Syncros makes beautiful stuff. On my mind in particular is what Marshall, the Brand Manager, pointed out to us: an AM wheelset strong enough for Free Riding. Marshall specifically mentioned that some players in the 29er market are picking up these wheels for longer travel design 29ers that they haven’t finished designing yet! 😉 Here…
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More Sea Otter stuff: Our buddy Q from KHS showed us a little something new that is starting to make the rounds on the net. It’s the new Hayes Stroker Ace, a 4-pot version of the very nice Stroker brake. Incognito No markings… production model will have a star and “Stroker Ace” Some info: *…
We got the Ay Up lights MTB Kit to test this last week right before leaving for Sea Otter and I’m going out on my first night ride with them tonight. But before that, I though I’d post up a couple of pictures for you and discuss what we’ve got here. The Ay Up system…
Stopped by the Formula booth and got a couple of pictures of Formula’s new brakes. The Formula people were not at their booth so I wasn’t able to get any more information on the brakes other then whats on their “flyer”. Here are Formula’s two brand new brakes. Both are for the downhill/freeride crowd. Both…
RockShox has a couple of new forks rolling out, or revisions is more like it. Revelation The first is the Revelation which has more travel options, new graphics and a new axle. The Revelation goes up to a 5 1/2 inches of travel and with new graphics & the Maxle Lite. The Revelation now goes…
If you’re here at Sea Otter with your 29er you gotta stop by Mavic’s booth and have them swap out your wheelset with a set of Mavic Crossmax 29er UST rims. You borrow them and ride around to test them. One of the first booths we stopped by this morning was Mavic’s and I got…
In the past few rides I’ve been on, I’m starting to realize that my bike (the black Sette Reken) is helping me deal with some of the demons that I have. For one, its drawing out some pent up anger that I have from past situations and the pedaling allows me to get rid of…
Alright… my attempt at showing off the cool color of the new Ibex Ignition 3. I got the bike from Lance to test today and I couldn’t help but want to throw up a couple of quick pictures of this bike before I get it all dirty. The color is called “Emerald Sand”. It’s a…
One of our readers, Randall had recently bought some goods to upgrade his Specialized Rockhopper from 8spd to 9spd. He was able to purchase most of his parts from Pricepoint.com. His current set up and new parts. SRAM X-9 Front Derailleur (bottom pull) SRAM X-9 Rear Derailleur SRAM X-9 Trigger shifters SRAM 990 9spd cassette…
I recently got an letter from the FCC telling me that if I do not comply with their rules, they will be forced to take actions towards Moe, myself the staff and possibly shut our websites down. Apparently they have received numerous complaints that we are “intimidating” our readers with our “no smiles” policy. For…