One of the cools things at this year’s Sea Otter Classic was the Bike Skills pump track. Now in all honesty, I really wanted to try out this track, but I was intimidated by some hardcore kids that were in there tearing it up! But on Sunday we made it our first priority to get [...]

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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! [...]

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The Evomo crew are basically the bad boys of mountain biking. Rock Racing may hold the bad boy image for road racing, but for mountain biking, no one captures it like Evomo. So what makes Evomo so B/A? Well it starts off with some pretty sweet product and a couple swigs of JD. You may [...]

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If you do, you and Kenda Tires have something in common. While at Sea Otter, we heard about how Kenda didn’t like the rubbery smell of their tires. So what’s their solution for that problem? They made the tires to have a nice soapy, clean scent!

Ya, I’m dead serious! These tires smelled good, almost [...]

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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.

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No markings… production model will have a star and “Stroker Ace”
Some info:
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RL finished editing the video of Chris Cocalis discussing the new Pivot 429 FS 29er. Here it is for you. Thanks RL.

For pictures of the 429, click here.
My ride impressions will be up soon as well. Keep checking back for that brief review.
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While the best riders in the world were racing (KHS ARMY), the guys and I stopped by the KHS Bicycles booth to say “Que Paso” to our buddy, and KHS Team Manager, Quinton Spaulding.
He started showing us around the tent by starting of with some of the bikes that the Pros ride. Unfortunately “My [...]

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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 [...]

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This was the first event that SRAM put on that basically was this race where anyone could enter. We all sorts of people like the toothless Jordie Lund to kids that were 14 years old racing against factory riders from the likes of Specialized.

We were hanging out with Mike Thomas and Yanni of Tag Wheels [...]

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Most companies that decide to offer 29ers usually start off with a hardtail or fully rigid bike. Pivot, however, decided to come out with a FS 29er using the dw-link suspension design called Pivot 429. The Pivot 429 has 100mm of travel in the rear and optimized for a 100mm travel front suspension [...]

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