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Why we love them: Old housing and sticky cables results in terrible feeling brakes and reduced power. The Alligator kits the brake feel on all road and mountain bikes, are lighter weight than standard housing sets and can easily reused year after year - simply by replacing the liners or just the inner cables. They are completely sealed so there is no grit contamination and they use standard gear cables. They are silent, easy to assemble and add a nice touch over the plain housings that come on standard bikes - we recommend good quality 1.1mm stainless.     Buy...

A small rider owned company based in South Carolina, USA. Boyd has been pushing out some really competitive and well priced wheelsets over the last few years. Their latest 60mm clincher felt really fast and now wind tunnel testing shows and proves that it wasn't just a placebo. In a head to head they show lower drag numbers than the commonly bench marked Zipp 404. The biggest difference you will feel when riding the any of the Boyd Carbon wheels is the amazing stiffness - climbing or sprinting. This is partly attributed to their in-house designed hub which has really wide flanges...