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Paul Component Engineering: Chain Keeper
March 5, 2010 – 8:30 am | No Comment
Paul Component Engineering: Chain Keeper

If you’ve been around the MTB world long enough, you’ll remember PAUL. Back in the day PAUL made some of the sweetest brakes (pre V-brake) and had his own rear and front mechs. All anno, …

Engin Cycles
March 2, 2010 – 8:45 am | No Comment
Engin Cycles

Mouth watering 953 lugged mountain bike frames by Engine Cycles in the US (note the Edge carbon rims).

We’ll let Engin Cycles tell you about what they do:
“Construction
We are not limited to any one form of …

Speedvagen
March 1, 2010 – 8:30 am | No Comment
Speedvagen

Spotted.
Paint on the Speedvagen Cross Machine by Vanilla Bicycles

Not Cheap
February 24, 2010 – 8:12 am | No Comment
Not Cheap

Saw these a few months ago and the announcement of a new, silly light stem prompted me to look again…
Light, strong, cheap…. pick any two.

83 grams, increased stiffness, not cheap: US$202+

Titanium axle, 3 ring: 507g …

2 x 10
February 22, 2010 – 8:10 am | No Comment
2 x 10

After switching to 1×9 of late, you realise that for an awful lot of mtbing, you really can do without fuss and muck of the traditional 3 x 9 set up. Prior to that I …

Gold bits
February 20, 2010 – 8:17 am | No Comment
Gold bits

News doing the rounds at the moment is that Fox from 2010 has teamed with Japanese company, Kashima, to coat their stanchions in a rather bling gold coating to reduce stiction.
Fox has said:
“Proven Coating Technology
The …

Australian Design: Firefly light
February 19, 2010 – 8:02 am | No Comment
Australian Design: Firefly light

Here’s the second entry in this year’s Australian Design Awards that caught our eye.

Designed by James Morton from the UNSW it’s called the Firefly, and is a very interesting take on the everyday red led …

Nukeproof DH
February 18, 2010 – 8:09 am | No Comment
Nukeproof DH

If you’ve been living in a hole, you might not have noticed that the legendary 90’s brand ‘Nukeproof’ is kicking around again. This time though it’s owned by a bunch of lads over UK way, …

Australian Design: CORE body Armour
February 17, 2010 – 8:55 am | No Comment
Australian Design: CORE body Armour

It’s nice to see some local talent having a go at designing for the bike world. The first of two installments we’ve found in this year’s Australian Design Awards, is called ‘CORE Mountain bike body …

Damn Smart
February 15, 2010 – 8:35 am | No Comment
Damn Smart

Aheadset, simplified to a bunc a base components.

Tektonics Design Group
February 12, 2010 – 8:55 am | No Comment
Tektonics Design Group

Custom Designed trials frames.

Shocker!
February 11, 2010 – 8:10 am | No Comment
Shocker!

Shocker

Wishful thinking
February 10, 2010 – 8:06 am | No Comment
Wishful thinking

Cyclist’s footrest rails as found in Copenhagen.