Pietermaritzburg World Cup DH// TriRide
Great Coverage of the 2011 World Cup Downhill season opener from Pietermaritzburg, South Africa courtesy of TriRide.
Monthly Archives: April 2011
More from the #epicwheelsize 29″ wheel conspiracy
I’ve always been told that teasing is a “defense mechanism”… I guess then I am “defending” myself against the hoards of people with bigger wheels than mine ;) It this doesn’t make you laugh on a Tuesday afternoon them I’m not sure what will… Enjoy!
29″ Wheels for Downhill?
With the 29er bikes the hot topic of discussion at the moment after cleaning up at the Cape Epic, #epicwheelsize trending on twitter and the Downhill and Cross Country Mountain bike World Cup hitting Pietermaritzburg in a couple of days, I thought I would look into a discussion regarding the use of 29″ wheeled bikes for downhill… Check out the video:
Morewood Zula video from Israel
It seems to be a well known fact that Morewood Bikes export most of their South African produced bicycle frames, these frames make their way to 28 different countries around the world [perhaps more that we don't know of]. What I love about this is that people from all over the world often post video’s pictures and stories about their bikes and their travels, recently I was sent a link by one of the Israeli customers to this fantastic video shot of him riding on his Morewood Zula frame, check it out:
Spank & Morewood release new design
The engineering and R&D departments at Morewood Bikes and Spank Industriess have been hard at work with a design set to revolutionise bicycle suspension. Dubbed “Solid State Damping” or SSD, this device not only saves a HUGE amount of weight for gram watching XC and Marathon and DH racers, but also vastly improves the pedal efficiency of full suspension mountainbike frames.