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7-15-08 // Tested: Fox TALAS 32 RLC
07.15.2008 //
FOX TALAS 32 RLC $725 800-369-7469; FOXRACINGSHOX.COM I was smitten with this fork before I ever put it on a bike. With 140 millimeters of buttery-smooth action that lowers into a 120- or 100-millimeter setting at the flip of a switch, what’s not to love? On paper, it’s perfect—and in practice, it wasn’t far off. [...]
Previewed: Santa Cruz Nomad “Redux”
07.15.2008 //
The Santa Cruz Nomad frame design broke new ground by practically defining the “all-mountain” category of mountain bike. Now Santa Cruz has redesigned the Nomad using many of the same revisions that we saw them use on the new Blur LT (TESTED HERE). The Virtual Pivot Point (VPP) revision results in a flatter shock rate, [...]
Previewed: Avid Elixir CR Disc Brakes
07.09.2008 //
Avid introduced the all-new Elixir R disc brake at April’s Sea Otter Classic event. The Elixir R lacked the contact adjust feature pioneered by the Juicy model so it was easy to predict additional Elixir models would follow. Avid is now introducing the Elixir CR model with tool-free pad contact and reach adjustment. The Elixir [...]
Previewed: GT’s 2009 Lineup From Livigno
06.26.2008 //
The radical new carbon fiber Fury downhill bike from GT Bicycles will undoubtedly stir up lots of controversy, but there are lots of other GT bikes being released here in Livigno, Italy that we can actually ride. Here’s an overview of the new GT quiver. Force The Force premiered a year ago as the big [...]
Previewed: GT Fury Downhill Race Bike
06.25.2008 //
The single biggest news from the GT Bicycles 2009 product release, currently underway in Livigno, Italy, is the new Fury downhill bike. Kept under wraps until its unveiling yesterday, the new all-carbon fiber monocoque-framed machine will replace the DHi model currently being sold by GT. The most important point about the frame that GT engineers [...]
Tested: Casio G’zOne Type S
06.24.2008 //
WHAT: Casio G’zOne Type S HOW MUCH: $150 w/ 2-year contract (MSRP $270) WHERE: CASIOGZONE.COM It’s been nearly a year since I dropped my Motorola Razr off a chairlift in Canada. I remember it well: I was rooting through my backpack for something, Whistler’s late-summer Crankworx festival was booming at the base of the mountain, [...]
Bike Magazine 15.3 June 2008
05.14.2008 //
Still Life Last summer former NORBA dual-slalom and downhill champion Tara Llanes crashed while competing at a Jeep King of the Mountain race in Colorado, breaking five vertebrae in her back. The accident left her paralyzed from the waist down, but she promised to walk again. Tara attacked her rehab with the same intensity she [...]
Reviewed: The Collective’s 3rd Film, Seasons
05.14.2008 //
Without much debate, it is safe to say that that the movies The Collective and Roam are two of the most popular and influential mountain bike films of all time. These films tapped into the psyche of our diverse culture and resonate with both old school soul riders and the new gondola-riding generation. These films [...]
Previewed: Tomac DB10 Limited Edition
05.02.2008 //
It’s easy to get swept away by all the excitement and technospeak that surrounds full suspension mountain bike designs. There are a lot of exciting bikes on the market these days. But while I was cruising the pits at last month’s Sea Otter Classic, one model stopped me in my tracks. It was steel, didn’t [...]
Previewed: 2009 Shimano Saint M810
04.25.2008 //
Shimano Saint components have been around since 2004 and since that time have become renown for their strength and reliability under extreme use. It’s very exciting then to announce the second generation of Saint. Shimano has given the group a complete top-to-bottom redesign taking into account current riding trends in aggressive mountain biking. Mountain bikers [...]
Previewed: Diamondback Scapegoat
04.24.2008 //
Diamondback’s Knuckle Box suspension design, used on their Mission and Sortie mountain bikes, is being expanded into the slopestyle and all-mountain arena with a new and very limited edition bike called the Scapegoat. Originally a concept bike developed for Interbike, the production models were created as interest in the show model increased. The Scapegoat’s frame [...]
Previewed: Kona’s New “Magic Link” Bike
04.11.2008 //
Brian Berthold, the man behind Therapy Components, which makes custom floating brake arm kits for full-suspension bikes, has teamed up with Kona this year to develop the brand new, highly unorthodox “Magic Link” bike. The platform appears on new CoilAir models and the premise is simple: When climbing or pedaling on flat ground, the bike [...]
Reviewed: Crumpler Famous Wine Bar
03.21.2008 //
WHAT: Crumpler Famous Wine Bar WHERE: www.crumplerbags.com HOW MUCH: $150 You don’t have to be a wine snob to enjoy the Famous Wine Bar bag from Crumpler. The FWB can carry a lot of stuff – two twelve packs alone easily slide into the 1,647 cubic inches of storage space in the main compartment. And [...]
Previewed: Shimano’s New SLX Group
03.19.2008 //
After making significant changes to XT and XTR, Shimano has begun trickle down their component kung fu to more affordable groups. The new SLX group was recently introduced, which is designed to replace both LX and Hone. LX has not been eliminated, but has been overhauled to target the European trekking crowd so you aren’t [...]
Previewed: e.13 Direct Mount Bashguards
03.06.2008 //
e.thirteen continues to push the envelope of product development with the release of more groundbreaking products for 2008. e.thirteen is proud to announce the worldwide aftermarket availability of its direct mount bashguard technology. Over the past several years, e.thirteen has worked along with some of the world’s top riders to develop and refine their worldwide [...]
Previewed: Freelap Timing Comes To America
03.05.2008 //
TerraLogic Park Industries, operators of Diablo Freeride Park in Vernon, New Jersey, announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership with Swiss timing innovators, Freelap SA to be the United States distributor of the unique Freelap product line. The Freelap Timing System is hailed by many as an innovative tool that is revolutionizing performance [...]
Previewed: SRAM Teases Reba and Colors
02.29.2008 //
The Sea Otter Classic this April 17-20 already promises to be chock full of new product goodness. SRAM has even decided to give everyone a sneak peak at some of the hardware they’ll be debuting. Rockshox plans to show off a new Reba fork that should be noticeably lighter than the current design. It’s expected [...]
Previewed: Santa Cruz Blur LT 2
02.22.2008 //
There are plenty of people willing to claim that the existing Blur LT is the best bike ever made. But none of them work at Santa Cruz. As soon as the current model was released in 2005, engineers went to work picking it apart, dissecting it, and concocting an even better machine. The agent of [...]
Previewed: Cannondale Rize and Moto
02.20.2008 //
After nearly two years of planning, Cannondale last weekend called a global summit in Gran Canaria to announce the release of two new bikes—the 130-millimeter travel Rize and the 160-millimeter Moto. The two new platforms split duties of what Cannondale has identified as “all-mountain” and “big-mountain,” and the long-awaited additions round out the company’s full-suspension [...]
Previewed: Riding SLO with WTB and Rocky Mountain
02.06.2008 //
For a photo gallery of images from this trip go HERE One’s Canadian, the other American, but Rocky Mountain Bicycles and WTB are two companies with a lot in common. For starters, each has been around for more than 25 years—an impressive run considering the sport of mountain biking isn’t much older than that. Both [...]
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