Hey! Do you get MOREWOOD?
Whats really in a name? Well, get up close to a Morewood and you’ll know understand. I think most of you will agree, these bikes look pretty damn hot. Morewood bikes are no-nonsense machines from South Africa that were well thought out before being thrashed around, and then thought over again before going into production. …
New Camelbak Antidote Reservoir & Octane LR
Every year I’m excited to visit the Camelbak booth because it seems like there’s always something new and this year was no exception. The Camelbak hydration system has been around for more than 20 years but it’s been a while since the venerable blue bladder has seen a major update. Camelbak’s newest bladder, the Antidote, …
Spank Tools for Superheros
Hi everyone. Well one of the first stops for me this year at Interbike was a visit with a friend of mine Lance Tueller, the Importer of Spank / iXS / and Morewood bikes. This year Spank went and spent a ton of time developing and improving an already impressive line-up of components. Basically the …
Scented bar grips, military folding mountain bikes, and more from Interbike 2010
While element22 and I haven’t had a ton of time to wander around the show so far, we have come across a few strange and interesting products like: Scented bar grips. Spank’s Tugg Job Grips come in scented fruit flavors like apple, orange, and grape (pictured). We’re told the scent, which you can smell from …
New GPS Watch from Timex
Here’s a quick one for the GPS geeks like me out there. For 2011 Timex is introducing its first GPS-enabled Ironman watch, the Global Trainer, and it’s chock full of features. Beyond the typical GPS functions you’d expect speed, time, distance, elevation the Timex Global Trainer is ANT+ compatible with dozens of third party heart …
Cool Stuff from Hydrapak
Although we haven’t had a chance to get hand-on with the hydration packs from Hydrapak yet, we got to snap a few pics and learn a little more about the goods. Unlike other hydration bladders we’ve seen, the Hydrapak bladders are completely open on one end, making them easy to fill and clean. We’re told …
Moots Mooto X YBB Soft Tail Mountain Bike
Ive always been a fan of Moots bikes for a number of reasons: theyre from Colorado, the frames are titanium, and theyre generally built for speed on the XC trail. But the Moots Mooto X YBB 29er caught my eye for another reason: its a soft tail mountain bike. For the uninitiated, a soft tail …
Van Dessel Full Tilt Boogie Cyclocross Bike Test Ride
Why would a mountain biker want to ride a cyclocross bike? Before you decide Ive gone off the deep end, let me make some observations. Cyclocross bikes have knobby tires and V-brakes (even disc brakes are legal now), theyre ridden off road, and they have big wheels (not unlike 29ers). Of course they also have …
Breezer Cloud 9 Pro Carbon Fiber 29er Mountain Bike
In case you hadnt heard, the legendary Joe Breeze is back designing mountain bikes and for 2011 Breezer is introducing its first line of 29ers. I got a chance to demo the Breezer Cloud 9 Pro which had literally just been flown in from the factory in Taiwan days earlier. As one of the first …
Pivot Mach 5.7 Mountain Bike Review
On my trip from Durango to Moab my buddy Nate rode a Pivot Mach 5 and LOVED it so I decided to see what the fuss was about. I knew from Nates bike that the Mach 5 was lightweight for a 5-inch travel bike and that it climbed well thanks to the DW-link suspension design. …
Trek Gary Fisher Collection Superfly Elite 29er Mountain Bike
With the Gary Fisher brand folding into Trek this year, I was interested to demo a bike from the new Gary Fisher Collection, the Superfly Elite. The Superfly Elite is a carbon fiber, hardtail 29er that, beyond the new name, really hasnt changed that much for 2011. Gary Fisher 29ers always had a reputation for …
Point-to-Point Mountain Bike Trip Logistics
To me, the most stressful part of planning our recent Durango to Moab hut-to-hut trip was figuring out the transportation logistics. During the trip itself things would be simple – pedal our bikes from one hut to the next – and the San Juan Hut Systems had all the instructions we needed. Getting to the …
