Rumors

Rock Shox Long Travel Fork?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Is Rock Shox testing a long travel 29″er fork? Rumors have been whispered that the fork maker would be introducing some sort of long travel 29″er fork for at least two years now. Now there is some evidence that this perhaps is true.
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Here is a photo from a thread on mtbr.com showing a Lenz Behemoth [...]

Geax Saguaro 29″er “TnT” Tire Confirmed

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I’m hearing through the grapevine that the Geax tubeless ready offering that has been rumored to be coming soon is the well liked Saguaro 29″er. The Geax Saguaro will feature Geax’s “TnT” system, which stands for “Tubes, no Tubes” and will be okay to run tubeless with sealant. No word on just when the tire [...]

Pivot Cycles To Introduce A 29″er?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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 [...]

Bontrager Switchblade G2 Rumor

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

We’re hearing out of Michigan that Gary Fisher made a visit to a shop and spilled the beans that indeed a new G2 offset Bontrager Switchblade fork would become available by Fall of this year.
We had speculated as much after hearing Mr. Fisher muse on this very subject last summer at Trek World, the [...]

Frostbike ‘08: Tire Rumors And News

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

In this final report, I wanted to give a spot for all of the tire news and rumors I heard at Frostbike. Some of this will be a repeat from an earlier post, but this will get all the info in one place.
First off, we have Hutchinson who will be adding another 29″er tread [...]

Frostbike ‘08: New Reba and Other News.

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Here at Frostbike 2008 there is some hot news to counter the cold temperatures outside. We knew it had to happen someday, and it is coming. A Rock Shox thru axle fork. We were hoping to see maybe to see a 29″er Pike or something with 120mm of travel, but this is a start. 100mm [...]

 

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