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Friday Five: Setup
This weekend, before setting out on your ride, spend five minutes going over your bike, checking the dials, presets, and science tubes that adore your all terrain vehicle. It might save your cherished and long awaited ride.
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The Closest Thing to Perfection
03.28.2006
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
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 [...]
Big Earl Goes for Burl
07.09.2005
WHAT: Bontrager Big Earl Bar & Stem WHERE: www.bontrager.com HOW MUCH: $60 (stem); $80 (bar) Oversized exudes that feeling of confidence and strength the way only oversized can. Like Paola Pezzo’s quads, Pamela Anderson’s boobs, a Dodge Power Wagon’s hemi engine…oversized is good, especially when rocking the oversized airs and gnarl of the world. Bontrager’s [...]
Big, Wide and Ever-so-Carbon-ey
05.30.2005
WHAT: Bontrager Race XXX Lite OS Carbon Riser WHERE: www.bontrager.com HOW MUCH: $130 The latest craze in handlebars is sort of a two-headed fashion beast: oversize mid-sections and carbon fiber construction. Bontrager has conveniently wrapped up both trends in a single handlebar. The Race XXX Lite OS Carbon Riser is Bontrager’s top of the line, [...]
A Post for the Do-Anything Bike
02.28.2005
WHAT: Race Face Atlas seatpost WHERE: raceface.com HOW MUCH: $54 Atlas is Race Face’s upper-end “All Mountain” component group. All Mountain, for those of you who (understandably) refuse to pay much attention to the latest marketing lingo, is shorthand for “Lighter than full-on freeride gear, but a little burlier than the garden variety, cross-country racer [...]
Tested: Cane Creek Double Xc
02.09.2005
WHAT: Cane Creek Double Xc (conversion) headset WHERE: canecreek.com HOW MUCH: $95 First off, this is a bit of a specialty item. Cane Creek’s Double Xc headset enables riders with 1.5-inch headtubes to run suspension forks with the more conventional 1-1/8 inch steerer tubes. Folks, in turn, who have 1.5-inch headtubes are either people who [...]
On Our Radar: Selle San Marco Azoto MTB
01.14.2005
WHAT: Selle San Marco Azoto MTB Gel Saddle WHO: Selle San Marco/www.sellesanmarco.com HOW MUCH: $90 Most of the reviews you’ll find on BIKEMAG.COM are just that—reviews. You know, stuff we’ve personally been riding for a few months or more. We are, however, also debuting a new column called “On Our Radar”. These are products that [...]
Tested: Hopey Steering Damper
12.05.2002
VITALS Hopey Steering DamperCost: $220Weight: 140 gramsContact: 724-449-9305,
Gear: Chris King NoThreadSet
05.29.2002
Steeped in 25-year history, Chris King headsets are with out doubt the finest in existence. And, how can you argue with a 10-year warranty? That’s right. Ten years of guaranteed performance. As one of the pioneers of threadless headsets, King offers all standard sizes as well as Devolution, which allows 1 .25″ headtubes to accept [...]
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