Well, some good build pics of Niner’s new carbon fiber hard tail frame have been published to Niner’s FaceBook page. Here’s a look for you…..

The new SRAM XX group features heavily on this bike with American Classics newly updated 29″er wheels which we are hearing are tubeless ready.

Large cross section carbon fiber shapes lead us [...]

The Bigwheeled Ballyhoo for 2009 is going to be held on October 10th-11th at Potter’s Pasture, near Brady, Nebraska. (See the link for details) I was there just this past weekend and will be filing a special report on the riding and on the bike I rode there later in the week.

Let me just [...]

It is time for another News And Rumors post, so without further delay, here are the latest tidbits to come across my desk recently…..
Cielo 29″er?- That’s Right!: Many of you who are fans of the handmade bicycle shows will recognize Cielo as the marque brought to life by Chris King. (Yes…..that Chris King!). Most examples [...]

I have been putting the Origin 8 2 X 9 cranks through their paces all summer and here are my thoughts now on this drive train option “geared” (sorry for the pun!) towards the 29″er riders out there.

The cranks have performed flawlessly over the course of the test. Shifts have been good. Not super [...]

We saw the Foes Racing B-29 prototype at Sea Otter earlier this spring. However; Brent Foes said there needed to be tweaks and redesigns of some of the frame details before it would be approved for limited production. Well, it looks as though that day is nigh.
The frame has been undergoing several revisions and [...]

FRM´s new 29er rims – XMD 388
Editor’s Note: This report comes from our European Contributor- “c_g” and we thank him for his efforts in getting this information and conducting this review/test.
I have just taken delivery of the new 29er FRM tubeless ready rims called “XMD 388 29er“ right from the very first production run [...]