09 Sea Otter: Amaran took second.
09 Sea Otter: Amaran took second.
09 Sea Otter: Amaran took second.
09 Sea Otter: Leipheimer drove the chase, lap after lap.
09 Sea Otter: Leipheimer said he wasn’t bothered about being a one-man team that was heavily marked by Bissell’s machine.
09 Sea Otter: The field over the top of the corkscrew.
09 Sea Otter: Team Type 1’s Christopher Jones and Bissell’s Kirk O’Bee bridge up to Howes, but all three are eventually absorbed by the Leipheimer chase group.
09 Sea Otter: While Howes pursues the break, others are hunting him.
09 Sea Otter: The break on the climb.
09 Sea Otter: Leipheimer leads the chase over the top.
09 Sea Otter: Howes bombs the corkscrew descent.
09 Sea Otter: Jacques-Maynes, Vennell and Amaran over the top of the corkscrew.
09 Sea Otter: Garmin-Holowesko-Felt’s Alex Howes buries himself in an effort to bridge to the three leaders.
09 Sea Otter: Leipheimer rode in the chase group behind.
09 Sea Otter: Colavita’s Luis Amaran, and Bissell’s Jeremy Vennell and Andy-Jacques Maynes drive the winning move to the podium.
09 Sea Otter: Specialized's Burry Stander, Christoph Sauser and Todd Wells charged off the front.
09 Sea Otter: The men's short track blasts off.
09 Sea Otter: Wells was all grins at the finish.
09 Sea Otter: After Stander drove it for him, Wells rode solo to the win.
09 Sea Otter: Kona's Ryan Trebon lead the early pursuit of the Specialized trio, but later faded.
09 Sea Otter: Subaru-Gary Fisher's Sam Schultz rode into fifth
09 Sea Otter: Jeremiah Bishop closed to a close fourth
09 Sea Otter: After Sauser flatted, Giant's Carl Decker muscled into third.
09 Sea Otter: The short track was a rattling, dusty affair
09 Sea Otter: Specialized's Burry Stander, Christoph Sauser and Todd Wells off the front.
09 Sea Otter: The short track blasts off.
09 Sea Otter: Andy Jacques-Maynes delivers
09 Sea Otter: Jacques-Maynes takes it solo
09 Sea Otter: Wells represents the big red S
09 Sea Otter: Batty takes the short track
The filament-wound carbon shafts are internally butted.
Truvativ’s new Noir posts round out the brand’s cockpit line.
Truvativ’s new Stylo stems. The Team level is 3D forged with 7050-alloy, and comes with titanium or stainless hardware, while the Race stems are made from 6061-alloy.
Avid will have 160mm and 185mm CenterLock rotors available for 2010.
Elixir CR Mag bumps Juicy Ultimate from Avid’s top rung.
RedWin, PinkSlip, Nugget, Tango and Cash are your options. Who comes up with these names?
Five new colors for SRAM and Truvativ drivetrain components.
There’s clearance for a 2.4 tire in there.
The Revelation leads RockShox’s lightweight, long-travel charge.
The Ario line shoots for high performance at economical prices.
The Monarch line now has the option of a Dual Air spring.
1990 world downhill champ Greg Herbold and RockShox product manager Sander Rigney run through SRAM’s 2010 suspension components.
The Phlegm-ish Lion (groan…) of the Hakkalügi.
The 55cm Hakkalügi frame weighs 1,100 grams and costs $1,400.
The Hakkalügi will be ready for sale in June.
Ibis has dropouts for the Tranny with derailleur hangers or bottle openers. The design of the bike, with separate front and rear triangles and a slotted fit, allow the bike to be broken down for travel and enough chainstay adjustment to tension a single ring set up without using a horizontal dropout.
Scot Nicol’s Tranny has a new, softer lay-up than the original.
The Mojo SL is available in a new blue.