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Is This Now the Best New Bike You Can Get for Less Than $1,000?

Is This Now the Best New Bike You Can Get for Less Than $1,000?

priority hot sauce macro Klunkerz . It’s not only a fantastic 2006 documentary about the birth of mountain biking in Marin County in the ’60s…

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priority hot sauce macro Klunkerz . It’s not only a fantastic 2006 documentary about the birth of mountain biking in Marin County in the ’60s and ’70s.

It’s also what those wild, tradition-bucking pioneers called their actual rides — modified paperboy bikes with hefty frames, knobby tires and flat moto-style handlebars. It’s not one single thing but a combination of features that makes this Hot Sauce so spicy compelling. Drawing on that proud, mud-spattered heritage is Priority’s new Hot Sauce: Scotch Bonnet , which is just as tough and off-road capable but, thanks to a number of smoothly integrated modern features, anything but clunky.

We dare say this new release in eye-popping yellow and red might now be the best bike you can get for just under $1,000. Here’s why. Uncommon feature set

What draws us to the new Hot Sauce is a pretty rare combo of qualities. Highlights include a weather-proof belt drive, an over-performing frame, off-road-ready rims and tires and a major upgrade over its big bro, the original Sauce, in the form of an 8-speed Shimano hub.

Let’s take a closer look at those elements. 1. Gates Carbon Drive belt

Priority Bicycles Central to every bike NYC-based Priority makes, including the new Hot Sauce, is a component so much better than a chain, I don’t understand why more bike brands don’t try it. (I guess maybe Big Chain has them over a barrel?)

I could buy a whole other bike with the chains I’ve busted over the years. Meanwhile, the […]

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