And you thought we’d run out of stuff from Interbike. We nearly didn’t see these bikes as they were only on the SRAM stand for a day, but we were tipped off to track them down. Danny Hart’s world championship winning Giant and Jaroslav Kulhavy’s Specialized. Here are some pics for you…
It's had a bit of a jetwash...
Glory indeed!
You know you've made it when... Dirty Dans eh?
Looking slightly worn-in
Intriguing carbon cover over the Avid Code brakes. To keep the heat in and the crap out? Or hiding something else?
Truvativ's huge Boobars
In case he crashed his brains out and forgot his name
Wired-on grips in a pro-motocross style.
MRP's G2 chain guide
Ti spring. Natch.
And now for something completely different:
Jaroslav Kulhavy’s world championship XC race-winning Specialized Epic 29er:
A fast bike. Tall too!
Still muddy
That's Champery mud, that is...
How long is that stem? At least a finger long!
Not bad for the first outing of 10sp Gripshift
Specialized Fast Trak 2.0 tyres
It all looks pretty stock stuff! High end, but mostly stuff you can buy in the shops.
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.)
It always suprises me what low profile tyres elite and pro racers manage to get away with on muddy courses. I mean, Champéry for goodness’s sake! Did he not look at the weather?
I have had an sb8 on the back all last winter but i’d never survive my inept cornering with something like that on the front.
Thanks guys… those photos are awesome (a bit fetishistic, but awesome all the same). Reminds me of the photo I have of me age 16, leaning over the barrier and *actually touching* cboardman’s olympic lotus when it was on display in the science museum…
Loving the fact that he’s got a crap cover over his rear brake calliper as I’ve been doing that in the winter for ages!
It works a treat at stopping problems with sticky pistons, so pads actually last some.
Mine are only made of humble gaffer tape though.
Looks like some decent stanchion wear there, should have gone to LoCo 😉
It always suprises me what low profile tyres elite and pro racers manage to get away with on muddy courses. I mean, Champéry for goodness’s sake! Did he not look at the weather?
I have had an sb8 on the back all last winter but i’d never survive my inept cornering with something like that on the front.
Thanks guys… those photos are awesome (a bit fetishistic, but awesome all the same). Reminds me of the photo I have of me age 16, leaning over the barrier and *actually touching* cboardman’s olympic lotus when it was on display in the science museum…
world championship winning bike or not, that Giant is ugly
Why such a horrible colour? Giant of all people! Blue and white, you know it makes sense.
Loving the fact that he’s got a crap cover over his rear brake calliper as I’ve been doing that in the winter for ages!
It works a treat at stopping problems with sticky pistons, so pads actually last some.
Mine are only made of humble gaffer tape though.