Stories by Matt Pacocha

• Posted: Mon, Apr 21st
  Ivan Dominguez pilots a unique bike to Georgia stage win
  Ivan Dominguez won stage 1 of the 2008 Tour of Georgia on a unique bike, built with Fuji’s Aloha CF1 carbon fiber time-trial frame mated to the brand’s standard FC-330 road fork. VeloNews technical editor Matt Pacocha managed to check out the bike before Dominguez ...
• Posted: Mon, Apr 21st
  Fox's 2009 mountain bike suspension lineup
  Fox has a slew of improvements to its product line for 2009, but two stand apart: A remote lockout for the F80, 100, 120 RL forks and a new thru-axle standard called 15QR, which is an option for all of its 32mm stanchion forks.
• Posted: Sun, Apr 20th
  Travis Brown's custom Trek comes home.
  It might surprise you to find out just what it takes to build a one-off bike. Travis Brown can sure tell you. The Trek test rider and product developer lost one after last year’s early fall single-speed world championships. Trek built Brown a custom polished one of a ...
• Posted: Sat, Apr 19th
  Sea Otter Tech Report, day 2
  As the Sea Otter Classic swings into full force in addition to people pouring in for the festival and the races kicking into gear, there proved to be no shortage of new stuff to see. The weather is holding, which is always a question in April on the Monterey Peninsula, so ...
• Posted: Fri, Apr 18th
  New Bontrager mountain bike shoes at Sea Otter
  Trek development rider Travis Brown was at the Trek team truck at the Sea Otter Classic sporting a never-before-seen set of white and red Bontrager mountain bike shoes. The shoes have a large RXL logo on the middle strap that threw many for a loop. "People keep asking me ...
• Posted: Fri, Apr 18th
  A Swiss group, along with some company managers, buy Pedro's USA back from Swix
  A Swiss investment group, along with some of the company's managers, is buying Pedro's USA back from Swix Sport USA, the ski company that has owned Pedro's for the last decade. Sport adventures International S.A., based in Lausanne, Switzerland, teamed with managers to buy ...
• Posted: Fri, Apr 18th
  The Sea Otter Tech Report, day 1
  With the world’s best racers descending upon Houffalize, Belgium, for the World Cup opener, the Sea Otter Classic needed to supplement this year’s world class downhill races with something extra to keep the event growing. For the Sea Otter, now in its 18th year, the ...
• Posted: Mon, Apr 14th
  Fox's race program feeds its development cycle.
  Fox doesn’t have a fancy name for its somewhat sheltered race product program. It’s simply called the Fox Race Development Program, and it does just that. It takes Fox’s current products and pushes them to limits that can only be achieved by the best riders in the world, ...
• Posted: Fri, Apr 11th
  Roubaix Tech: Silence-Lotto chooses cyclocross frames
  With weather reports calling for chances of precipitation ranging from 20- to 61-percent for Sunday’s race, Silence-Lotto isn’t taking any chances. The team’s eight Roubaix riders prerode with purpose-built X-Fire carbon cyclocross bikes on the course Thursday. The ...
• Posted: Thu, Apr 10th
  Bike Tech: Tubular tires, a four-part video tutorial
  In this four-part video tutorial, VeloNews Tech Editor Matt Pacocha walks us through the procedures involved in properly gluing tubular tires. Part 1: Tools, preparation & removing the old ...
• Posted: Thu, Apr 10th
  You can own wheels like Cipo, Pippo and Zabel
  You’re saying there’s a chance? Well, when there was, Mario was ready to turn some heads. Carbon Sports, the manufacturer of Lightweight wheels, was commissioned to build Rock Racing's Mario Cipollini something special for Milan-San Remo, but when Cipo and Rock Racing ...
• Posted: Sat, Mar 29th
  Adam Craig's Beijing rig
  The Beijing Olympic mountain bike course is punctuated by short, steep, smooth climbs that favor a powerful rider like Giant’s Adam Craig. The descents on the Chinese course, too, are smooth. It’s the sort of terrain that doesn’t offer advantage to Craig’s Anthem ...