The Radavist

SimWorks just announced a pre-order for the 2025 batch of its High Plains Drifter klunkers. Let’s check it out…

We’re so lucky to have Guy Stone from Relstone Cycles display his beautiful Ghidorah rigid MTB for this week’s Readers’ Rides. Inspired by Kaiju movies, this gilded steed features a King Ghidorah theme. Read on for a brief description and a gallery of photos by Daniel Iroh…

UK-based Brother Cycles just announced a pre-order for its rigid MTB, the Pinecone frameset (£707.50). These bikes offer better tire clearance than most vintage frames, feature track end dropouts for single speed shredding, and a segmented fork for some nice flex on rougher terrain. Let’s check it out…

The French cycling brand Massacan just announced its first steel bike and its first MTB with the Pianella. These rigid mountain bikes are made in Italy and are limited to only twenty pieces via a pre-order…

The first production run of the PBJ, or Performance Basket Jammer, arrived at Sklar Bikes in San Francisco. Now this versatile, rigid mountain bike is available directly from Sklar and their authorized dealers. We have covered the PBJ extensively since its earliest prototypes over five years ago, and we are excited that the latest ultimate iteration of this beloved bicycle is available to all. Read on for more…

Jeff Kendall-Weed took his Stooge Cycles Dirt Bomb to Whistler Bike Park’s opening weekend. While there, he hits 30 mph on the rigid MTB… Check it out for yourself!

Wilde Bicycle Co‘s Supertramp is its all-rounder, do-everything rigid mountain bike. With a steel fork, boost-spaced chassis, and large front triangle for optimized frame bag space, it’s as capable as a bicycle camping sled as it is a singletrack jibber and everything in-between. The Minneapolis-based brand just announced a few key updates for the new 2025 batch…

First previewed in last year’s Sea Otter coverage, the all-new Hudski Dualist is a boost-spaced “big sibling” to the Hudski Doggler John reviewed back in 2023…

A proper modern klunker, loved by Morgan, the Stooge Cycles all-new MK7 (£ 820 frame and fork) was announced on the brand’s Instagram last Friday, and is in stock now at Stooge Cycles. These updated frames feature two colors and three sizes…

Inspired by vintage MTBs of the 1980s through the early aughts, Brother Cycles just announced its own take on these mixed terrain bicycles; the Pinecone. Designed for 27.5 wheels with tire clearance up to 2.6″ (potentially more at a squeeze) and can take both rim and disc brake. The thinking behind this is simple: the Pinecone would be able to run 27.5 wheels with rim brakes, be it cantilevers or v-brakes, or it could run 26″ through 700c wheels with disc brakes.

Brother Cycles has a full gallery and blog post about the Pinecone, so if you’re intrigued, roll on over to check it out.

The PBJ, or Performance Basket Jammer, has been a model in the Sklar Bikes lineup for some time now. But today, the San Francisco-based framebuilder and bike company announced that the pre-order is live for these veritable “do it all” framesets ($1,399), so let’s take a more in-depth look…