Roc d'Azur - Report 3 - Singletrack World Magazine

Guy Bowden from Flow MTB reports…

Some Wallace and Gromit inspired helmets from Urge - the "Down-o-matic".

The 'Endur-o-matic' - Looks very "Chips" (the TV show, not the editor).

The 'Dirt-o-matic' - for that Bowling ball on your head look.

Raceface and Sunline battle it out for the most colourful wide bars - Raceface are winning - they've got 6 different colours

Sunline only have 3 (not counting the plain silver/black ones).

Colour coordination - looks good to me.

Colourful, lightweight chains from MSC.

"New cycles" - ti hard tail - "measure twice, cut once" - or maybe measure 50 times - you don't want to get that wrong.

Nakamura 140 team Pro.

Gives you wings! - the Nakamura XC racer.

A nice Salsa Moto Rapido.

Surlys and Salsas.

A retro Salsa top.

Colourful Twenty6 stems.

... and some light multi-coloured pedals.

A waterproof bag - it won't go underwater, but it will keep things dry in a rain storm.

Ben Haworth

Orange Switch 6er. Stif Squatcher. Schwalbe Magic Mary Purple Addix front. Maxxis DHR II 3C MaxxTerra rear. Coil fan. Ebikes are not evil. I have been a writer for nigh on 20 years, a photographer for 25 years and a mountain biker for 30 years. I have written countless magazine and website features and route guides for the UK mountain bike press, most notably for the esteemed and highly regarded Singletrackworld. Although I am a Lancastrian, I freely admit that West Yorkshire is my favourite place to ride. Rarely a week goes by without me riding and exploring the South Pennines.

Comments (15)

banjowhackerbanjowhacker October 12, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Nice Euro camel toe next to the Salsa bikes.

Benji HaworthBenji Haworth October 12, 2009 at 12:13 pm

On that man you mean? ;-/

mangoridebikemangoridebike October 12, 2009 at 12:19 pm

who makes the waterproof bag? are they going to be available in the uk?

ooOOooooOOoo October 12, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Male? Female? Herma?

AlexSimonAlexSimon October 12, 2009 at 12:22 pm

Surely cycling shorts with pads are excluded anyway!

tankslappertankslapper October 12, 2009 at 12:38 pm

Is Nakamura not a n other Raleigh brand?

How good are they?

cheers
TS

banjowhackerbanjowhacker October 12, 2009 at 12:54 pm

@Benji. Yes. A padded mangina snout. Nicely composed. Must have taken ages to set that shot up? Excellent work 🙂

matt lewismatt lewis October 12, 2009 at 1:06 pm

I had a Nakamura road bike. Amazing value for money and a a good bike. Don’t know if they’ve got anything to do with Raleigh though. French Intersport makes them I think.

Benji HaworthBenji Haworth October 12, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Banjowhacker – I’ll pass on your praise to Guy 🙂

juanjuan October 12, 2009 at 1:41 pm

nakamura are go sport how brand. Like decathlon they cut the middle men hence they can offer very good value bike. But like decathlon they are very dull bikes.

nickhartnickhart October 12, 2009 at 4:11 pm

took a bit of finding but if you look through the exhibitors list you’ll find vertical eight
http://www.blogdecodesign.fr/accessoire/sacs-vertical-eight-v8/

benjagbenjag October 12, 2009 at 6:31 pm

I like the Urge down-o-matic, no sign of a uk distributor on their site though.

flowmtbguyflowmtbguy October 13, 2009 at 9:30 am

Sorry – been riding my bike the past few days. Nick hart is right – Vertical Eight. The guy said they make fully submersible bags, but only for the military right now. The bag in the photo will be around 110 euros when it’s out.

Camel toe – hmmm. not sure that was intended.

Urge – they’re not available in France until Xmas – not sure on a UK distributer yet. The Endur-o-matic is very light by the way – same as an XC lid.

juanjuan October 14, 2009 at 9:45 am

they’re not available in France until Xmas

I’ll double check that and let you know if you want.

juanjuan October 15, 2009 at 8:56 am

Well just talk to the LBS. They placed an order for september
2008 so you might actually be wrong in term of date, but the other way around. They might come very very late in the year.