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Review: X-Fusion Hilo
X-Fusion Hilo $250 xfusionshox.com Over the past few years it has become increasingly difficult for me to ride comfortably without a height-adjust seatpost. On both rough and smooth trails, height-adjust seatposts allow me to bunny hop higher, pump harder through rollers, dips and berms and to lean the bike more aggressively into corners without messing [...]
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Shimano M530 Pedal Review
05.15.2012 // 1 Comment
By: Ryan LaBar Shimano M530 Pedal $65 bike.shimano.com I was about half way to the airport and already running a little bit late when I realized that I had forgotten my pedals. I even left them next to my helmet and clip-less shoes, both of which I remembered, the night before so I would not [...]
Hayes Components Introduces New Offerings for 2012 Season
05.02.2012 // 0 Comments
Hayes has made some key adjustments to its product line for the 2012 season, introducing new technology designed to make brake tuning idiot-proof and stiffening up one of its best-selling forks.
Long Live the King
03.29.2012 // 0 Comments
Way back in 1990, Greg Herbold won the inaugural UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Championships on his Grip Shift-equipped Miyata mountain bike.
Preview: Niner Flat Top RDO Handlebar
02.09.2012 // 1 Comment
Niner’s RDO Flat Top Carbon Bar is the latest addition to Niner’s RDO carbon component lineup. At 710-millimeters, the bar hits the scales at 156 grams—not too shabby—for a weight savings of 30 grams over the original carbon Flat Top. And, Niner actually promises that the claimed weight and actual weights are right on par [...]
Syncros Through the Years
01.11.2012 // 4 Comments
Syncros is one of the most iconic component manufactures in mountain biking. It has also changed hands more times than a hot potato. Scott Sports is the most recent set of hands to hold the Syncros name (Scott Sports purchased Syncros earlier this year).
Fresh: Answer DH Stem
12.21.2011 // 0 Comments
Answer DH Stem $70 / answerproducts.com Answer Products’ lightweight (150-gram) direct-mount DH stem is crafted from 7075-series aluminum and features a wide faceplate for maximum stiffness and even clamping force. What’s more, the innovative stem possesses three offset positions (45, 50 and 55 millimeters), enabling you to fine-tune your cockpit.
Fresh: Giant Contact Switch
12.08.2011 // 0 Comments
Giant Contact Switch $250 / giant-bicycles.com Giant’s Contact Switch post offers infinite travel adjustment and 4 inches of total drop. The post is available in the increasingly common 30.9 seatpost diameter and sells for about a hundred bucks less than the competition. Despite the checking account-friendly price tag, the Contact Switch packs the goods, which [...]
Fresh: Renthal Fatbars
11.27.2011 // 0 Comments
Renthal Fatbars $90 / renthalcycling.com Renthal has gained quite the reputation in the moto world for making durable, high-quality parts designed, developed and manufactured at its facilities in Stockport, England. The company’s Fatbars come in at 780-millimeters wide (with cut lines down to 680-millimeters) and three different rises. The 38-millimeter rise versions, shown here, weigh in at a respectable 365 grams (claimed).
Fresh: Answer Products Rove FR Pedals
11.20.2011 // 0 Comments
Answer Products Rove FR Pedals $80 / answerproducts.com The Rove FR is Answer Products’, er, answer to the growing rider demand for flat pedals that don’t weigh a ton or smack into every possible root and rock on the planet. The aluminum platform is just 16-millimeters thick, nicely concave and loaded with 10 hex pins per side. Weight? An impressive 467 grams.
Fresh: Truvativ Noir T40 Riser Bar
11.18.2011 // 1 Comment
Truvativ Noir T40 Riser Bar $172 / truvativ.com Truvativ’s lightest riser bar to date now comes in a 700-millimeter width and weighs a scant 190 grams. The T40 is made from unidirectional carbon fiber and sports a “traction finish” in the stem-clamp area to help minimize slippage. The bar sports a nine-degree back-sweep and five-degree up-sweep and is available in both 15- and 30-millimeter-rise versions.
Fresh: Chromag Moon Saddle
11.17.2011 // 0 Comments
Chromag Moon Saddle $130 / chromagbikes.com The company originally known for burly-as-hell hardtails continues to broaden its product line, as evidenced by the lightweight (240-gram) and low-profile Moon saddle. The Moon features a seamless leather top, light foam padding, titanium rails and a drop nose to aid those fore-and-aft weight shifts.
Fresh: Syncros FRIC Stem
11.09.2011 // 0 Comments
Most freeride-worthy stems are as light as elephants and as svelte as bricks. And then there’s the new FRIC: a mere 123 grams of industrial-design sexiness. Though the sleek FRIC is weight-weenie light, Syncros claims its new stem is also big-hit tough, thanks to its forged construction and innovative clamp design.
Race Face Is Back On The Map
09.14.2011 // 1 Comment
After recently closing its doors this past March, Race Face has been brought back by a couple of its own employees. Securing enough money from outside investors to buy back the company from bank, the company has re-enterd the industry with nary a hiccup. Here’s a look at some of their lineup for the coming [...]
First Impressions: 2012 Shimano Deore XT
06.23.2011 // 4 Comments
By: Kevin Rouse Last week the folks at Shimano took the time to herd a group of journalists around Lake Tahoe and let us get our hands on the 2012 Deore XT M780 groupset for the first time. While first impressions aren’t everything, we can definitely say we were quite pleased. In fact, nearly all [...]
Acros A-GE: Fully-Hydraulic Shifters and Derailleurs
05.06.2011 // 0 Comments
Words: Ryan LaBar Photos: Anthony Smith and Ryan LaBar Video: Ryan LaBar Acros showed up to this year’s Sea Otter with quite the shocker–a fully hydraulic shifter and derailleur system dubbed A-GE. The A-GE kit comes in about 175-grams lighter than Shimano’s XTR system. It’s not cheap though–the full kit will run you somewhere about [...]
The Closest Thing to Perfection
03.28.2006 // 0 Comments
WHAT: Seven Custom Ti Stem HOW MUCH: $350 WHERE: www.sevencycles.com While most of us can’t afford to shell-out more than $2,000 for one of Seven’s meticulously crafted frames, we can reach for a more attainable goal—the company’s new Custom Ti Stem. I know, 350 bucks is a boatload of money, but it’s the closest thing [...]
Toby’s Svelte Bar
08.05.2005 // 0 Comments
WHAT: THE Flight bar-stem WHERE: www.the-industries.com HOW MUCH: $400 When you think of bike parts with sex appeal, certain bits come to mind: ultra-light XC wheelsets, carbon cranksets, disc brakes. Chances are, its not images of gleaming stems and handlebars that dance in your head like proverbial sugarplums. But take one look at THE’s Flight [...]
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