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All-City Zig Zag

ACE Steel. It sounds like the troubled frontman of a 1980s hair metal band called Eagle Explosion. Or maybe a legendary overweight 1960s baseball pitcher from the Milwaukee Brewers whose ‘lightening curveballs were as sharp as his finely trimmed handlebar moustache’.

What this all-American title actually refers to is the proprietary lightweight steel tubing used by Minneapolis-based All-City Cycles, developed in 2016 and finessed since to create its flagship road bike, the Zig Zag. Although don’t discount there being a band called Eagle Explosion.

Steel is real

The United States is a proud steel nation so it makes sense that

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