Eurobike 2015: Stan’s

A couple of things from Our Stan (as no-one calls him that I know) – the previous 3.30 hub is gone, gone gone, and is replaced with the new, designed from the ground up, Neo and Neo Ultimates!

They’re fully custom designed by a mystery headset manufacturer. The Shell is 100% CNCed in one hit, with preposterously fine tolerances. There is a straight axle with no stress risers, everything is ultra-precise. The main difference between the Neo and the Neo Ultimate is that the former has 4 pawls, and the latter has 6, out of phase. Built into the Valour Carbon XC rim, these are €1,699 and €1,999 per pair respectively. Sweet.

Speaking of the Valour… meet the Bravo.

It’s basically the Valour on steroids. They’re good for 2.5in tyres, and they’ve got a fairly low profile for wide rims, which apparently helps with deflection and decreases spoke snappage.They’re undergoing constant testing by the Athertons – so you can be sure that they’ll be plenty strong. For an explanation of the whole rim philosophy (and some cool slo-mo) look at around 50s into this little video

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Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

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