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Let’s start this one off with a look at our pals at Niner Bikes. It’s been a busy year – though not helped by some big delays on the new carbon hardtail, but that’s been sorted and bikes are starting to appear.
Niner has been quick to adapt the flared headtube 'standard', using flared steerer Fox forks and thru-axles to stiffen up the front ends of big wheel bikes.
The RIP 9 - Niner's hardcore hardtail model. Nice beard in the background.
Custom colour Rockshox XX forks on the carbon AIR model.
Twin Six does a great range of 'non-team' riding jerseys for riders with no particular flag to fly.
Revelate seat bags (as used by Chipps on his cross-Pyrenees cycle tour) - a light and simple way of strapping your worldly possesions onto your bike.
Eric Parsons shows the improved Revelate seat bag and the Handlebar Harness handlebar roll too.
Lots of straps to keep your sleeping bag/sleeping mat strapped to your handlebars, with a further zipped pocket for maps and gadgets.
New Revelate Tangle bags. They allow a lot of storage space under your top tube, with room left for the water bottle cages on your bike. It's like free space.
Surly had a fine line in obscure Japanese snacks. These were a lot more tasty than they looked.
We saw these really smart looking 661 full face helmets. It's great to see something that isn't the 'distressed punk' that seemingly everyone else is doing.
We’ve not heard much of Voodoo Cycles recently, but it has been beavering away behind the scenes. Here’s its Zobop full suspension bike, and then a couple of more, er, niche offerings.
Zobop 'Secret Society' indeed.
A smart and modern looking linkage design there.
Everyone has to have a singlespeed road bike these days - here's the Maji.
Top marks to Voodoo for the oddest looking stem in a while. This is to put the drop bar tops in a similar position to flat bars for some of that 'woodsy' riding.
Voodoo Nakasi - run it as a singlespeed, disc 29er, or as a 'cross bike with cantis and gears. It's a super-versatile frame. Now we just need to find out if anyone else shares Voodoo's vision.
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.)
Second the 661 designs on their full face helmets. I’ll never need one but very very striking design.
As the owner of a Voodoo Wanga I have to wonder what they are up to with that Nakasi. Why put such a mad stem on a frame with a micro head tube? Very strange to me, almost like it was designed by someone who knows nowt about riding a bike.
@ kiwijohn – yes, they had to change the name because Specialized threatened to sue them because the name contained the word “epic”, which they regarded as their brand name. Or something like that.
I like the idea of the Nakasi, but don’t think I could own something that ugly.
Thats Fuzzy Mylne with the beard in the background of the niner shot. Ace US single speed rider for niner/ergon
He was easy to confuse with Dejay Birch – another choppered Niner rider
Deeks the beard on the niner bloke! It gives Ed a run for his money.
Those 661 lid designs are brilliant.
the RIP 9 looks nice – for a hybrid, does it work tho?!
Second the 661 designs on their full face helmets. I’ll never need one but very very striking design.
As the owner of a Voodoo Wanga I have to wonder what they are up to with that Nakasi. Why put such a mad stem on a frame with a micro head tube? Very strange to me, almost like it was designed by someone who knows nowt about riding a bike.
Voodoo Zobop is great in the flesh
That beard is a strap on.
what is it with bikers and beards??
Revelate = Epic Designs?
@ kiwijohn – yes, they had to change the name because Specialized threatened to sue them because the name contained the word “epic”, which they regarded as their brand name. Or something like that.
That’s stink bro. I’ve borrowed a set of ED bags for a mission & they’re choice as.
Link to the twin six website. Nice gear!
http://www.twinsix.com
hardcore 29er, well i never! *chuckles*
that’s not a beard, its his hair isn’t it?
The RIP 9 Hardtail is a concept only at the moment. Niner are accepting feedback on what features riders would like to see in a 29er hardtail.