We all know about the Origin 8 carbon fork. What you may not be aware of is that now there are a couple of options to the first edition. As you can see by the image above provided to us by Origin 8, the crown and drop outs are now available in pearly white in [...]

Recently an industry trade magazine ran an article on how the evolution of the road bike has resulted in the situation where nothing but the front wheel of a typical early 70’s road racer would fit on some road bikes from today. Mountain biking is following hard on those foot steps.
I wrote about some [...]

Pivot Cycles, the company headed by suspension guru Chris Cocalis, has been rumored to have been toying with the idea of introducing a 29 inch wheeled version of it’s “DW link” suspension bikes.
Now I’m hearing that this will be a reality sometime in 2008. My source says that Pivot will introduce a “four [...]

In the first “Making a Case” post, I went through reasons why using a 650B wheel format instead of a 29″er wheel for a long travel full suspension bike was not going to get you any “big wheeled benefits”, nor would it be much different than the 26″ers we have already. Now I am moving [...]

In the realm of full suspension, a 29″er long travel full suspension bike seems like it might possibly be a not so good idea. Many poo-poo the concept and point to wheel strength, wheel diameter/geometry issues, and increased mass as the big problems with doing a 29″er long travel bike, amongst other concerns.
One of [...]