We’re sifting through the 200 or so photos we’ve been snapping daily at Eurobike and just have time to slip in a couple of reports before pounding the halls again, scouting for more new stuff. Here’s a quick look at Santa Cruz and SRAM. Both companies have had big launches earlier in the year (the carbon V10, the Nickel and Butcher for Santa Cruz and the XO, X9 and X7 launch for SRAM) but there’s always something new if you poke around…
Moving down a hall or two we find SRAM. As well has having walls lined with fast bikes from this year (Oh that? That’s Andy Schleck’s bike, next to Absalon’s…) SRAM is showing the full XX, XO, X9 and X7 line, and there are a few more things besides.
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.)
The Descendant crank would be even more desirable if it was called the Descendents crank and played I Don’t Want to Grow Up while you cruised along.
^ yes!
^ no!
what other colours does the LT carbon come in?
And that is why Tom should never be allowed to name bike parts. ;o)
Any news on when the 2 x 10 SRAM X9 and X0 will be hitting the UK shelves?
Jambon et fromage.
2×10 x9 and x0 is at Fishers now……..