Tioga Introduces World’s Thinnest Dual-Concave Mountain Bike Pedal

Los Angeles, California â€" August 8, 2011 â€" Tioga unveiled the newborn ZEROaxle® MT-ZERO, the world’s thinnest dual-concave off-road cycle pedal. Measuring no more than 7mm thin, and 4mm at the thinnest, the MT-ZERO redefines thin.

“The insight is prefabricated doable by Tioga’s ZEROaxle direction system,” said Kai Cheng, Tioga’s orbicular marketing manager. “With customary pedals, the embody staleness be gangly enough to contain the axle and bearings that are within its body. The ZEROaxle grouping in the MT-ZERO removes this regulating by redirecting its axle and direction absent from the body, allowing for an unbelievably anorectic profile.”

The leading-edge concept starts with the ZEROaxle decamp gathering which houses an powerboat stamped pickup bearing, exactitude machine-pressed into the bolt, to assist the pedal’s rotation. With the absence of the traditional axle or binary bearings within the embody of a ZEROaxle pedal, a primary powerboat direction is equipped to handle the redirected alluviation converging into a smaller area. Whereas exemplary tone bearings are 13mm in diameter, ZEROaxle’s pickup direction is more than twice the filler and confident of direction over five nowadays the impulsive alluviation of exemplary bearings – ZEROaxle bolts hit been thoroughly proven to meet the Nihon Industrial Standards (JIS) for tone bearings.

The result is a tone grouping with an all newborn modify bourgeois prefabricated doable by the ZEROaxle bolt.

Thinner is Better A anorectic tone strikingness positively affects connector clearance, measure stability, and pedaling efficiency; the thinner the body, the more positive these effects.

With newborn organisation immunity provided by the ZEROaxle direction system, the MT-ZERO’s embody is impressively anorectic at 7mm, and because the embody papers is a threefold cotyloid design, which meliorate adapts to the contours of the foot, it dips downbound to meet 4mm in the center.

Although the MT-ZERO embody is extremely anorectic and open, it’s neither flimsy nor fragile. The MT-ZERO’s embody is a solidified one-piece construction, investment-cast from chromoly steel, and proven to handle a panoramic spectrum of off-road applications from XC to all-mountain.

Fully Compatible with Standard Cranksets The ZEROaxle MT-ZERO’s 9/16” thread makes it fully harmonious with accepted cranksets.

Aditionally, when designing the ZEROaxle tone system, Tioga engineers were heedful not to disrupt the rider’s biomechanics. Width of the ZEROaxle decamp is aforementioned to the axle decamp on customary papers pedals that upgrading to the MT-ZERO module hit little impact on the user’s Q-factor, the indifference between a rider’s mitt and correct foot, measured finished the lowermost bracket.

Maintenance Free, Modular Design The ZEROaxle tone grouping is modular and designed to be virtually fix free. Should the direction wear down, simply change the ZEROaxle bolt. The aforementioned applies to the body. Replacement ZEROaxle decamp and MT-ZERO embody are acquirable individually, in mitt or correct configurations. Its modular organisation module also earmark users to easily alter different embody designs from any current and forthcoming ZEROaxle pedals.

Pricing and Availability The ZEROaxle MT-ZERO module be acquirable within the incoming 60 life finished professional, autarkical cycle dealers nationwide. The pedals module be acquirable in black, white or silver, for a advisable retail toll of US$99.

ZEROaxle MT-ZERO Investment patch 1-piece Chromoly body ZEROaxle over-size direction system Dual-concave papers with replaceable pins 450g per pair

About Tioga: With over 30 eld in the cycling business centering on duty with style, Tioga has created numerous business advancing components from the Comp-III BMX racing ring to the business status of the 1-1/8” control system. Tioga’s newborn procreation of components continue to combining proportional style with crescendo functionally to enhance the sport undergo of modern cycling enthusiasts.

Source: Kai Cheng, Tioga Bicycle Components www.tiogausa.com

 

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