We’ve still got so much stuff to get through that we’re going to just group things randomly, depending on where they fall in the notepad, which is why we start with the newly revamped Fixie Inc Pure Blood ‘cross bike (and end with cannibals and lasers…)
Already ahead of the newly introduced UCI rules allowing discs in ‘cross racing, the Pure Blood has had a further makeover to fully integrate discs into its life. Coming in at around £2400 complete, or £1000 for a frame a complete bike as built should work out at 21.5lbs (9.7kg)
OK, that’s enough cyclocross perving (there were plenty to see at the show, so there’ll be more…) and on to more mountain bike-centric stuff. How about down at the Shimano booth?
With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
olympus mons is the highest mountain on mars, indeed in the solar system
tharsis is a region of volcanic uplift, olympus mons sits on the tharsis plataeu
still its better than calling it a shimano EV-FC-M440-1958B something or other
Thanks for the celestial geekery, I shall amend 🙂
Olympus mons is indeed, geekily correct.
I guess they didn’t want their stem saddled with ‘mons’. tee, and indeed, hee 🙂
Pro is slowly coming out with some wider XC riders.
Nooo, XC riders should always be skinny runts.
this flashy shoe is Shimano’s top-end, head mouldable M315 race shoe
An interesting concept…
“what size is”….. Eddies gut compared to Alberto’s?
still he’s earned the right i guess
Merckx could probably still spank most people on the bike!
Shimano’s winter boots appear to have an awful lot of holes in them.
How’s that going to help keep your feet cosy in winter?
does contador only have one shirt?
It’s likely that Contador was only at the show for one day and all the photos you’ve seen of him were taken on that day, with the same shirt.
the same shirt as last years london bike show though!
Merckx’s cx bike makes me smile.