One of our many stops at Sea Otter was to go see the Surly Big Dummy. This is basically a bike that has built in Xtracycle on it. As you may have already seen, I rode my Ibex/Xtracycle at the show and wanted to get some comparison shots and to check out the bike itself.…
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The folks of NuVinci demonstrated for us how their magnificent hub works. Check it out!
Cyclingnews.com is reporting that LeBron James of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers has purchased ownership stake in Cannondale: The Cannondale Bicycle Corporation announced this week that it had sold an undisclosed ownership stake of the corporation to King James, Inc., the wholly owned company of Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James. What’s totally cool about this (other…
Jenson USA is offering 29er RST suspension fork for $86.75. Why is this significant? This is actually very significant to 29er fans because it now lowers the barrier of entry for non-29er riders to get onto a 29 inch bike. Having this low end fork available allows manufacturers to spec out cheaper (think sub $500)…
Scheck it out mang, we just launched 2 new sites! Well you already know about CiclistaFanatico.com, but we also launched BikeCommuters.com. Founders of MtnBikeRiders.com Launch Two New Sites Fullerton, CA, March 10, 2007 –(PR.COM)– Founders of a very popular mountain biking website have launched two new sites, BikeCommuters.com and CiclistaFanatico.com. Moises Ramirez and RL Policar…
I just thought I’d bring you some eye candy. For those of you with a little more money to burn Sportsmobile brings you the ultimate bike hauler the Lopes 55 bike hauler. This thing is amazing. Forget about booking hotel rooms and dragging your bike into said rooms The hauler does it all. Here is…
The chatter coming out of mtbr.com forums confirms that Rock Shox is coming out with a different offset for the Reba fork. Not to get too technical, but the current offset is at 38mm while the suspected new offset will be 47mm. Increasing offset by nearly 10mm means quicker handling through the tight stuff. More…
Dumb question you ask, right? Well not so fast. 20/20 did a report on a “study” completed last September (BBC) by Ian Walker of Bath University in England. Ian Walker from University of Bath Here is John Stossel’s (20/20 host) report on that study, via C.I.C.L.E.. Even though this study suggests that wearing a helmet…
It’s being reported on mtbr.com forums that Travis Brown (Trek-Volkswagon team) was riding a full suspension Trek 29er. Can we say Trek Fuel 29er? He was also toting around a Trek hardtail 29er. Sorry, no pictures to post as Travis’s bike was a bit camera shy.
I just finished reading an interesting thread on the MTBR forum. The author was working on a mountain bike with 36″ tires! Check it out here. My first thought was “Why go that big when the 26 or 29 inch bike works fine?”. But then I stopped myself and realized that my thoughts are the…