Silk Road

SilqueTrek has introduced a new women’s endurance road bike with the Isospeed decoupler popularized by the Trek Domane. The new Silque (pronounced “silk”) will reportedly provide the perfect balance of smoothness and power for female road riders the world over. The women’s size-specific custom Ride Tuned OCLV Carbon frame is designed for women to ride smoother, longer, and faster than ever before. In other words the Silque combines the attributes of the Domane endurance bike with the Madone race bike making for a stable but lively bike.

“The Silque takes the customization of women’s road bikes to a new level,” said Trek Women’s Product Manager Amanda Schulze. “When comparing female and male athletes on the same frame size, professional training data shows that most female athletes place less stress on the frame. Knowing this, we designed a size-specific frame to compliment a woman’s power to weight ratio, delivering the perfect balance of smoothness and power at every frame size.”

The bike comes in four models, the Silque, Silque SL, Silque SLX and the Project One Silque SSL. All be hitting the road this year.

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Muddy Bike

RasputitsaThe “Rasputitsa” is the semiannual mud season when unpaved roads can become difficult to traverse in most of Eastern Europe. It isn’t a problem so much today, but it presented problems for those who ever tried to invade Russia and for centuries isolated the east from the west.

It is thus a fitting name for the limited edition all road endurance bike from Honey Bicycles. The Rasputitsa is built and painted to truly celebrate the mud season. It is also just one of 22 models from the bicycle company, which appears to be ready to get things in high gear.

From the look of it the Rasputitsa is ready to tackle mud, gravel and just about any condition on paved, semi-paved or even unpaved roads. We don’t think the mud season would stop this one.

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[Via BikeRumor: HONEY BICYCLES KICKS THINGS OFF (AGAIN, SORTA) W/ LIMITED EDITION RASPUTITSA ALL ROAD ENDURANCE BIKE]