The bolt holding the chainstay box in position looks elegant, fits neatly behind the bottom bracket, and is easy to access to change chainstay length.
The bolt at the top of the seatstays allows the Tranny rear end to pivot to change chainstay length. Unscrewing this bolt and the chainstay box bolt separates the frame into two halves so that it, too, can fly in a small Ritchey or S&S travel case.
Fizik makes perforated bar tape matching the perforated center stripe on its 225-gram K:ium-rail Arione saddles.
Brooks has a new basket and roll-up rear panniers. The panniers roll down and have a magnetic flap closure. The basket is lightweight tubular aluminum with a leather handle and wooden bottom.
Dario Pegoretti is battling cancer, and this get-well poster for him is centered around a caricature of the Italian framebuilder cooking the crab (representing, of course, his cancer) over a flame on a bike fork. Keep Dario in your thoughts.
Mavic’s answer to Lightweight, ADA and Lew: the Cosmic Carbone Ultimate. Weighing only 1120 grams/pair (520g front; 600g rear), it sells for $3,000/pair and is worth buying Mavic’s MP3 no-questions-asked warranty for.
Prologo has a rail-less saddle and offers cradles to fit various seatposts that will grab the grooved saddle base. The saddle is still suspended at the front and rear, despite having no rail.
Hed’s new Vantage 8 aero bar weighs a mere 490 grams complete with extensions and elbow pads that swing up out of the way when grasping the bar near the stem. The name refers to eight different adjustments.
Hed’s little 3rd brake lever attaches to the shifter. It can come attached to either the left or right bar-end shifter, in either Shimano or Campagnolo.
Hed’s 3rd lever installed onto a rear shifter and into the right extension.
Devin Lenz built an entire chairlift chair including the pad in order to demonstrate how easy the Lenz Sport Ski Bike is to load on the chair.
Former Sweet Parts founder and designer Craig Edwards may have hit a home run with his new superlight (100 grams), easily adjustable and powerful EEBrake.
See the little M5 bolt on the left just in front of the fork? Loosen that with a 4mm hex key, pull the brake lever so the brake clamps onto the rim, and retighten the bolt. Voilá. The brake is centered and stays that way.
Only half of the pad-height adjustment is on the slotted arms, thus avoiding a large drop in leverage with long pad reach. The other half of the adjustment is the eccentric M6 center bolt offset from the big 3/8” center bolt on which the brake pivots
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Vervecken, big women's payout highlight Super Cross CupThe Whitmore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup October 6-7 in Southampton, New York, will sport a couple of touches American cyclo-crossers don’t see every day — world champion Erwin Vervecken, and a women’s field that’s racing for more money than the rainbow jersey and the rest of the guys. The latest 'cross videofrom VeloNews.com:Excel Sports CrossVegasMen's race and interviewsWomen's race and interviews Vervecken, who last raced in America in 2003, in the Pacific Northwest, acknowledges the growth of U.S. ‘cross since
Erik Zabel looks set to return to T-Mobile next season after announcing on Monday that he will finish his contract with Milram when the season concludes at the end of the month. The 37-year-old was with Telekom, T-Mobile's previous name, from 1993 to 2005, but has spent the last two seasons at Milram. And it has been a difficult year for Zabel, a six-time winner of the Tour de France's green jersey, who admitted last May to taking the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO) during the 1996 Tour. In Munich on Monday, Zabel said he will finish with Milram a year earlier than
Paolo Bettini shot back at critics and rivals alike in an electrifying five-up sprint victory on Sunday, defending his world championship. The 33-year-old Tuscan gestured as if he were firing a machine gun as he crossed the line in Stuttgart after rocketing past the brawny shoulders of Alexandr Kolobnev, relegating the Russian to second and local rider Stefan Schumacher (Germany) to third. “Everyone’s been shooting at me all week, so I decided to try myself,” said Bettini, who became only the fifth rider in world’s history to successfully defend the rainbow jersey. “It wasn’t directed at
It's all over in Stuttgart, save the stein-hoisting, and our man Casey Gibson was there to chronicle the final day of the 2007 UCI world road championships.
The new boss, same as the old boss
Bettini sprints . . .
. . . he knows he's got it . . .
Take that, you dirty rats! Tat-a-tat-tat!
The peloton, 190 riders strong, on the first lap
Hincapie wasn't having a great day
Jason McCartney working to bring the break back
VandeVelde and Hincapie
The final selection heads for the finish line
The podium
'Scuse me, honey, got to dash. I'll be back in a few hours with a gold medal and a pretty new shirt.
And so he was
Some Discovery fans were in attendance
And Big George took notice, signing autographs
The freshly re-crowned champ sings along with his national anthem
And a weary Julich and McCartney head for the barn
After five days of riding, racing, selling and showing bikes, Interbike concluded Friday in Las Vegas. Watch for the full report in the next issue of VeloNews, but in the meantime, here are a few samples of what we saw on the showroom floor.Leaving Las Vegas - PartIILeaving Las Vegas - PartIII
What had been a tumultuous week for the Italian national team took a sweeping turn for the better Saturday as 20-year-old Marta Bastianelli held off pre-race favorites to win the elite women’s world road championship in Stuttgart, Germany. Italy’s “squadra azzura” has been under fire in recent days as defending men’s champion Paolo Bettini refused to sign the UCI’s voluntary “commitment to a new cycling” pledge, and ProTour leader Danilo Di Luca was taken off the Italian team while facing a suspension for working with doctor Carlo Santuccione. But the Italians, whose national federation
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Defending world champion Paolo Bettini said Saturday that he intends to sue German television station ZDF for accusing him of providing former teammate Patrik Sinkewitz with doping products. ZDF reported that it based its report on statements from Sinkewitz, but the German cyclist later denied mentioning the name of Bettini. Bettini was given the all clear to defend his crown in Sunday's elite men's title at the cycling world championships, despite a bid by organisers to bar him from the competition. Bettini had slammed what he termed "a campaign of denigration of which the town
Many show bikes are just that — bikes for show.
The venerable Italian maker showed a few ’cross bikes.
A carbon mountain bike with Chorus road pedals. As we said — show bikes.
Slipstream-Chipotle’s new ride, the Felt F1.
Sock Guy spells it out for you.
The top of the Fuentes sock.
As in, Shepard Fairey’s experimental “Obey” art project that spread like wildfire
Obey organizers recently contacted Fuji to design this bike.
The new Reveal features a healthy amount of CNC machining for precision cuts and rigidity, such as in the bottom bracket area, the rocker arm and rear dropouts.
Reveal uses Specialized’s four-bar linkage design for 130mm of travel. The rear derailleur cable is routed internally through the seatstay.
The sculpted down tube is for more than aesthetics — the high clearance means the fork crown won’t smack on the frame when things get sideways.
Fuji president Pat Cunnane doesn’t want people to have to wait until they’re fully grown to enjoy road bikes. This $360 rig features 20-inch wheels for kids 5 and up.
And a $380 model with 24-inch wheels bridges the gap up to 650c bikes.
Built up with SRAM Red and Lew wheels, this Jamis show bike topped the scales at just over 11 pounds.
The Dakar XCR Team is fairly unique in the mountain bike world for its use of size-specific carbon tubing. At $6400, the high-end bike is all carbon save for alloy chainstays for chain slap.
The Xenith SL uses braided bladders in its construction, which means fewer internal wrinkles and better compaction and great excavation of the used bladders, which stick to the inside of the tubes. Using this process for 2008 saves 30-40 grams.
The Xenith T2 is the company’s first all-carbon time trial bike, and a solid one at that.
Product manager Steven Fairchild incorporated a Tektro brake inside the rear of the sculpted fork, a design he said reduces drag by 10 percent compared to an aero fork with the brake on the front.
Internal cable routing makes for clean lines.
Tucking a brake inside a fork presents adjustment issues…
That Fairchild solved neatly.
Kestrel’s bold designs will now be supported by the strength of Fuji’s distribution and logistics network.
Kestrel’s bold designs will now be supported by the strength of Fuji’s distribution and logistics network.
Internal routing for the rear brake…
And the rear derailleur
Making a strong move into the power meter market, Quarq is similar to SRM in that it uses strain gauges in the crank spider.
The wireless system only requires replacing the spider on most any crank, then placing a magnet on the frame for cadence sensing and the computer head on the handlebar.
Although the Quarq head unit is robust, Quarq also is compatible with Garmin’s upcoming Edge 705 GPS unit, which features power output among other cycling features.
Rocky Mountain’s ETSX is what Lesley Tomlinson rode to three Trans Alp victories. The rear suspension takes its cues from Formula 1 designs, with its straight up and down rear-wheel vertical travel.
For 2008, the design went from adjustable 3.5/4/4.5 inches of travel, which changes on the fly with the flick of the quick release, to a 4/4.5/5-inch design. Nonetheless, it still weighs in at 28 pounds.
For next year, the Element Team shaved some weight with a hollowed-out yoke. This, combined with carbon seatstays and oversized suspension hardware, saved more than 60 grams.
For next year, the Element Team shaved some weight with a hollowed-out yoke. This, combined with carbon seatstays and oversized suspension hardware, saved more than 60 grams.
The Sola 69’er runs a 26-inch wheel in the rear and a 29-inch hoop up front.
Built for Mike Broderick, this one features an FRM crank, Shimano XTR and SRAM X.O parts and a rigid carbon fork.
Seven doesn’t just built custom bikes for its customers. Product manager Matt O’Keefe built this internally geared commuter for his 18-mile trek to work.
He made this rack with scrap titanium, and added Full Wood fenders from River City Bicycles’ Dave Guettler.