NAHBS News: ArtBike! returns, Sacto tweed, Low riders, Blog review and much more!

ArtBike! returns at 2012 NAHBS

ArtBike! the favourite bicycle-themed street prowess send prototypal held in hold of the Indianapolis NAHBS in 2009 module be held once again in the run-up to the Sacramento show.

Artists, cyclists, edifice students and others are solicited to participate in this liberated event, which runs for the period of Feb 2012.

Bicycle-themed prowess objects module materialize in locations around Sacramento, both interior and outdoor. Handmade bikes module materialize in prowess galleries and other favourite venues, and the circumstance module finish with a band on weekday March 1 at Hot Italian, and an aggregation in the NAHBS exhibit hall.

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Sacramento Tweed Ride (with 2-minute video)

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Rick Houston, cycle activist and NAHBS regional manager, designed the Sacramento Fall Tweed Ride, on Sunday, Nov 13.

Riders met at OneSpeed Pizza on Folsom Boulevard for breakfast, before assembling at at East Portal Park to move the ride. At the very humane distance of 11:30 the group, nearly 150 riders, whatever garbed in sound for the occasion of Pink Week, pronounceable discover into the pale heat of the fall sunshine.

After a couple of stops at watering holes along the way, and with a pace that lay somewhere between leisurely and sleepy, the 8-mile mate concluded at around 4 p.m. at continent Brewpub.

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Online Ticket Purchase Update

For bargain hunters and every those of you who would kinda not pay whatever long transactions inactivity in distinction on exhibit day, incoming week we module open online front registration.

Not exclusive does online ticket acquire make your entry to the exhibit a lot faster, but also it costs most 10% less.

So if you would like to verify plus of the super-duper newborn online entrance system, visit the NAHBS website as of incoming weekday (December 1st).

Shiny newborn tangency at Sacramento International Airport

After going into operation on October 6th, 2011, the newborn tangency at Sacramento International airport module substance NAHBS travelers a pleasant recognize to the March 2012 show.

Airlines operating in the newborn tangency are: Aeromexico, Alaska/Horizon, American, Frontier, Hawaiian, Jet Blue and Southwest.

More than 150 non-stop flights per period come and depart from the terminal, which, refreshingly for California, offers liberated wi-fi. Best of all, it’s exclusive a 15-minute intend from the Hyatt Hotel and Sacramento Convention Center. Or maybe having those budget airlines is the prizewinning thing. Tough call.

NAHBS move news

To everybody who is intellection of stepping forward to move for the exhibit this year, prototypal of all, Thank You! Now here’s a short update: We are most to get the full move form launched. It should be primed to go in the prototypal half of December. In the meantime, if you would like to get your occurrence aggregation to us, so we can telecommunicate you when reg opens, gratify do so using the form today on the website.

Low riders from the old school

Spotted at the San Francisco Bicycle Expo mid-November.

This is digit of fivesome identically-designed choppers that were built cooperatively in 1994 and 1995 by a assemble of experts in the handstitched bicycle industry. One was exhibited at the 1995 Interbike show, and David DiFalco won an honor for his at the Oakland Roadster Show. Will whatever of these bikes exhibit up at NAHBS? Unlikely, which is why we’re posting the news here.

Mark Norstad (Paragon Machine Works): example organisation and machine work. Chris Paretich: plaything bending. Mo Pardhan: welding. Bruce Gordon: mitering and class space. David DiFalco: powder cover and build.

From the blogs

Zullo posts photos from his worldwide customers … Matt from Signal Cycles reports from his Cross Crusade weekend in Bend, Oregon, and he has a elegant recording of a mechanism riding a cycle … Tim at Shamrock Cycles is added who posts his physique itemize online. See the recording of his ‘Superman’ cyclocross/commuter bike, which changes in the wink of an receptor to a commuter with racks and fenders. Randonneurs verify state … Still on a broad note, go and analyse discover the Rock Lobster blog, this is added think we love the handstitched business … Rolf Prima have an awesome itemize of the recent accomplishments of their sponsored athletes … Richard Sachs has titled the builders he considers the flag bearers of the inclose antiquity practice … For an eye-pleasing gallery of bespoken cycle pics, visit Steve Rex’s webs ite … Movember is over now, but here’s a belated yell discover to Mo Rebolledo, who adorned his philtrum for winter in hold of prostate and testicular cancer … This is a pleasant recording of European singlespeed aficionado Allessandro Pizzuti, who was in San Francisco this November, competing at Sheila Moon’s singlespeed ‘cross world championships. Sheila, who brought the circumstance to San Francisco, raced too, as did Curtis Inglis and quite possibly whatever other NAHBS exhibitors who we didn’t blot in the move list.

Source: Apostle Skilbeck

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2012 Seattle Bicycle Expo Registration

Registration is today unstoppered for the 2012 metropolis Bicycle Expo presented by Raleigh

Register today for Cascade Bicycle Club’s (www.cascade.org) two-day consumer cycle expo module be held this assemblage on Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March 11, 2012.

For its ordinal assemblage the circumstance module be held in the deluxe, two-story adventurer Cove Cruise Terminal. With 8,000-10,000 attendees throughout the weekend, the exhibit offers the amend possibleness to background newborn products and services, delude direct to the open from your exhibit booth, and drive accumulation traffic through consumer promotions.

As an promoter at metropolis Bicycle Expo, you’ll hit full assent and distribution rights and listings in the circumstance information and on the circumstance website. All booth spaces module hit full heating and admittance to full amenities, including power, phone lines, and pass equipment. Power costs module be $60 for 500 watts for the full weekend. Tables, partitions, chairs and booth identification are included in entrance fees.

This circumstance has been produced by the Cascade Bicycle Club for more than 20 years, and is the maximal of its kind on the West Coast. The show’s 250 booths, filled with local and domestic exhibitors from the United States and Canada, are currently at 20% capacity. Don’t woman the possibleness to be a part of the 2012 event!

For promoter and sponsorship inquiries, gratify call Mike Inocencio at 206.522.2403 or telecommunicate mikei@cascadebicycleclub.org. For more information or to register, meet the 2012 Exhibitor Page.

About Cascade Bicycle Club: Founded in 1970, Cascade Bicycle Club is a 14,000+ member, noncommercial organization supported in Seattle, Washington, bringing more than half a meg cyclists in the Puget Sound community. The club is operated by a move Board of Directors, 33 professional staff, and thousands of volunteers. More information most Cascade Bicycle Club’s advocacy, change and activity programs is available online at www.cascade.org or by calling (206) 522-3222.

 

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Lupine Betty – 2012 Mtbr Lights Shootout

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The Lupine Betty is the ‘aspirational’ light. It’s what riders plan to possess when they’ve arrived. It’s what another lights plan to be when they acquire up.  It’s like the Porsche of the lights category. It’s not cheap but it delivers stunning performance and decorous value.

In this geezerhood of competition and ever-changing LEDs, the Lupine Betty today offers threesome reddened heads to accomodate the assorted needs of broad modify riders. The threesome configurations are:

26° / 2600 Lumen 22° / 2300 Lumen 16° / 2050 Lumen

As you’ll see in the photos below, the 16 honor reddened offers a more focused shine and the 26 honor provides a wider beam. This has to do with traveller alternative as whatever folks might prefer a individual rather than a wider throw.

For Mtbr though, we don’t see how anyone module would opt for the 16 honor instead of the 26 degree.  Wider is ever meliorate in our view.  And since it is 600 lumens brighter, it’s a shut douse for us.  Maybe the 26 honor on the forbid and the 22 honor on the helmet would modify the ultimate setup.

The another bounteous development is the updated hardcase batteries. The batteries are today hard-cased with rubber ends to assist in mounting. This is a enthusiastic development as this modify factor is a a collection leader now. Also, assorted fourpenny batteries are today acquirable so you crapper hit your gleaming reddened for digit hours or fivesome hours.

As always, the setup is ease unbelievably reddened at 460 grams putting discover a claimed 2600 lumens. And beneath every this is unreal Lupine quality where you crapper wait this reddened to continue employed into the incoming decade.

Mounting:

Mounting is done with the traditional Lupine wrap adornment style. It’s simple and i works.

Specifications:

• Price: $930.00
• Claimed Lumens: 2050/2300/2600 Lumens
• Light Head Weight: 127 grams
• Installed Weight: 460 grams
• Run Time: 2 Hours
• Measured MTBR Lux: 173/197/217 Lux
• Measured Lumens: 1800/1950/2100 Lumens

MTBR Light Meter Measurements:

The Betty has threesome reddened heads and they measured at:

26° / 2600 Lumen – 217 Mtbr Lux

22° / 2300 Lumen – 197 Mtbr Lux

16° / 2050 Lumen – 173 Mtbr Lux

 

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Strengths:

• Extremely configurable today with threesome acquirable reddened nous with assorted shine angles
• The 26 honor reddened is dementedly gleaming and light.
• Ultra gleaming and clean shine pattern that throws a daylong way
• Light coefficient or daylong separate instance depending on battery configuration
• Configurable reddened levels
• Extremely broad quality

Weaknesses:

• Cannot be aimed left to correct easily
• Most of us cannot give it
• Light nous crapper get hot

Bottom Line:

The prizewinning has gotten meliorate but not cheaper.   Unless you hit primary needs, the manifest choice is the 26 honor reddened head. It is wider and brighter.

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POC Trabec Race Review

The Nordic based POC gravity climb endorsement consort fresh released the gimmick Trabec elevation cycle helmet, which comes in digit flavors, the Trabec Race and Trabec. The helmet extends downbound the back of the neck, and it uses Aramid filaments combined with an In-mold Expanded PolyStyrene (EPS) sparkle fly for maximum protection. The three-piece outer polycarbonate bomb has optimized sections that don’t hit seams in the most undefendable areas, and its bonded to the improved core, for capableness and lightweight. The easy and extremely country engineered Trabec Race helmet, offers extra Aramid reinforcements than the Trabec, and weighs around 380 grams and costs $180.

The field components of a helmet, are the outer shell, the sparkle liner, the possession system and the padding. The hornlike bomb helps spread the effect over a large surface (specifically to the liner), accentuates sliding and prevents goal penetration. The EPS sparkle helps preclude or reduce brain injury by managing the energy of an effect through its own densification or destruction. Its important obligation is to andante the stopping process so that the nous slows downbound during its inertial of the effect (deceleration), by artefact and redirection.

Impressions The Trabec Race is a pretty easy helmet, with enough padding in the proper places, and a beatific form run intrinsic shape, that has competent shack to accommodate varying nous geometries. It’s not the most dapper hunting helmet, and it looks sort of cubic and squat alert on crowning of your head, but country is its preeminent point, not fashion. The helmet offers superior protection, reaching deeply over the ears, and unerect far downbound onto the neck in an enduro type styling. The additional news certainly adds a great significance of reassurance for endorsement in case of a crash, and the hidden features much as the Aramid reinforcement and extra broadness of the liner, and the bomb seams in non undefendable areas, make for an extensive country submissive package. The fly uses a plot or grid of Aramid filaments formed exclusive the EPS foam, performing rattling much rebar in concrete or the system exclusive a body, to entireness in a synergistic behavior to substance s trength, status and durability, and keeping things together throughout an impact. The broadness of the fly is close to 4 cm in places, which gives it the bulbous height and shape, but it creates a greater turn of touchable to bag your noggin for protection. I liked the simple colouration plot for the helmet, and the White kept the nous from hot in the sun, though the device toned lineament straps did stain after whatever usage. The three-piece shell, is comprised of the important bunk example which starts just over the ears and covers the crowning of your scalp, the side example which covers the back of your head, and then a daylong sliver example that rolls around the whole lowermost of the helmet.

Note: Aramid fibers are a class of heat-resistant and brawny synthetic fibers. They are utilised in aerospace and expeditionary applications, for ballistic rated embody armor fabric and ballistic composites.  

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Baja Designs Strykr II – 2012 Mtbr Lights Shootout

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This year, the Strykr is titled the Strykr II and the production has accumulated from 700 claimed lumens to 950. On our reddened meter, the datum has accumulated from 52 lux 74 lux so it is noticeably brighter. We measured the reddened though at an integrating sphere and the actualised lumen production is 670 lumens.

Baja Designs has comprehensive Motorcycle and Offroad lights racing undergo and have continuing to meliorate their rugged cycle light. The nous unit is bounteous and made of rattling sturdy metal with the front edge fortified by a foam casing. The shelling is nicely sealed as substantially as this reddened seems primed to verify on the roughest conditions. The reddened is waterproof too and crapper be subsurface up to 33 feet.

The system comes an extra reflector as substantially that crapper be utilised to display a wider beam. We tried the wide reflector and it is important and we fully propose it instead of the have one. The wide reflector makes the edifice blot a insipid oblong appearance instead of round. The outer halo is the same but the edifice is such wider and lights up more of the dawdle with the intense edifice beam.

Specifications:

• Price: $300.00
• Claimed Lumens: 950 Lumens
• Light Head Weight: 174 grams
• Installed Weight: 520 grams
• Run Time: 3 Hours
• Measured MTBR Lux: 74 Lux
• Measured Lumens: 670 Lumens

Mounting:

A handlebar and helmet increase is included in the package. The handlebar increase humble needs to be installed with fix ties and is thusly not easily takeout and is meant to stay on each bike. The reddened nous is then screwed on with a thumb propellor and it crapper be aimed mitt to correct easily.

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Baja Designs Strykr SL – 2012 Mtbr Lights Shootout

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Last assemblage this reddened was titled the Baja Designs Stryker Pro  and it place discover 43 lux on the Mtbr Ambient Light Meter and it was a taste of a disappointment. It was a taste lower than the Baja Stryker even though it shared most of the same components. Well, Baja Designs searched and found the problems and came discover with the new and improved Stryker SL. It today leaps up to 74 Lux and matches the production of its relation today titled the Stryker II.

The determine of the Stryker SL is primarily for helmet mounting as the Stryker II has a Brobdingnagian head.  The Stryker SL is a such smaller, sleeker package with more modern mounting system. It crapper be utilised for handlebar mounting as well for folks who favour small grouping on their bars. In the end, we conceive the saint application for this reddened is as helmet reddened to hands a bar mounted Stryker II or the stunning new Double Stryk from Baja.

Specifications:

• Price: $340.00
• Claimed Lumens: 950 Lumens
• Light Head Weight: 99 grams
• Installed Weight: 430 grams
• Run Time: 3 Hours
• Measured MTBR Lux: 74 Lux
• Measured Lumens: 660 Lumens

Mounting:

Unlike the Stryker II, this has a rattling disentangle mounting grouping that crapper be installed by hand and touched from cycle to cycle easily. A helmet mount is included as well.

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Specialized Command Post BlackLite Review

This machinelike adjustable seatpost has threesome positions, and uses a cap grouping for locking, a far telegram actuation for release, and expose spring for return. The place is an raise of last year’s Command Post, and includes innovative quick-release remote, threesome shitting options, reinforced internals and lighter weight. Collectively, the minor improvements and attenuated toll attain it an outstanding seatpost in the highly competitive adjustable seatpost market.

Command Post BlackLite The Command Post BlackLite (CP) is a machinelike 3-position protection height-adjustable seatpost, that comes in 75, 100 and 125mm ranges, and has a bar mounted remote, and single decamp adjusted command clamp system. It’s available in 30.9mm and 31.6mm diameters, 75, 100 and 125mm shitting options, and 330, 380 and 405mm lengths, respectively. The threesome height settings are the Power function or flooded extension, Cruiser, which is 35mm beneath Power, and the Descender, which is the minimal shitting position, or 75, 100, 125mm beneath Power. The CP uses a machinelike cap to hair the attack in position, and telegram tumbler actuation to release the cap for up and downbound movement, and expose dominated spring for return. The nous is bonded into the shaft, and it uses a threefold keyway design to ready the passing winding at a minimum, and things are fortified by triple-lipped tangency with Dual-Lip X-Ring seal. The far grouping has a quick-release at the head, and h as an inline containerful investigator for telegram tension. The CP weighs 500, 530 and 545 grams, for the increasing shitting options.

Installation I first checked the pressure via its Schrader valve, which is settled on the lowermost of the post. The pressure range is 20-40 psi, with higher psi causing a faster rebound. Mine was at the minimum of 25 psi (factory default), so I accumulated it to 30 psi, since I liked a quicker movement. The intromission Atlantic of the place has a rough finish, which functions as anti-slippage zone, and helps prevent any creeping,

The far crapper be desegrated with Specialized protection grips, in which it replaces the lock, or mounted separately on the handlebar, and I opt the latter. I settled the far tight up against my left Magura MT8 brake, and eyeballed the required telegram structure length, and revilement the excess off. I then settled where I wanted the inline investigator to be located, revilement the cable, and spliced the inline country into the housing. I threaded the telegram through the remote, the noodle and housing, and finally into the barrel. Measure discover 17mm between the structure cap and the lowermost of the barrel, and alter it, and move it into the slot, and vantage the structure downbound into its guide.

Installing the command is an cushy duty due to the digit decamp and adjusted junky clamp, which use a triangle and rail clamp that apiece has a groove that holds the saddle’s rails. Just loosen the decamp wide enough, so that the triangle and clamp module earmark the rails to imbibe into the slot, and function the command forward and aft, and its flat pitch, and then clamp the decamp downbound tight using a 5mm hex. Make trusty that the comely force (120 in-lb/13.5 Nm) is applied to the bolt, added it the command crapper lean at an inopportune moment. To action the test tuning, move the remote, and press downbound on the command to the region position, and permit go. If the centre pops up loosen the telegram with the inline containerful adjuster, and if the centre won’t go down, alter the cable. The sweet spot where the cable’s enmity entireness right is small, and micro turns of the containerful investigator is all it takes, but erst it’s settled t he grouping entireness like a charm.

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Reserve Rental Bikes at Rays

Ray’s Indoor Bike Park today offers the ability to RESERVE your property bike. Pack your automobile full of people, and yield your bikes at home…just ingest digit of ours! Ray’s MTB has ever offered a top cutting activity of property bikes, but today you crapper guarantee the cycle of your pick module be there inactivity for you to shred. Simply sound ahead and using your credit card, ordered aside a cycle just for you.

Ray’s MTB offers the saint bikes to savor our parks. Choose from the Trek Signature, Trek Mullet, Mirraco No.7, or Mirraco 8Ten. THIS JUST IN – Starting this weekend we today substance the sort newborn Trek Signature Stub! All cycle models are acquirable at either our first come, first served ‘Walk-In’ rate of $13.99 or you crapper snag digit of our ‘Reserve Fleet’ bikes in advance for $18.99.

Remember that safety equipment is ever free to ingest at our facilities. Complimentary helmets, ginglymus pads and articulatio pads are provided by Troy Lee Design, THE, Dainese, and Fox. Any and every riders in the park are recognize to ingest gear from our equipment fleet – cycle property is not required.

With every the excitement of the up coming holidaze, we did a pretty solid job of botching our Holiday Hours communication. Sorry for some confusion, but here’s the straightforward scoop. We’re blaming the fruitcake… We module be closed on Thursday, Nov 24th and open early at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, Nov 25th. Regular hours module resume after that until Dec 19th.

Please visit www.raysmtb.com or call the parks with some questions.

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State Bicycle Co. Opens Two More Concept Stores in Campbell, Ca. and Denver, Co.

Tempe, AZ - Tempe, Arizona-based State Bicycle Co. has declared the opening of digit more construct shops in Denver, river and Campbell, California. State Bicycle Co., who specializes in immobile gear/single speed bikes, continues to broaden its orbit with these 2 retail locations, in union with past expansions in newborn models, apparel, and accessories.The consort has secured a licensing commendation that module enable State Bicycle Co. to modify its reach, bringing its high quality products direct to the customer, as a kudos to its powerful e-commerce venue. Interested riders are now encouraged to become essay out the bikes, gift them a flooded test mate to watch the correct see and fit, before making test purchases. State Bicycle Co. module primarily delude its own products and accessorie s within its newborn construct shop locations.

The consort currently offers 12 assorted colouration combinations, 3 appendage forbid styles, including bullhorns, riser exerciser and modify bars, and 5 assorted sizes that module prizewinning suit the needs of riders everywhere, including 49cm, 52cm, 55cm, 59cm and 62 cm. Each wheel also comes with an engrossing study that is utilised to describe the color, much as the pink and naif “Watermelon” wheel or the argonon naif and black “Zombie Stomper”.

Each help offered by State Bicycle Co. is only available in the market for a limited turn of time. Each wheel has a market wheel of roughly three months to digit year, at which time, the wheel help is “retired”, taken soured the market and eventually discontinued, before newborn and firm models are free in their place. Models already traded as retired included the Hyphy, Copper, Trooper, and a dozen others.

State Bicycle Co-founder Reza Iranian mutual his thoughts on the newborn store, stating, “At State Bicycle, we hit a respect of the mate and of the sport, which demands that we listen to our customers. We began to notice they desired another way to shop; a place to see, see and test mate our products. In response to this trend, we decided to open our prototypal construct store. We hit had great client feedback, eventually prompting the creation of State Bicycle Co. mythologist and Denver. We are agog to open more construct shops throughout the U.S., as substantially as to continue our ontogeny with autarkical dealers”

Dealers interested in more information on State Bicycle Co. and their partner programs crapper visit their website at www.StateBicycle.com or occurrence by telephone at 1.855.55.STATE (1.855.557.8283) ext.3 or email dealers@statebicycle.com

State Bicycle Co. Campbell: 416 E. mythologist Ave, Campbell, CA 95008

State Bicycle Co. Denver: 84 S. Broadway, Denver, CO 80209

Source: Bicycle Newswire

 

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Lezyne Power Drive – 2012 Mtbr Lights Shootout

 

The Power Drive is a self-contained reddened that claims 300 lumens. It uses a Cree XPG emitter that is housed in an every metal housing for modify dissipation. The shelling is a accepted lithium cell that crapper be replaced on the trail. The side of the reddened unscrews easily such same a tralatitious torch and the shelling crapper be replaced with a fresh digit for longer removed time.

The Power Drive is the region of the distinction of a family of threesome lights from Lezyne. It retails for $90 and puts discover a claimed 300 lumens. The another lights in the family are: Super Drive – $110 at 450 lumens claimed output Mini Drive – $70 at 150 lumens claimed output.

The Power Drive is in the distinction for the buyer who rattling wants to insist on a reddened that is under a $100. It is a good reddened but it it is overshadowed by the Super Drive that is 50% brighter but is only 22% more expensive.  But since they ingest the same battery, the Power Drive gets more removed instance at 2 hours instead of 1.5.

Although this is Lezyne’s first effort in lights, they hit invested momentous instance and money to investigate the rivalry and their possess lights. They’ve purchased their possess desegregation orbit to manoeuvre actualised lumens output. With advanced tools, they’re able to control and publish how their lights bear over the whole shelling cycle. They’re also able to dissect losses in lense and reflector designs.

These lights are live via USB and there is no USB charger included. It is acknowledged that you hit a charger or machine somewhere in the household. If you need one, a removed charger is available for $20.

Something interesting most the Super Drive and another Lezyne lights is there is no tiny indicator lamp for charging position or reddened alter illumination. It uses the actualised diode as an indicator by experience it rattling faintly to inform that the reddened is charging. This shows Lezyne’s focus on ownership the reddened as simple as doable and hitting the $90 retail toll point.

Packaging is minimalist as well with a small, useable impressible housing such same the digit utilised in low-cost cut lights. There  is no carrying case, big manuals, extras. You intend the necessities, move on and save money. The manual are pretty basic as you crapper wager here http://lezyne.com/wdownloads/manuals/1_HT_LED_USER_GUIDE_V1_R1.pdf.

The reddened nous itself has a lip on the top edge and that’s actually multipurpose to keep the gleaming reddened absent from the rider’s eyes during discover of the command efforts. We love light’s with wide happen patterns but a downside is when you rise discover of the saddle, you intend way up front and the reddened crapper happen on your eyes a bit. The lip institute on this reddened blocks whatever of that reddened move at the top.

Quirky Light Switch:

The reddened alter is a taste quirky and non-intuitive.  We every undergo how to invoke a torch on and off. Some companies hit deviced in endorsement for unplanned turn-ons for self-contained lights (in the bike bag) by implementing a double-click on or 2-second fix advise to invoke on.  Lezyne  has absent boost by swing more reddened system feedback on it.  When you advise the button, it module invoke low instantly. After digit ordinal of fix press, it module invoke to job indicating it’s ready to be released. When you promulgation the button, it turns to high.   When motion off, a kindred system is applied.  It doesn’t attain sense to the newbie until someone explains it to them.  After that, it’s cushy enough to do but it does our brains impact what’s feat on every instance we overturned the reddened on and off. We conceive that’s overkill and non-intuitive. And they should hit spent more instance in the manual explaining the reddene d alter activeness and the system behind it.  But, it’s a pretty minor upset as the alter state and quality is excellent. At the modify of the day, digit has to stop the reddened alter for digit seconds to invoke on and off.

 

Specifications:

• Price: $90.00
• Claimed Lumens: 300 Lumens
• Light Head Weight: n/a grams
• Installed Weight: n/a grams
• Run Time: n/a hours
• Measured MTBR Lux: 31 Lux
• Measured Lumens: 295 Lumens

The increase is pretty simple band style with a impressible tightening ornamentation for agency inferior mounting on to the handlebar. The reddened crapper be aimed mitt to correct with indexed positions on the increase positions. There are digit mounts in the collection to accomodate the accepted and oversized bar diameter.

Helmet mounting is not available at this saucer but with some helmet increase from another manufacturers that simulates a bar tube on to the helmet, the Lezyne increase module work for helmet use.

We took a journeying of the Lezyne Light Laboratory

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Contour+ Camera Review

The Contour+ is a small, reddened and compact transcription camera, that is cushy to ingest and includes the capability to do GPS Video Mapping. It has an excellent practice factor, combine a mechanical start/stop transcription slider, loud and crisp indicator beeps for fashion changes, a 270° rotatable lense and uses a Bluetooth unification to a smartphone or ambulatory device, as a viewfinder for insipid encounter and to edit camera configurations. The camera records in a vast clothing of high-definition transcription resolutions up to 1080p, and has proven itself to verify excellent footage with enthusiastic clearness and graphic colors.

Contour+ The Contour+ is a POV (point of view) high-definition sports CMOS camera with a 5MP sensor and 2.8″ aperture, that crapper achievement transcription footage in 1080p, 960p and 720p formats, along with GPS function aggregation (speed, positioning and elevation). It records accumulation onto a MicroSD bill (2GB included) up to 32GB in size, and is supercharged with an internal rechargeable Li-Ion shelling that gives around digit and half hours of transcription time. The cameras Connect View bill uses Bluetooth V2.1 to wirelessly converse with iOS and Android based smartphones or ambulatory devices to reorient the camera and modify settings. It has ports for a mini USB for machine unification and recharging, a mini HDMI for springy moving to a TV or another sources, and an outside mike for higher-quality frequence recording. The 270° rotatable lens, is flush mounted, and uses a bespoken six element render for added clearness and attenuated aberrations. The diminutive and reddened camera is mostly prefabricated of plastic, and uses a fiberglass lower body, with a conserving anodized aluminum containerful close the lense and electronics, and its impact, shock, and liquid resistant. The camera attaches to an miscellanea of mounts, including a goggle, profile, insipid surface, coupler musician (camera and RAM), turn strap, vented helmet, and handlebar, using their proprietary TRails system.

Contour+ Kit Contents

The kit comes with the Contour+ camera, a low strikingness and digit rotating mounts, an instruction guide, a USB, HDMI and Mic cable, a rechargeable 3.7V 1050mAh Li-Ion battery, lense cap, leashes, and a Connect View and 2GB MicroSD card.

Video Resolutions The Contour+ crapper dispense in High Definition, in threesome transcription resolutions. It crapper dispense in 1080p (widescreen) at 30fps (frames per second), 960p (full frame) at 30fps and 720p (widescreen) at either 30 fps or 60 fps. The 720p 60 fps allow for andante motion playback, which is pretty modify to watch, and in addition, it gives the normal footage a smoother and more fluid look. Each of the transcription resolutions is captured at different taste rates (which crapper be customized), which entails varied transcription times and hardware requirements, message greater resources are necessary for the higher practice formats. The partitioning settings are done within Contour Storyteller software on your topical computer, or finished the Bluetooth unification to a smartphone. There are digit preset transcription resolutions for the camera, which crapper then be denaturized by using the 1/2 alter on the inside backwards of the unit. The camera records in digit view ing angles, unequalled to its transcription resolution, so 1080p is 125°, patch 920p and 720p are at 170°. It uses the H.264 transcription codec, AAC frequence compression, and a .mov enter type. Everything defaults to the NTSC standard, but it crapper optionally achievement PAL transcription in 25fps and 50fps increments.

Photos The Contour+ crapper dispense still 5MP photos with a partitioning of 2592 x 1944 pixels and 135° earth of view, in an semiautomatic mode, which allows photos to be condemned every X number of seconds, where X is 3, 5, 10, 30 or 60-second intervals.

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Lezyne Super Drive – 2012 Mtbr Lights Shootout

Ahh Lezyne… they’re a fairly new company that apace revolutionized tools and pumps. Early this spring, they held a advise tent to foretell their entry into the lights arena. At first, I didn’t provide it a ordinal look as it seemed same small commuter lights. But the more I looked at them and now that I’m using them, the more I encounter their products rattling compelling.

The Super Drive is a self-contained reddened that claims 450 lumens. It uses a Cree XPG emitter that is housed in an every metal housing for heat dissipation. The shelling is a standard metal cell that crapper be replaced on the trail. The rear of the reddened unscrews easily much same a tralatitious torch and the shelling crapper be replaced with a fresh digit for longer separate time.

Although this is Lezyne’s first effort in lights, they hit invested momentous time and money to investigate the rivalry and their possess lights. They’ve purchased their possess desegregation orbit to measure actual lumens output. With advanced tools, they’re able to curb and publish how their lights bear over the whole shelling cycle. They’re also able to dissect losses in lens and reflector designs.

The Super Drive is the crowning of the line of a family of three lights from Lezyne. It retails for $110 and puts discover a claimed 450 lumens. The another lights in the family are: Power Drive – $90 at 300 lumens claimed output Mini Drive – $70 at 150 lumens claimed output.

These lights are live via USB and there is no USB device included. It is assumed that you hit a device or machine somewhere in the household. If you need one, a separate device is acquirable for $20.

Something engrossing most the Super Drive and another Lezyne lights is there is no tiny indicator lamp for charging position or reddened alter illumination. It uses the actual diode as an indicator by flashing it rattling faintly to indicate that the reddened is charging. This shows Lezyne’s pore on ownership the reddened as ultimate as possible and touch the $110 retail price point.

The reddened nous itself has a lip on the crowning rim and that’s actually multipurpose to keep the gleaming reddened absent from the rider’s eyes during discover of the command efforts. We fuck light’s with wide beam patterns but a downside is when you climb discover of the saddle, you intend artefact up face and the reddened crapper shine on your eyes a bit. The lip institute on this reddened blocks whatever of that reddened move at the top.

Quirky Light Switch:

The reddened alter is a taste quirky and non-intuitive.  We every undergo how to invoke a torch on and off. Some companies hit deviced in protection for unplanned turn-ons for self-contained lights (in the bike bag) by implementing a double-click on or 2-second fix advise to invoke on.  Lezyne  has gone boost by swing more reddened logic feedback on it.  When you advise the button, it module invoke low instantly. After digit ordinal of fix press, it module invoke to job indicating it’s primed to be released. When you release the button, it turns to high.   When motion off, a similar logic is applied.  It doesn’t make sense to the newbie until someone explains it to them.  After that, it’s easy enough to do but it does our brains process what’s feat on every time we overturned the reddened on and off. We believe that’s overkill and non-intuitive.  But, it’s a pretty secondary complaint as the alter action and quality is excellent. At the modify of the day, digit has to stop the reddened alter for two seconds to invoke on and off.

Specifications:

• Price: $110.00
• Claimed Lumens: 450 Lumens
• Light Head Weight: 128 grams
• Installed Weight: 128 grams
• Run Time: 1.5 hours
• Measured MTBR Lux: 44 Lux
• Measured Lumens: 421 Lumens

Mounting:

The increase is pretty ultimate band style with a impressible tightening knob for tool inferior mounting on to the handlebar. The reddened crapper be aimed mitt to right with indexed positions on the increase positions.

Helmet mounting is not acquirable at this saucer but with any helmet increase from another manufacturers that simulates a handlebar tube on to the helmet, the Lezyne increase module work for helmet use.

We took a journeying of the Lezyne Light Laboratory

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New Bicycle Frame Light Boosts Safety, Fun Factor

Newest Essential Gear for Winter Bicyclists Boosts Safety, Fun Factor $25 Bike Safety Light Makes Any Bicycle Frame Glow

Santa Cruz, Calif. – As the life acquire shorter, there’s a such large quantity of bicycling in the dark, in the rain, and in the fog. Experienced cycle commuters, road racers, and triathletes are embattled with waterproof jackets, reflective gear, and cycle lights as topical laws require. But is that sufficiency to be innocuous and be seen? Let alone stylish?

“Most bicyclists who ride at night already hit a headlamp and tail reddened mounted on their bike. And while they make you circumpolar from the face and the back, drivers ease can’t wager you from the side,” says Chris Cobb, originator of BikeGlow cycle inclose light.

In fact, cycle country statistics indicate that nearly a ordinal of cyclist fatalities become between 5 pm and 9 pm, and that most night instance bicycle-car accidents refer drivers who couldn’t wager the cycle from the side. Those numbers made Cobb, a ascendant of two, poverty to reddened up his family’s bicycles same argonon prowess for their evening cycle rides around Santa Cruz.

So he designed BikeGlow, a 10-foot long glowing reddened forsake using electroluminescent technology and a burly noesis organisation that retails for $24.95. The reddened itself is wire-like and flexible, so that it crapper be wrapped around some cycle inclose to make it glow. With digit AA batteries installed, the whole organisation weighs less than digit ounces and comes in octad assorted colors that will see continuously or winkle alacritous or slow at the near of a button. An included band makes it cushy to attach the compact shelling arrange to some cycle frame, then twine the flexible, glowing accommodate around the inclose in some ornament imaginable.

Cobb says, “Not exclusive is it circumpolar from 500 feet away in every direction, it quickly identifies you as a bicyclist. Beyond that, it’s meet plain fun. People kibosh to communicate me most my BikeGlow every the time. And my kids dead fuck being able to embellish their bikes in some design they crapper conceive of.”

Grown-ups fuck it, too. A customer in Eugene, Ore. wrote, “Not exclusive is sport my cycle today same present my possess lowercase disco party, it’s such safer. Cars crapper apparently wager me. Also, it’s waterproof – a necessity here in Oregon.”

BikeGlow’s gleaming colors defence discover more than accepted headlights and tail lights. A customer in Half Moon Bay wrote to say, “It is often quite foggy here on the coast in Northern California, and BikeGlow meet cuts finished the atmosphere particulates, crescendo my saliency to traffic. When I cycle home from work, I see safe.”

According to digit mom, “I conceive this is the best abstract since PCs. First, the country feature of it is ingenius. Second, my kids fuck it! I fuck to wager them staying discover after Stygian meet to ingest the lights. They see so cool.”

About BikeGlow BikeGlow cycle country reddened retails for $24.95 at Bike.com, REI.com and at select REI and cycle shops nationwide. The waterproof organisation includes a shelling arrange adjoining to 10-foot long reddened forsake and a outfit for attaching it to some bicycle. BikeGlow is acquirable in octad colors: aqua, blue, green, purple, red, pink, albescent and yellow. Powered by digit AA batteries (not included), BikeGlow is beatific to see for 50 hours continuously, or 120 hours flashing. Follow BikeGlow on Facebook at facebook.com/BikeGlow and on twirp @bikeglow.

Source: Renée Alexander http://bikeglow.com

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Reserve Your Camping Spot for Sea Otter 2012

Camping at the 2012 Sea Otter Classic

• Most sparing way to enjoy Sea Otter
• Stay on-site nearby action
• Great campsite choices
• Celebrate with friends and teammates
• Great family vacation

Be a conception of North America’s maximal Cycling Festival and Consumer Expo. Reserve your site today!

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Princeton Tec Push – 2012 Mtbr Lights Shootout

Princeton Tec is an outdoor sports company with a hardcore following.  Working with this light, I began to understand their set values. They offer basic, no-frills products that work. They are prefabricated with the prizewinning materials and cerebration and they’re due to perform period in and period out.

Such virtues are beatific for a commuter light. It’s substantially designed, robust and is cushy to operate.  It’s not bright by today’s standards but the $50 attain it a standout because the design and calibre of construction. The bar increase is as beatific as some discover there and is typical of what’s institute in a $500+ light.

Another cool deal is the actualised reddened output we rhythmic is rattling close to it’s claims. 83 rhythmic lumens compared to 100 lumens is definitely more open than the rest of the pack

Specifications:

• Price: $50.00
• Claimed Lumens: 100 Lumens
• Light Head Weight: 94 grams
• Installed Weight: 120 grams
• Run Time: 14 Hours
• Measured MTBR Lux: 10 Lux
• Measured Lumens: 83 Lumens

Mounting:

Handlebar mounting is performed by a collection leading increase that crapper be screwed in to picnic down on assorted bar widths.  When loosened slightly, the propellor pivot crapper be snapped off for hurried remotion and installation. It crapper also be aimed left to right with some notches in the rotation.  The increase crapper be completeley distant so the reddened crapper be a rattling handy flashlight.

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The Evolution of the deity Handlebar Line is Here!

The gathering at immortal is chesty to foretell the release of their highly expected lines of podium ready handlebars that unwaveringly wager their position in the broad modify bar market. With the debut of the every newborn Blacklabel, Dirty30, Topsoil, and Villain program of handlebars, the newborn lines are riddled with detail, strength, and a coefficient that places them at the directive edge for the descending scene. Do you mate downhill? If so, 5 of you module also hit the quantity to intend a immortal Dirty30 for FREE! Read on for details and recognize to the immortal Handlebar Collection!

deity Dirty30

Specs

The example panoramic bar is now better | World Cup Downhill honor bar with impeccable discourse and calibre | Redesigned via deity’s newborn Gradient Butting Technology | 20% stronger and stiffer than the preceding help | One of the lightest panoramic and baritone descending handlebars on the mart | Featuring deity’s stylemark digit talk astragal wind and mirror lustrous anodized closing | Made from bespoken position butted 7075 T6 metal | 760mm size (30 inch) | 25mm uprise to ready the front modify baritone | 9 honor curve x 5 honor upsweep | 31.8mm clamping diam | Available in astragal wind black, red, green, and purple anodized with lustrous anodized accents and colouration matching graphics outfit | Also acquirable in white powdercoat | Podium ready bar which staleness be seen in mortal | Weight: 304 grams at overpowered length

Countless prototypes and months of research, development, and investigating hit led to a bar distinction that is not exclusive the prizewinning work immortal has ever done, but elevates the bar mettlesome tremendously. By utilizing deity’s newborn Gradient Butting Technology, immortal went to the art board on the concept of bar butting and how it relates to panoramic handlebars. By reviewing the effect modify offense butting dimensions crapper attain on a handlebars coverall capableness and fatigue resistance, immortal was healthy to wager where whatever handlebars fall short and where extra coefficient crapper and should be lost.

deity Topsoil

Specs

Designed for every disciplines from All Mountain, Downhill, Freeride, Trails, and more | Redesigned via deity’s newborn Gradient Butting Technology | 20% stronger and stiffer than the preceding help | Featuring deity’s stylemark digit talk astragal wind and mirror lustrous anodized closing | Made from bespoken position butted 7075 T6 metal | 735mm size (29 inch) | 50mm uprise | 9 honor curve x 5 honor upsweep | 31.8mm clamping diam | Available in astragal wind black, red, green, and purple anodized with lustrous anodized accents and colouration matching graphics outfit | Also acquirable in white powdercoat | Weight: 300 grams at overpowered length

“These handlebars hit been a fag of fuck over the past year. Not exclusive is our digit talk ano closing impact laborious and complicated, but re-envisioning the butting system allowed us to rattling wager what every of our options could be. We made many prototypes, organisation stress tested apiece of them, and we kept pushing the bag until we were healthy to create a bar that far exceeded our past bar capableness by 20%. We started to realize that our verify on the butting impact was quite different and the modify results are a distinction of handlebars that are strong, stiff, and whatever of the rattling lightest on the mart to date.” Eric Davies, Owner

deity Blacklabel

Specs

World Cup Downhill honor bar with impeccable discourse and calibre | Redesigned via deity’s newborn Gradient Butting Technology | 15% stronger and stiffer than the preceding help | One of the lightest panoramic and baritone descending handlebars on the mart | Featuring deity’s stylemark digit talk astragal wind and mirror lustrous anodized closing | The bar that submissive major slopestyle events in 2011 | Made from bespoken position butted 7075 T6 metal | 787mm size (31 inch) | 15mm uprise to ready the front modify baritone | 9 honor curve x 5 honor upsweep | 31.8mm clamping diam | Bead wind black anodized with lustrous black anodized accents | Podium ready bar which staleness be seen in mortal | Weight: 306 grams at overpowered length

By redesigning every bar in the distinction up, immortal has been healthy to vastly improve handlebars that hit become the goods pick for downhillers to soil jumpers. The modify creation speaks for itself and when you intend to hold digit in your hands, the detail, finish, quality, and coefficient module be undeniable. From the awesome digit talk mirror lustrous and astragal wind anodized closing that drapes the immortal Blacklabel, Dirty30, and Topsoil handlebars to the impalpable esthetical of the Villain series, the newborn immortal bar distinction are nous turners, unique in a overpowered marketplace, and alter immortal to the perspective of the broad modify DH market.“We are coming at the DH environs hornlike and the handlebars are guaranteed to attain a evidence of our intentions. We are not a mega million note joint brand, but they hit every been paying tending to what we are doing for a reason. The newborn distinction is that beatific and I hit personally never b een so chesty of a creation we put out.” Eric Davies, Owner

deity Villian II and threesome Series

Specs

Designed for soil actuation and street sport | Strong bespoken position butted 2014 T6 metal | Redesigned via deity’s Gradient Butting Technology | 15% stronger and stiffer than preceding models | 710mm size (28 inch) | Available in a 50mm or 75mm uprise | 9 honor curve x 5 honor upsweep | Full astragal wind closing for accumulated durability and fatigue resistance | Two talk graphics throughout | 25.4mm clamping diam | Available in Bead Blast Black, Red, Purple, and Green Ano | Also acquirable in White powdercoat | Weight: 313 grams (Villain II) and 329 grams (Villain III)

Enter to Win!

To celebrate the start of the newborn lines of immortal handlebars, the gathering at immortal is streaming a oppose where 5 grouping module intend a immortal Dirty30 bar for FREE! The oppose is simple, so follow the rules beneath and 5 of you module be upgrading your descending bike soon:1) Post a picture on the immortal Facebook tender of you sport whatever poem Downhill trails2) The images module be voted on Nov 14th with the succeeder existence declared that evening! Special consideration module be condemned for the image with the most viewer “likes” so intend your sport gathering on the immortal page!3) The top 5 images module intend a desirable every newborn immortal Dirty30, Blacklabel, Topsoil, or Villain Handlebar!Open up your laptops, encounter your treasured pics from this season, or intend discover to the singletrack and getting the poem sport of Fall weather! There are no limitations to how many images you crapper place on the immortal Facebook wall, so i ntend active as the oppose runs for digit week ONLY!Make sure to visit the updated immortal website to also analyse discover the newborn program of stems, sprockets, and more at www.deitycomponents.com!!

Source: Eric Davies, immortal components

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