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Clockable Oval Chainrings from Rotor
Oval chainrings are nothing new in the cycling world. In fact, they aren’t even new to the mountain bike side of the sport. We’ve reviewed several of them here on Singletracks over the past couple years. Rotor, a company from Spain, has a slightly different take on the oval chainring with their Q-Rings. The basic …
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Podcast: Sea Otter 2017 Highlights, Trends, and Surprises
Aaron and I talk about the highlights from this year’s Sea Otter Classic. We’ll also discuss the trends, surprises, and new product announcements we learned about at the show.
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Proudfoot Cycles Displays Steel Full Suspension
I’m a sucker for steel bikes, so when I saw a turquoise, steel, full suspension hanging from a stand at Sea Otter, I had to check it out. The bike is from Proudfoot, a new company out of Golden, CO. Husband and wife team, John and Erin Acuff, run Proudfoot. Erin handles the marketing and …
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Vittoria First to Use Graphene in Carbon MTB Rims
Graphene is a modern technology wonder, said to be 200 times stronger than steel and yet extremely flexible and lightweight. Vittoria began experimenting with Graphene as a resin additive and found, “Graphene-enhanced composites have 10~30% improved material properties.” Among those improved material properties, the company found the additive made wheels more laterally stiff and that spoke hole strength …
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$248 Dropper Post and New Cranks from FSA
FSA had their booth jammed full of new products at this year’s Sea Otter. They had a $248 dropper post on hand, a modular crank system, and a wheelset using an asymmetrical rim design. Not only that, FSA dissolved the Gravity brand of big hit components. However, the components themselves will still be available under …
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