“Viewed at a distance, the world of mountain biking is a disjointed network of seemingly similar but disconnected communities. Freeride. Downhill. Big Mountain. All Mountain.…
Deschutes Brewery has released their Chainbreaker White IPA to celebrate cycling and their sponsorship of various cycling events including it’s namesake the Cascade Chainbreaker mountain…
Spot Brand bikes showed off their first-ever aluminum bike, the Acme (above), which was designed by Avid’s original founder and Spot owner Wayne Lumpkin. Besides…
Out of college, jobs weren’t forthcoming, so Alex Webster just started building up some really light wheels for friends and local racers. Now, he’s selling…
Next to the new mountain bike and TT/Triathlon/Cyclocross parts, FSA had some new carbon road wheels and a redesigned chain to go with their forthcoming…
FSA brought out a lot of updated and new mountain bike products for Sea Otter. The colorful polycarbonate-capped headsets above grab the eye first, but…
At this point in the technological history of mountain biking we currently have hydraulic disc and rim brakes, hydraulic fork lock outs, and hydraulic dropper…
Diamondback’s had the Sortie full suspension mountain bike out for a bit, heading up their trail bike department. For 2012, they’ll add a 29er version,…
Foes Racing showed off the Shaver, a work-in-progress trail bike with 5″ to 5.5″ of rear wheel travel that’s adjustable via different shock mounts. The…
Alongside their new Conquest Pro carbon disc brake cyclocross bike, Redline showed off completely redesigned frames for their D-series 29er mountain bikes. The DSixEighty (top)…
Manitou’s Marvel, introduced at Interbike, is the replacement for the long serving Minute XC suspension fork. Designed to bring their forks up to modern spec…
Shimano didn’t waste anytime updating both their XT and XTR groups. Reissued in 2010 with Dynasys and 2×10, IceTech and directional chains, both groups aren’t…
TRP’s highlight was certainly the Parabox cable-to-hydraulic disc brake converter that’s been popping up on bikes like the Felt prototype disc brake carbon cyclocross bike,…
Like the completely revised Black Flag wheels (we reviewed them here), Sun-Ringle’s new A.D.D. tubeless downhill wheels license Stan’s NoTubes rim technology for quick, easy…
Crank Brothers showed off new products and changes that touched virtually every component group they offered, and they introduced a few new ones, too. In…
