Fluorescent Yellow Rim Strips*. Not the most exciting part, but an important one. Ours are durable, cheap, and the extra-wide size covers all holes and any nicks or burrs that could come in contact with the tube. I am always looking for rim strips around here, but we are always sold out. Doesn’t really matter what color they are, but we try to pay attention to the details. These will be available in 2 weeks also.
*wheel not included
We’ve been busy round here, hence the lack of updates. This one should be worth it though.
We got a shipment in with a bunch of sweet stuff.
One set of new items is the Seafoam Green Limited line:
Civilian Svelte hi/lo bars
Classic Race/Dirt forks
and the first of the powdercoated “brakeless” rims.
We have to check it all out and ship it, so expect to see it in stores in about 2 weeks.
Rise: 8-1/4″
Width: 28″
Upsweep: 1 degree
Backsweep: 12 degrees
Weight: 1 lb. 12.5 oz.
Colors: Black and Limited
– Butted tubing throughout.
– 41-Thermal Lifetime Guarantee.
Various friends and team riders are on them now.
Available in December/January.
Bar ends should be simple and light. They need to protect your bars from crashes, but they also need to protect you from your bars. With this in mind we have designed our new Par Ends. A super tough, virtually solid, park friendly, plastic bar end. They’re less than an ounce per pair (0.8oz/23g) and will be offered at a very affordable price.
Formed as a single part, Par Ends fit both inside and outside your bars for a solid location. They simply expand outwards to lock into the inside of your bars without leaving any sharp edges exposed.
Par Ends are scheduled to be in shops by early 2007.
We have our first small batch of Evo II brakes. They should be available within the next 2 weeks.
Here are the specs:
– Arms are forged prior to machining for strength and durability.
– Flush surfaces with the lowest possible stack height (just under 21 mm)
– Front or rear wheel use
– A-Brake Pads
– Two sets of springs (hard/soft)
– Spring tension indicators
– Modular cable hardware for multiple set-up options
– Pre-cut straddle cable length to simplify installation (regular Evolver knarps/cable lugs also included)
– New straddle hanger
– Black and Limited Editions
– 6.7 ounces (weight includes brake pads and hardware)
Word.
The new limited color for the JC pedal:
Metallic Orange.
Available now, Worldwide.
This is something I have been asked for for many years. Custom Monkey and Marmoset bolts. Same length and thread as the old stock Monkey and Marmoset 3/8″ bolts but with a head to take a 17mm socket (rather than the old 9/16″). This allows you to use the same socket you use for your cassette hub.
But there is more. We also broached the centre for a 6mm Allen Key.
These will be available soon as spares and will eventually come stock on new hubs sometime in 2007.
OK. Three new entries in one day is my limit….
Well this website has been up for a while with pegs listed under the product section, and this is what we have been working on all that time.
As some people may already know, I have been running “plastic” pegs on my own bike for about the last 6 years now, ever since I put a steel peg through the side of my hand and had to have an operation to fix it.
Plastic pegs have a lot of advantages, they slide faster than steel, titanium or aluminium on any surface. They dont damage coping (so they should help bikers get access to some parks). They are less likely to kill you if they hit you in the back of the head. And of course they are massively lighter.
The Pleg uses a special steel insert that reinforces the end of the Pleg and provides a solid engagement on the dropout, and a replaceable “plastic” sleeve that is cheap and simple to change.
Weight is around 4ounces (112g) per peg, which is about half the weight of a typical steel peg and lighter than most titanium pegs too.
Plegs are the standard 4 inch (100mm) length but are slightly fatter than normal pegs at 42mm (a typical steel peg is 38mm). This extra thickness covers more of the dropout so you ONLY grind Pleg not frame, and helps the pleg get over skate stoppers ….
That’s right, we can actually grind skate-stoppered aluminium rails… and since they wont cause any real damage you dont even need to feel guilty about it.
With Plegs you can look at your streets in a whole new way. Rough concrete ledges, aluminium rails, rails with skate stoppers, wood, pretty much anything is now ridable.
So to the obvious question. Wear.
Yes, Plegs do wear out quicker than steel pegs, but who wants to cart around half a pound of steel you will never use? With normal use a set of Plegs will last a good year or more and when the sleeves get really heavily worn you can simply replace them.
Hopefully these will be available in early 2007.
George
Wham! Just two days since the last entry and here we are back with more!
We showed these babies off at Interbike so it seemed a good time to let everyone get a quick preview of the new GLAND3.
Smaller than the old GLAND but with much bigger cable tie slots and “bobbles” on the inside face which keep the GLAND from slipping about on the wheel and so reduce the stress on the cable ties.
This picture gives you some idea how they compare to the old ones for size:-
We are still in final testing but are shooting for a launch early in 2007.
More To Follow.
Yowzers!
Less than a month has passed since the last entry (and I have been away for 3 weeks of it) and already we have a new Blog entry!!!!
The long awaited RED Marmosets are now shipping to shops along with the Greys that arrived earlier on. So now anyone can recreate this moving scene of a Red and Grey Marmoset mating…
