2010 Kona Hei Hei 2-9 When Tim was on Kona’s Abra Cadabra, I got to spend some time riding Scott O’dell’s personal ride: the Kona Hei Hei 2-9. There were some major changes to Kona’s Hei Hei 2-9 from 2009 to 2010. Included are the tapered headtube going from the 1 1/8” to 1 1/5”,…
Author: Jeremy Yang
Voodoo has a new bike that they are pretty proud of and I would be too. Voodoo Cycles is making their first foray into mini-link frames. Normally a 4-bar linkage company Voodoo worked with Joe Murray in designing a Floating Pivot Point (FPP) that exhibits anti-squat tendencies in this full suspension frame. Introducing the Zobop…
Titus Rockstar on the XC loop On Saturday afternoon Tim & I took out a couple of Titus’s on the XC loop (about 18 miles and almost 3k feet of climbing). I grabbed a Titus Rockstar. The Rockstar is Titus’s full suspension 29er with 100mm of travel. It comes equipped with all the new stuff…
We stopped in to check out the San Diego based Ellsworth. The big thing at Ellsworth this year is their move to add carbon frames to their venerable aluminum bike lineup and lets just say their carbon Firm Tails, don’t call them hardtails!, are beautiful. The headtube junction is big and looks impressively stiff but…
Last year, Tim and I got a chance to ride with Mr. Gary Fisher himself at the Sea Otter Classic. This year, as we were about to return our Kona’s (Abra-Cadabra & Hei Hei 2-9 impressions coming soon) we spotted Heather Irmiger, a Gary Fisher rider out cheering on her teammates during the Pro XC…
Santa Cruz has gone carbon with their new Nomad. With the success of their Blur & Tallboy models, it should be no surprise that the Nomad was next. Some pictures for you. Sana Cruz Nomad Carbon One current Nomad rider was oggling this beauty. I was too. Check out the compression molded carbon links. upper…
Thomas Paatz of Mtb-News.de at Sea Otter 2010. Uber cool guy Thomas, see previous post on Thomas from Sea Otter 2008, had flown in from Germany and was set to rent a mid-sized car. But when we saw him in the parking lot at Sea Otter, he & Jenz (sp? I apologize if I am…
I stopped by Niner bikes booth for a few minutes to mainly check out two things: how wide is the downtube on the Air 9 carbon and to see in person the new Jet 9. What I got was a bit of a surprise, and I’ll put it out there at the top so you…
One of our absolute favorite people and bike companies to visit with has to be our good friends at Redline. The Conquest 20 No, your eyes are not fooling with you, this is not a full size mountain bike. It is a kid’s 20″ wheel sized bike that can be ridden both on the trails…
I was thinking about what to start with for our Sea Otter 2010 coverage and I thought I’d start with a video Tim took.