2023 Feb 4 Tech of the Week – 1 We have loads of news for you this week, including Zwift’s new Scottish world, a 13-speed wireless groupset being developed by FSA, cool new shoes from CHPT3 and Cafe du Cycliste, and a cheapo hack for avoiding punctures, but we’re starting off by wondering if we’ve finally reached peak gravel. No, really this time… Shimano offers gravel-specific eyewear lenses
The world has already been introduced to gravel-specific handlebar tape (link is external) , shorts (link is external) and floor pumps (link is external) – and we wondered whether we’d hit peak gravel when Silca introduced a gravel-specific mini pump last September – but Shimano has upped the ante in offering its updated S-Phyre glasses with a lens designed especially for gravel riding. Shimano has introduced its second-generation S-Phyre and Aerolite eyewear models this week with Ridescape lens technology “that emphasises colours and highlights surfaces across different types of terrain”. The S-Phyre glasses are available with four different lenses: ES for bright conditions, RD for road riding, OR for trails, and GR for gravel. “Gravel-tuned lenses boost the contrast of a wide range of surfaces to highlight subtle transitions between gravel, dirt, and asphalt,” says Shimano. Whichever option you go for, you get a spare clear CL lens for cloudy days. 2023 Shimano S-Phyre 2 eyewear – 1 The updated S-Phyre eyewear features a straight upper rim – frames are available in a range of colours – and a new magnetic […]
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