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The big sprinter relies on Bontrager’s slightly heavier Race X Lite carbon bar, in a 44cm width. He chooses Cateye to keep track of the K’s.

The carbon seat clamp uses two bolts and is sure not to slip.

The seat tube section is massive; also notice the trick Euro-style number holder.

Dominguez’s bike is different from his teammates. He forgoes Fuji’s super light SL-1 frame for a rather unique set up. The Aloha CF1 time-trial frame is both stiffer and more aerodynamic than the road model, the former being the most important attribute to Toyota’s star sprinter. Besides the heavier frame, he opts for Bontrager’s 65mm deep Aeolus 6.5 wheels, where again the story is stiffness and aerodynamics.

Peter Glassford at the 2008 Sea Otter Pro XC race

Early morning poseur attack by Team Orven at Walburg, TX

Robson looking good after one lap as JB signals his next move (Durand, WI Road Race)

Intensity at the Superdrome!!!

Cane Creek is no longer content to cede the high-end headset business to Chris King and has a number of options in the new 110 model for that category, including the $500 wood-inlaid 110 Reserve presented at the North American Handbuilt Bicycle Show.

Another view.

Cane Creek has ceased making road and mountain bike wheels, choosing to focus on its headset and rear shock business. The only wheels it continues to build are carbon track wheels, still employing the nipples at the hub flange.

Ritchey’s new WCS Echelon road pedals take a Look Keo cleat and joins the WCS Peloton pedal, which takes the original Look cleat.

The Ritchey/Syncros single-bolt seatpost clamp is simple and easy to use, as long as the post is on the bike so gravity assists you). As the bolt pulls the clamp ears against the rails from the side (squeezing them against an inboard stop), the lower lips of the clamp ears follow a tapered surface to pull the clamp down against the rails. Three different clamp pieces are available for standard rails and two different dimensions of oversized carbon rails.

Fox and Marzocchi are pushing a new front hub through-axle standard, 15mm X 100mm, which has been adopted by Shimano, Mavic, DT and many other hub and wheel makers. It is intended for the cross-country and all-mountain market; 20mm through-axles remain the standard for big-hit forks. Fox claims it is faster than using a 9mm quick-release axle while being stiffer and very light. RockShox and Manitou have not adopted the 15mm standard.

The Exposure Joystick Maxx helmet bracket screws through a helmet vent hole. The light is a snap to clip on and off.

The $239 Exposure Joystick Maxx light is a small, bright, self-contained, rechargeable Super LED light with a long burn time that clips onto a bar mount or helmet mount. The $399 Exposure Enduro Maxx is three times as bright, being essentially three Joystick Maxx lights packed into a single, self-contained unit. In between is the Exposure Race Maxx with two Super LEDs. Batteries are Li-ion built into the unit. Burn times go from three to 24 hours depending on the setting (or many days on flashing mode!).

Environmentally friendly hip-hop: One guy raps while the other guy pedals to drive the amp and speakers.

Titus Isogrid with BB30.

Titus is one of numerous frame manufacturers adopting BB30, joining Cannondale and Specialized, who have been using it for years. FSA and Truvativ/SRAM are the main crank manufacturers building BB30 cranks.

You can see the large diameter of the shell and the snap-ring grooves on this BB30 shell on a carbon Jamis frame.

Lezyne’s new, long 100-gram frame pump gives the stroke of a framefit pump without the mounting hassles on today’s frames. It contains a pull-out hose to avoid stressing the valve stem while pumping. The 40-gram bottle cage incorporates a groove for the pump and will be available in a carbon option as well.

Ryan Trebon with Chris Zigmont, the new CEO of the newly re-formed Pedro’s. Zigmont and a Swiss investment group, Sports adVentures International S.A. (SaVI) of Lausanne, Switzerland, has purchased Pedro’s from Swix Sport.

There are a lot of stationary sizing cycles out there, but the $2395 Calfee Sizer, designed by Bernie Mikkelsen, allows you to crank the length in or out using the wheel at the end of the long threaded rod while the rider is pedaling. The tape measure clamped to the steerer allows you to see the exact top tube length as it changes, and the handlebar height above the ground is its actual height above the ground on the bicycle. The Purely Custom no-tools quick-change seatpost (spin the saddle to release the saddle clamp to change the tilt or fore aft, and twist it back) and the adjustable-length crank with bubble level are both designed by Jeff Keller.

The styling of the Schwinn Madison track bike recalls the look of Schwinn track bikes of yore.

JHK employs duct tape to minimize play between his shoes and his Crank Brothers Eggbeater pedals. This is in contrast to Travis Brown’s Shoe Goo method.

Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski’s Superfly 29er carbon hardtail has two inner chainrings and a SRAM mountain bike front derailleur. The front derailleur is set too high, due to its long tail otherwise hitting the chainstay. But that allows JHK to switch from a 38T to a 40T large chainring without changing his front derailleur adjustment.

A closer look.

Sam Schultz’s Genesis 2.0 aluminum hardtail has a mountain bike front derailleur like JHK’s, but unlike his two teammates’ bikes, it uses two outer chainrings.

Matt Opperman’s HiFi 29er.

Matt Opperman’s HiFi 29er has a SRAM Rival front derailleur, two inner chainrings and an unanodized version of Bontrager’s new spider.

FSA gave a clinic on BB30, which is an open-source bottom bracket standard started by Cannondale. It features a 30mm spindle and cartridge bearings that press into a huge bottom bracket shell 68mm wide. Snap rings stop the bearings from proceeding too far inboard, and spacers are available for mountain bikes with 73mm bottom bracket shells. This is the new SRAM RED BB30 crank.

Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski’s Superfly 29er carbon hardtail has two inner chainrings and a SRAM mountain bike front derailleur. The front derailleur is set too high, due to its long tail otherwise hitting the chainstay. But that allows JHK to switch from a 38T to a 40T large chainring without changing his front derailleur adjustment.

The major technical difference is the 90mm threadless bottom bracket shell. Brown says that feature may appear on other Trek mountain bikes in the future.