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They aren’t flashy, but they will get the job done reliably and with a high degree of performance.

Maybe MG said it best when he said, “Light, stiff, comfortable… The RX8Rs have all three. I’m digging ’em.”

The PRO Smart Cage System streamlined my bike, made room for items that used to have to be crammed in with tubes and multi-tools, and it made sense to me.

So, looking at this tire as what WTB has described it as – a gravel racing tire – I have to hand it to WTB at this point.

But before we get too far into the weeds on aluminum’s value propositions for the gravel rider, let’s step back a minute and examine what the heck is really going on here.

After a couple of months of living with this stuff, I have my final verdict on each product ready to go now.

While it may seem, on the surface of it, that the RX801 and RX8R are just “RX8’s” with different colors and one has a cuff”, that would be far too simplistic a take here.

The functions I’ve accessed have all worked well so far, but the real value here will be if this device can provide turn-by-turn navigation reliably.

At one time many of us in the gravel cycling community felt that the UCI would “ruin” gravel cycling. I don’t think that is the case. The UCI has just made gravel cycling a joke, and it isn’t very funny at all.

OMM Elkhorn Rack: At The Finish – by Guitar Ted Summer is gone and so is my time with the Old Man Mountain (OMM) Elkhorn…