Wooden Mountain Bike Races the Leadville 100

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This showed up in my inbox, and I thought it was pretty interesting:

I am a small builder of wood bicycles located in Denver, CO and I just had one of my wood bikes finish the Leadville 100, a 100 mile endurance mountain bike race here in Colorado starting at over 10,000 feet. We did it on a wood bike, which to our knowledge is a world’s first. This also may be the most beautiful mountain bike ever and it is made entirely from a tree hit by a car here in Denver.

http://connorcycles.com/latest/2013-leadville-100/
http://connorcycles.com/latest/d-u-r-t- … ming-soon/

Some specifics on the bike:
Ash wood/kevlar frame
Hollow Carbon Fiber FSA K-Force Light race components (Stem, seatpost, cranks, etc)
DT Swiss 110mm suspension fork
Magura 8 Carbon Disc Brakes
29er wheels with Ghisallo wood rims
Fourteen-speed Rholoff internal gearhub
Gates carbon belt drive
http://connorcycles.com/bikes/durt-mountain-bike/

I’ve gotta say, this is a pretty sweet-looking MTB:

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