Apr. 22, 2008
J.J. Haedo's race winning Cervelo
You don’t need to tell J.J. Haedo to harden up — he’s tough enough; he’s racing in Georgia with a broken wrist. He’s got a little extra tape on his bars to soften the ride as well as on his wrist as a brace, but that’s it. He’s a tough ...
Apr. 22, 2008
Tech Report with Lennard Zinn - What's the next big thing?
People constantly ask me, “What do you see as the next big innovation coming with road bikes?”
Their eyes tend to glaze over if I reply with any of the incremental improvements that every bike show or exhibition, like last week’s Sea ...
Apr. 21, 2008
Sea Otter Tech Report: That's a wrap
Rather than sitting on their hands after a couple of years of furious product development, SRAM engineers have been hard at work coming up with more new stuff for road, mountain and triathlon bikes.
Avid Elixir
Paul Kantor and his team ...
Apr. 21, 2008
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 ...
Apr. 21, 2008
Team Cannondale-Vredestein's Cannondale Scalpel: the bike that won the Cape Epic
The climax of South Africa’s 2008 Absa Cape Epic mountain-bike race came in the final kilometers of stage 5, a hot, dusty 146km slog from Swellendam to Bredasorp on April 2.
Belgian Roel Paulissen rode the rim of a Mavic Crossmax SLR rear ...
Apr. 21, 2008
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.
The new thru-axle ...
Apr. 20, 2008
Sea Otter Tech Report, Day 3
Technical writer Lennard Zinn is canvassing Sea Otter for tidbits — today he comes back with (among other things), three different ways on one team to devise a 2X9 system on a cross country bike.
Apr. 20, 2008
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 ...
Apr. 19, 2008
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 ...
Apr. 18, 2008
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 ...
Apr. 18, 2008
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, ...
Apr. 17, 2008
Carbon Wars: Lew sues Edge over "secret process"A Nevada court has delayed ruling on a request by the owners of Lew Racing to bar competitor Edge Composites from displaying or selling products that Lew alleges were made using a “secret process” it developed.
Paul Lew and Lee Vaccaro, the ...
