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Category Archives: Product Review

New Product: Bontrager Oracle Helmet

Aaron “Rambo” Harrison is Bike Gallery’s long-time fit services manager and resident expert on cycling comfort and efficiency. If you’d like to learn more about our fit services, ask for Rambo at our Beaverton store, or visit our fit services page.
Bontrager’s new Oracle helmet: The best accessory for the top of your head since hair.

The [...]

A Review of the New Bontrager Affinity Saddle

Aaron “Rambo” Harrison is Bike Gallery’s long-time fit services manager and resident expert on cycling comfort and efficiency. If you’d like to learn more about our fit services, ask for Rambo at our Beaverton store, or visit our fit services page.
The new Bontrager Affinity RXL with carbon fiber rails
After nearly 6 years and 25,000 miles [...]

Decline Magazine: The Trek Remedy 9.8 “delivers fabulously”

Popular mountain bike magazine Decline reviewed a rising star in Trek’s Technical Trail category, the Trek Remedy 9.8. Here is their official review:
For most technical trail lovers, the current ride of choice is a 125mm- to 160mm-travel all-mountain bike equipped with quality suspension, a travel adjuster on the fork and possibly a remote adjustable height [...]

Bontrager Affinity inForm Saddles: Research = Comfort

I’ve been riding an original Bontrager inForm RL saddle now for very nearly 3 years and well over 10,000 miles. I’ve had great luck on my own saddle and fairly good luck fitting folks to these saddles. But, Bontrager has introduced a new member of the inForm saddle line for 2011 called the Affinity that [...]

Why bike shoes?

Have you ever wondered “Why would I want cycling shoes? It’s just another product to over complicate the process of riding a bike. I mean shoes are shoes, right?” The answer is that not all shoes are created for the same function. But to better understand why, we need to understand pedals.
A brief history of [...]

Our first look at Cyclesoles footbeds

Beaverton assistant manager Brandon Bruins got an opportunity to test our new, custom-molded footbed product, Cyclesoles. Here’s what he has to say.
Our head fitter Aaron “Rambo” Harrison set me up with a set of Cyclesoles custom footbeds last week. After a couple hundred miles and a nice climb up Larch Mountain yesterday, I am a [...]