Friday Debrief: Free Hub Noise, Indigo Field Shirts, New Garmin Edge 1050, Crust x Nitto Cages…

The weekly Debrief highlights small but important bits of news, products, and things that caught our attention on the website, in the conversation, and elsewhere around the community. These include upcoming events and interesting items our readers shared in the comments. Check out this week’s findings below.

Bits & Bobs

New products that are worth highlighting but didn’t make the Dispatch…

Wheels MFG New Solo Cogs

Made in USA / $45 at Wheels MFG

Teased at Sea Otter, Wheels Manufacturing just launched four new cog sizes for their popular Solo-XD singlespeed conversion kit for XD/XDR hubs. Starting today at 10 a.m. MST, folks can choose from 19T, 21T, 22T, and 23T sizes in seven vibrant colors to tune their ride.

Garmin Edge 1050

$699 at Garmin

The new Garmin Edge 1050 was released earlier this week, with what the company claims is their most vivid liquid crystal display yet. The 1050 has several new features, like Garmin Pay, a built-in speaker, on-device course creation, and surface detection. Garmin claims the 1050 gets 20 hours of battery life in the most demanding use cases and up to 60 hours in battery saver mode.

2024 Otso Waheela Colors

$2,700+ at Otso

Otso revealed a new colorway of the Waheela C this week called White & Cool Gray. For those unfamiliar, the Waheela C is a gravel bike with clearance for 700c x 54mm tires (roughly 29” x 2.1”), suspension-corrected geometry for a gravel suspension fork, internal routing for a dropper post, and plenty of cage mounts. If you’re curious about this bike, be sure to check out Logan’s review here.

Vintage Indigo Search and State Field Shirts

Made in NYC / $160 at Search and State

Logan’s favorite shirt just got released in a new colorway. The 100% organic puckered Japanese cotton shirt is now available in Vintage Indigo. There’s also a restock of Clay and some Almond left.

The Sound of OneUp Hubs

$100-220 / Find the release Here

After we published our Dispatch, we stumbled on this short video OneUp released depicting the sound of their new hubs. You can find the release and all about the hubs here.

Crust x Nitto Nalgene Touring Cage

Made in Japan / $95 at Crust Bikes

The latest collaboration between Crust Bikes and Nitto is an oversized stainless wire cage. The Japan-made Crust x Nitto Nalgene Touring Cage can fit a Nalgene bottle, helping keep you hydrated on long rides. Cages are TIG welded and have a polished finish, and they way 112 grams.

In Conversation

Exchanges and ideas that caught our attention in the site’s conversation section…

Free Hub Noise?

Following the release of the new OneUp Hubs and the video posted above, not to mention BicyclePubes’ incredible recent interpretation of various free hub chatter 😆, we were curious: do most people prefer completely silent free hubs or do you like a little noise? Leave us a note in the conversation below.

Around the Community

News from around the bikepacking world…

BIKEPACKING OVERNIGHT SULLA VIA DEL SALE

Andrea Romano’s latest beautifully shot video chronicles a scentic two-day bikepacking tour through the Maritime Alps. It’s all in Italian, but the vistas speak for themselves, and you can enable YouTube’s auto-translated captions in your language of choice.

La grande Traversee du Massif Central

In April, Antoine Willemart set off on a solo bikepacking trip across the Massif Central, covering around 655 kilometers with 12,450 meters of climbing over eight days. April was still very early to pedal through the region, and the cold and wind accompanied him daily, which he says took him out of his comfort zone from start to finish. You can find the full route guide in the Further Reading grid below.

Events Starting Soon

What to watch this weekend and bikepacking events starting soon…

2024 Bones to Blue

Beginning and ending in Truckee, California, this bikepacking event consists of two loops—a smaller loop above Truckee (Bones) and then a big loop around Lake Tahoe (Blue). The route is mostly well-maintained singletrack with some fire roads and is a challenging course. You can follow the live event on the Trackleaders map embedded on our event page here.

2024 BC Epic 1000

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The BC Epic 1000 is a 1,040-kilometer route from Merritt to Fernie that follows a mix of service roads, doubletrack, and singletrack trails along a good portion of the Trans Canada Trail. There are over 40 riders registered for this years event, which you can follow on the map here.

Wish We Were Here

Shedding a little light on a route one of us is dreaming about riding at the moment…

Johan Wahl: Argentina

Lately, the idea of another long bikepacking journey has been calling to me strongly—something big, gruelling, and far from home. And one route that captures my imagination like no other is the Ruta de los Seis Miles, Sur. It’s one of the site’s original big-adventure routes and a major reason I became hooked on this platform five years ago. Then, as now, it’s the first route I gravitate towards when I browse the route network map. Whether it’s the mesmerising landscapes or the sheer remoteness and challenging nature of the route, the Ruta de los Seis Miles speaks to me. Throughout times of hard work and saving, this is the vision that keeps me more motivated than anything else.

Weekly Social

Some things we found around the ‘gram and elsewhere. This week, a handful of Instagram posts from this year’s Veneto Trail event in Italy, which remains one of Lucas’s all-time favorite rides…

Further Reading

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