Core Bike Quickies

We’re busy scribbling stories from the Core Bike show this week, so we thought you’d like a little preview on some of the fun things we found there. We’ll be covering it in more detail over the next few days. In the meantime, get a load of:

This Yeti Ultimate!
Darren from Silverfish wanted this bike more than anything in the world when he was a youngster, so he spent last year piecing together this concours-level retro bike. It features components from Bullseye, Grafton, Shimano, Ringlé Components, Answer, onZa and Manitou and more.

DVO showed up at last year’s Core Bike show with the first Emerald prototype fork – now it has production models in stock, with rear shocks and an enduro fork due to join it soon. Very serviceable, very stiff and seemingly very in-demand…

Race Face goes bigger. The Race Face Canadians (from Canadia) showed off  it’s new (800mm by) 35mm bar and stem.  Launched a couple of years ago by Easton, it looked like the 35mm ‘standard’ might not gain any traction, but it seems that other companies are now getting on board – especially as it allows carbon bars to be made in wider widths without any loss of strength compared to the 31.8mm clamp size.

Race Face Atlas pedals are finally here. In many colours too!

Meanwhile, over at Upgrade, it was showing off new forks from X-Fusion, a revamped Kinesis line – and some fresh colours on some of the bikes, like this CrossLight.

Chris (and Tim) from Mojo have had this bike built by Nicolai’s custom-build service to try out their take on Forward Geometry, 50″ wheelbase, head angles (63°…) and suspension. Virtually no bit of it is stock. We look forward to seeing this travelling at high speed.

Thomson finally showed a near-production 27.2 post, with a Stealth-compatible post in the works and even a road post. Oh, and a titanium frame – but you’ve already heard about that, right?

Deuter have a good range of bags in stock at i-ride. This is the commuter pack.

Hope has a good range of new stuff that we’ll cover in depth soon. It is now making EVEN more stuff itself, with the battery packs on its Vision lights reverting to good old machined aluminium (with added rubber scuff guards for your frame). It also gains a power indicator LED. Oh, and is that the new R8 Subbuteo football stadium light?

You might have seen a certain Guy Martin riding this behind a truck recently.

And currently in development from Hope is this 42T inner sprocket for your 1×10 system. It features bracing ribs to keep the ring rigid against the cassette. There’ll be Shimano and SRAM versions.

Chipps’ favourite quirky product of the show was this minimalist single-sided road mudguard seen on the Ison booth. It fits under the QR skewer and really seems to stay in place for that bit of spray protection for your back.  Reckon a version would work on a mountain bike?

Endura has a ton of new stuff for all riders. We like this new Endura Humvee Convert jacket. It has zip-off sleeves and shoulders, leaving a mesh-backed gilet. It’ll be £84.99.

And we love the ‘German Dustman’ look with Endura’s green, waterproof trousers. Hey, at least it’s not ‘fisherman yellow’ or fluoro.

 

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