Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
An on going series of bike fitting on a mountain bike. This series has started from myself being fit by one of the owners of Cool Breeze Cyclery, Bruce Guild. Bruce is a well known fitting expert in the South East. Having done thousands of road, tri and TT fits, together we are branching out [...]
Posted in Bike Lab, Fitting, Opinion/Rant | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
This is part of an on going set of reviews on a group of parts that Control Tech sent for review. The first part was on their SUP MT 18SC handlebars.
After some follow up I have learned this are BMX grips and not really designed for how I was riding them. So please take [...]
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Editors Note: This report was filed by Captain Bob, who is testing the Soul Cycles Dillinger for Twenty Nine Inches.
It’s been about a month and a half since we installed the BBB components and San Marco Caymano saddle onto the Soul Cycles Dillinger frame. We have logged a few miles now and wanted to [...]
Posted in Bike Lab, Handlebars, Review, Saddles, drivetrain, headset, single speed, upgrade | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
I attended the 2008 version of Trek World, where Trek brings out all of its new goods for its dealer base to check out. Amongst the surprises was Bontrager’s (Treks component arm) entry into the shoe and apparel market. I’ll cover that here plus a few other newsy tidbits.
With Trek and Nike breaking fellowship, [...]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
This past spring at Sea Otter I had the chance to meet Michael with Control Tech Bikes. He took the time to show me the line up for 2008 from mountain, BMX and road. I was very excited to see them really pushing their aftermarket and not just OEM product. Michael also teamed up with [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Gore Ride On Sealed Low Friction System
MSRP : $50-65
From their site: Completely protected from the elements by
continuous liner [...]
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