A United Airlines pilot was charged in Adams County, Colorado, after he was spotted swinging an ax at a parking arm at the Denver International Airport.
31.07.2023 - 10:39 / forbes.com
Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas challenged me to a gravel race last year in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Okay, it wasn’t a direct challenge. But I knew the Alfa Romeo driver would be competing in the 2022 STB GRVL event. Ergo, if I signed up for the same race distance, we’d compete against one another. Obviously, I had no choice but to accept his challenge and to ultimately crush the Finnish driver’s spirits on the 60-mile Red Course.
Given that Bottas is an elite athlete who competes at the pinnacle of motorsport. And considering I’m 18 years his senior and not an elite athlete, the difference between winning and losing could come down to equipment choices. My everyday gravel bike for the past several years has been the Chamois Hagar by Evil Bikes. This is a gravel bike designed for mountain bikers—a full-send gravel bike, if you will—that is mega-fun but not necessarily an SBT race machine. The gravel roads of Steamboat Springs are fast and smooth. For good reason, they’re described as the “Champagne of gravel.” Indeed, the most rubber you could need is a 38c tire, but a 35c offers plenty of girth if maximum pace is the priority. Fortunately, I’d just taken delivery of a new ENVE Custom Road that had been a year in the making. This would be my secret weapon.
ENVE announced its new Custom Road frame—a first for the US company that’s better known for its wheels—in early 2021. I interviewed ENVE marketing manager Neil Shirley about this big move when it debuted and then ordered one shortly thereafter. The promise of this one-of-a-kind road bike was that it would be handcrafted in Ogden, Utah, to exact specifications. ENVE developed a novel approach to determining each rider’s frame design based on three key measurements: saddle height, bar height, and the distance between the bar and saddle. This is one’s ideal riding position, which had likely evolved from years of riding different stock bikes. Except with those, headset spacers and setback seat posts were likely used to achieve that fit. The Custom Road would do away with those by extending the head tube length and increasing the seat tube angle, respectively.
Since I live about an hour’s drive from ENVE headquarters, I did my frame fitting in person and also got a walk-through of the Custom Road birthing process. Like all carbon fiber frames and components, it starts with sheets of raw carbon fiber that are cut, formed, shaped, heated, baked, and so forth until they come out of a mold as more-or-less the thing you want to make. Stock carbon fiber frames are typically created from a monocoque process, which is a single mold for each bike size. Since each Custom Road is unique, these frames are the sum total of 12 different carbon fiber frame
A United Airlines pilot was charged in Adams County, Colorado, after he was spotted swinging an ax at a parking arm at the Denver International Airport.
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