive before you purchase is all the time 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 will 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 needed it to sit down 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 speak/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 regulate for match on the perimeters
Whether or not the KASK Elemento or every other helmet, be certain that it sits low sufficient to cowl not 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 choice for match and luxury, however be certain that it’s the place it’ll maintain the helmet securely in place
With none (or fewer) vents, you could possibly mistake this for a “pure” #aero helmet
Every time potential, it’s a good suggestion to verify helmet match with sun shades — particularly oversize protect type sun shades which are the present style development
Selle Italia “White Vary”: Flite Increase Package Carbonio Superflow Saddle – Now Obtainable in White
Selle Italia – A contemporary previous trustworthy
Selle Italia presents the brand new “White Vary”, a group that showcases its most iconic saddles – Flite Increase, SLR Increase and Novus Increase Evo – now accessible in a sublime white model. The revolutionary model of the SLR Increase that includes a 3D-printed cowl can be accessible 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 sublime white model that mixes class and elegance 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 lately, after I’ve been attempting 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 evaluate to the previous trustworthy and the more moderen SLR.
A really previous Flite, but it surely was mild
My Flite assortment
The ‘newer’ Flite has been in the marketplace for awhile, however I’ve been attempting out the Selle Italia SLR, each the 3D printed and regular coated model. I believed it will be attention-grabbing to check previous and never so previous, and likewise Flite Vs. SLR. After all a white saddle will all the time get my vote, however I’ll attempt to ignore the color and follow 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 have been product of carbon bonded to alloy (I feel), now it’s one piece of carbon which is then related 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’d suppose this could be due to the flex within the carbon. I didn’t really feel any distinction when driving.
Mild, 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 right. The SLR 3D Increase with Ti 316 rails is 205g (± 8%) and with Manganese rails is 210g (± 8%). The Flite Increase with Ti 316 rails is 199g (± 8%) and with Manganese rails is 235g (± 8%), so the carbon rails are rather a lot lighter and as I mentioned earlier than they do give some consolation as a result of 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 facet of the ‘Superflow’ channel within the center, with much less on the entrance. That is the place the 3D printed saddle is totally different. The 3D printing course of appears to provide many alternative areas of consolation and/or rigidity to totally 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 this can be a large step ahead to assist males’s well being, down bellow. There are some individuals who can’t get on with the channel, however I feel most do.
Glossy type
The previous Flite is longer at almost 270cm, the brand new Flite is 250. The style for the time being is for shorter saddles and in case your bike matches 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 rather a lot 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’ll be able to 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 reduce away sides and nostril design and the Flite badge on the again is a pleasant of completion. And the entire level of this evaluation… It’s accessible in white. White seems to be nice, in my view, 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 it’s a must to permit for age, not mine, the saddle. My previous Flite has seen a good bit of use and also you may say it’s extra like an previous slipper. The brand new Flite is stable and comfy with no strain ‘beneath’. You’ll be able to’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 it’s a must to select; it will come all the way down to both the flat or the dip on the highest of the saddle and that could be a private alternative. For me, I’d say {that a} Flite saddle with carbon rails and a white 3D printed high can be my ultimate saddle, however Selle Italia doesn’t make one, perhaps someday.
Flite consolation
Selle Italia sez: Combining timeless design with trendy efficiency, the Flite Increase Package Carbonio Superflow: White Version brings Selle Italia’s iconic Flite saddle into a brand new period with superior consolation and adjustability.
Flite Increase 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 better adjustability, supplying 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 recommended for Dynamic Riders or people who’ve an Anterior Pelvic Tilt
- Superflow: The Superflow expertise 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 Increase Package Carbonio Superflow White
Beneficial retail worth:
Flite Increase 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 easy 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 will 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. One of the best half? 38c tire clearence!
✔️ Handbuilt in Steamboat Springs, CO
✔️ Optimized for highway, chip seal & mild 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 proper journey. See how this titanium machine got here to life.
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On June seventh we might be at Acme Bicycle Co.’s Impartial Floor! Are you going? Register as we speak, and be sure you reserve your self a Moots demo!
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, revolutionary design, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. As we speak, 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 essentially 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 Workforce 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 likelihood to comply with the choice of his toes.
When the Circle Closes
This shoe is not only a product—it’s a narrative. suplest co-founder Robert, a former aggressive bicycle owner, transitioned into pace skating after his racing profession. There, he met Davide, a legendary artisan recognized 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 concept for a revolutionary collaboration. Collectively, they fused many years of elite-level expertise to create a biking shoe with unprecedented efficiency. The mission: scale 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. Workforce 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 12 months.
- 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: High quality-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 Building: Beneath 200 grams— with double boa configuration and with out compromising in efficiency. One of many lightest efficiency sneakers accessible.
- 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: Obtainable 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 might be accessible in restricted portions, as we’ve got a small manufacturing capability to begin this challenge. 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 Ebook within the Works
After the unimaginable success of the Mountains: Epic Biking Climbs e-book, I’ve an thrilling announcement. Contracts have been signed, and work has now began on a brand new World Mountains e-book. It’s a 3-year challenge which is able to contact all corners of the globe and showcase the best and most stunning 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 photographs of the mountains and roads for the marketing campaign they have been creating. Unbeknownst to me then, this was the impetus for a private challenge and physique of labor which has helped outline my profession.
I imagine lots 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 reminiscences 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 have 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 desirous about making a document of those climbs, which grew to become 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 challenge which quickly advanced right into a e-book which was finally printed by Thames & Hudson within the autumn of 2016 titled, Mountains: Epic Biking climbs.
I can distinctly bear in mind sitting in a gathering with the publishers and being instructed if we might promote 5000 copies we might break even and everybody can be glad. Producing a e-book on biking was a threat for a writer who historically printed books on artwork. The e-book 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 e-book for the 12 months regardless of being solely on sale for a couple of months.
Over the next years the e-book continued to promote effectively and was revamped and expanded to incorporate new climbs and essays. Now almost a decade on, the e-book has offered over 75,000 copies which is sort of staggering for a espresso desk e-book on biking.
Annual excursions to the mountains and the Grand Excursions have grow to be the norm for me, revisiting lots of the climbs from the primary e-book looking 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 rapidly grow to be related and worthy of documentation.
Over time, my library of mountain pictures 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 accessible by means of the web site store. Inevitably it was solely a matter of time earlier than the dialog round a second e-book was floated by the writer and the concept of a World Biking Climbs e-book was conceived.
Col du Galibier, Rhone Alps, France
So, that is the official announcement that I’ve agreed to embark on a 3-year challenge 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 challenge began years in the past with varied 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 superb locations (and hopefully journey a couple of too). You’ll be able to comply with me on social media as I submit about my travels and the climbs I’m photographing.
I’d additionally love to listen to your suggestions for climbs you suppose ought to be featured within the subsequent e-book. 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 are feeling ought to be included. Give me a comply with on Instagram and drop me a direct message together 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 passed off in 2023. Now, the second version is all set to return this summer time with a $1 million prize pool. This 12 months’s occasion will convey 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 convey the worldwide biking group collectively once more for what has grow to be the hardest and most rewarding occasion in digital biking,” mentioned Matthew Smithson, Senior Supervisor of Esports Occasions and Recreation Operations. “Our objective this 12 months 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, might 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 newest updates, go to the MyWhoosh Occasions Web page and comply with MyWhoosh on social media.
MyWhoosh Championships 2025:
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