Bike

Liv Pique

ADVANCED 0

$8,975

Staring at the Liv Pique Advanced 0 sitting in my garage, I felt like I was looking down the barrel of a gun. This bike intimidated me. It’s worth more than my car. It’s packed to the hilt with bells and whistles and, perhaps most scary, it’s a ‘cross-country’ bike. That equates to a lot of pedaling around on flattish terrain, which usually makes me feel slow and unexceptional. My one prior meeting with the Pique took place in the dry Sedona desert. This time we’d be negotiating the unrelenting rainforest of

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