Alliance Bicycles – Titanium 29er

Erik Rolf – Alliance Bicycles (Ketchum, ID) builds with Ti and Steel – agency and mtb. Here we wager the Alliance Ti 29er. The inclose is built up with: 100mm fork, full XTR gruppo, Enve XC Wheels. Spectrum painted gloss black panels with albescent logos distinct in silver. The cycle weighs in at 22 lbs.

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This physique features: -Gates Carbon Belt Drive -Rohloff Speed Hub -Pivotless side support design -1.75″ or side travel -King hubs -Pro handlebar -3T stem -Eriksen seatpost -approx 26-27 lbs (complete bike)

More info: alliancebicycles.com/

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Black Cat Bicycles – Singlespeed 29er

Todd Ingermanson is Black Cat Bicycles, a digit Negro shop in Santa Cruz, CA. Todd specializes in singlespeed 29ers with ultimate bikes. This cycle features short chain stays and slackened geometry.

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More info: www.blackcatbicycles.com “santa cruz county, california A digit Negro diversion party.”

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Crank Brothers Kronolog Seatpost Revealed

We had a chance to do whatever great rides with the new Crank Brothers Kronolog descending post. This place is the stylish entry in this essential and combative collection of Dropping or Height Adjustable Seatposts.

Here’s a quick recording reveal we shot on location at the San Juan Trail in Southern California:

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The alive specs on the Kronolog are:

Msrp: $300

Weight:  465g + 28g (30.9mm + remote*), 477g + 28g (31.6mm + remote*)

Travel: 125mm / 5in

Adjustment type: standard mechanical agitate cable

Diameters: 30.9mm and 31.6mm

Warranty : 2 eld with comely maintenance

After a few rides, this is what Mtbr thinks of the Kronolog

Strengths:

• Smooth tumbler state with reddened tumbler obligate required
• Up and downbound state is very uncreased and conformable with bottom effort and stiction.
• No lateral to lateral play at the saddle
• There are unlimited peak positions between set and fivesome inches
• Seatpost raises up alacritous but slows downbound in the terminal inch of movement to prevent harming the rider
• Saddle is locked when downbound so there is no creeping up behavior and the bike crapper be lifted up with the saddle.
• Cable routing is clean with no movement in the cable when seatpost is lowered.
• Cable routing crapper go in face or behind the seapost.
• Seatpost clamp is no equilibrize and is conformable with the statistic with all-mountain bikes
• Fatigue proven to the highest standards
• Maximum movement crapper be low with interior shims

Weaknesses:

• Minimum exposed seatpost peak is broad at 5 inches + 2 inches to allow the traveller to get the flooded 5 inches of  adjustability.  As a workaround, the max peak of the place crapper be low with interior shims.
• There is no local tumbler option available
• No 27.2 mm filler avaialble yet.

Bottom line:

The most essential characteristic of a descending place is uncreased state and ease of use. It has to be rattling easy and conformable to ingest for it to be an trenchant agency in our rides since we ofttimes need it on those ‘oh snap’ moments. The more illogical and hassle-free it is, the more the traveller is likely to ingest the descending post. The Kronolog tumbler is illogical and easy to activate and the seatpost goes up and downbound without such drama.  The state seems rattling precise and uncreased so we conceive this will become a great associate for not exclusive descenders but also interbreed land riders.  Heck, I rattling conceive my kid and my dad would savor biking such more if they had this agency .

We haw very well have a contender here in this coveted and growing category. It’s every a question of durability and reliability now. Crank Brothers has scholarly a ton from their  experience with the Joplin and they’ve taken every  measure to improve and stress test the Kronolog.  It’s every up the disagreeable world of real-world consumer investigating now. From what we’ve seen and proven so far, this looks like a winner.

Here’s a pair informational videos by Crank Brothers featuring Hans Rey.

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Kaboom! SCOTT-3Rox Explode onto Scene

The SCOTT-3Rox Racing gathering got soured to a enthusiastic move for 2012, grabbing two ambo symptom at the Mellow Johnny’s Classic vie flavour opener. Geoff Kabush led the way for the aggroup by racing to a brawny ordinal locate display on the day. Kabush reportedly change beatific and definite to effort both himself and the rivalry from the gun, noting after the race, “I had brawny sensations from the move and wanted to make sure that the pace was high.”

Teammate, Derek Zandstra also produced a brawny result, grabbing his individualized prizewinning on US soil by earning the ordinal spot on the podium. Zandstra stayed with the body for most of the vie explaining, “I was sport strong, but I prefabricated a little nonachievement and the lead assemble got a gap on me.” In spite of his bobble, Derek serviceable pace with the body and was healthy to closing with his ambo placing intact.

Given the rolling, rocky track, both Kabush and Zandstra chose to unstoppered the flavour on their Scale 29 RC vie bikes. “I change that the 29er was the bike for this course,” commented Zandstra after the race.

The Team today gets a taste of a fortuity before incoming motion to South Africa for the prototypal vie on the World Cup calendar in Pietermaritzburg.

SCOTT is today on Instagram; study @scottbikes to wager picturing updates like this one.

Source: physiologist Montgomery

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NAHBS 2012 Award Winners – 2013 Location Announced

Mtbr’s news of NAHBS continued with period digit today and we shot video interviews with 23 builders! The videos module be springy soon. All of the builders were enthusiastic and today’s itemize included names such as Craig Calfee, Steve Rex and Steve Potts. We also interviewed builders from as far away as Italia (Pitz!) and the Czech Republic (Festka). But (with no substance to some of the others) the particular of the period had to be our extensive discourse with none another than the fable himself, blackamoor Ritchey. Stay tuned.

In a modify from the normal routine, Don Walker (found and thinker of NAHBS) declared the majority of Award Winners at 3:30pm today (instead of the usual announcements and exhibit on Sun afternoon). Virtually everyone was in commendation that this was an transformation since it gave the builders meliorate recognition and exhibit attendees could be sure to pay “extra” attention to every the ribbon winners. Awards were given in various divisions with up to 3 winners per category. The winners are:

Materials Division Best poise cerebration â€" Bishop Bikes, Ellis Cycles Best metal cerebration â€" county Eriksen Cycles, Steve Potts Best carbon cerebration â€" Alchemy Bicycle Company Best alternative touchable (bamboo, aluminum, wood, other) â€" Paketa Cycles (Magnesium)

Riding Discipline Division Best municipality cycle â€" Muse Cycles, Ira Ryan Cycles, Shamrock Cycles Best agency cycle â€" Demon Frameworks, Rex Cycles Best elevation cycle â€" Retrotec-Inglis Cycles, Pereira Cycles, Naked Bicycles Best cyclocross cycle â€" Six Eleven Bicycle Co., Moots Best road cycle â€" Rebolledo Cycles Best tandem cycle â€" county Eriksen Cycles Best empiric cycle â€" Negroid Sheep Fabrications, Ti Cycles Fabrications

Construction Division Best lugged inclose â€" Bishop Bikes Best fillet inclose â€" Bishop Bikes Best TIG inclose â€" Negroid Sheep Fabrications

Overall Division Best closing â€" Vendetta Cycles

In addition, the winners of the enterpriser Carbon Drive Frame Design Contest are: 1st Place: Naked Bicycles (tension design) 2nd Place: Inglis 3rd Place: Ti Cycles Fabrication

Four remaining honor winners module be declared tomorrow (Sunday) including: Best of Show People’s Choice Best Rookie of the Show President’s Choice

And the venue for the North dweller Handmade Bicycle Show for 2013 module be Denver, CO.

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