The Dakine booth was full of bright new colors for 2014, including a Hawaiian print chest pocket on the button up Wrench jersey ($60 USD). The Traverse glove ($30) has minimal padding on the palm, a hook and loop wrist closure, and like the rest of Dakine's glove line is touch screen compatible. The Oakridge flannel gets a color update along with an antimicrobial treatment for the polyester fabric.
Fittingly, a number of riders were using early versions of Dakine's Enduro Hip Pack at this year's Oregon Enduro Series. The pack has two waist pockets along with a larger rear compartment with mesh dividers to hold a pump, tube, tools, and any other accessories you might need. Available in green and camo color options, the hip pack retails for $50 USD.
Matt Simmonds rode this Nukeproof Pulse to a career-best fifth place finish in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, running Schwalbe Rock Razor tires front and rear for decreased rolling resistance.
![Greg Minnaar s Santa Cruz V10c complete with the same flat tire he finished his race run with.]()
Greg Minnaar's World Champion Santa Cruz V10c was on display as well, complete with the same flat tire he finished his race run with.
BMC team rider Stephen Ettinger won the US National Championships aboard this bike, a Fourstroke FS01 29. The bike's geometry is slightly more relaxed than you'd typically see on an elite XC race bike, but that obviously didn't slow Ettinger down. The build kit includes electronically activated Fox CTD suspension, a full Shimano XTR drivetrain, and a patriotic paint scheme.
Diamondback's Sortie 29 bikes gain additional stiffness for 2014 from the addition of a cross brace between the rear seatstays and by running the main Knucklebox pivot through the bike's downtube. With an XX1 drivetrain and a Crank Brothers build kit the Sortie Black retails for $6500 USD, with other complete Sortie 29 bikes starting at $2700.
The Sortie 29's seat stay bridge and new pivot mounting system help prevent undue flex as the bike goes through its 120mm of travel.
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There are always a few booths at Interbike that leave us scratching our heads, and this one was no exception, since it was mainly filled with boxing gloves and accessories imported from Pakistan.
Loaded's latest components were hanging off of this Black Market Roam set up with 27.5" wheels.
The Pivot Phoenix DH bike is always an eye catcher, especially built up with a Shimano Saint gruppo and a Kashima coated Fox 40. The frame only with a Fox RC4 and an Angleset goes for $3250 USD.
ENVE had a Turner Czar 29er built up with drool-worthy components at their booth, including black on black carbon wheels, and a sleek carbon stem with titanium hardware. We'd love to see ENVE start offering their stem in a length shorter than 75mm...
This Phil Wood V10 fat bike sure gets around - it seems to appear at every trade show we cover.
Hope has launched a fat bike compatible version of their Pro Evo hub available for 170 and 190mm spacing. The Fatsno is available for $288.33 USD for the rear, and $125 for the front.
If you somehow missed it on the
Pinkbike Facebook page, here's another look at the Scurra Hard Enduro bike. A 29" front wheel, 27.5" rear wheel and a unique front linkage system makes for one bizarre looking bike. The bike gets seven inches of travel front and rear, and the designers are currently looking for distributors and funding to bring the bike into production.
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maybe they should talk to the boxing glove guys... they really seem to have their ducks in a row.
also, "King 4 Ring"?
Something tells me that Interbike means something very different in Middle Earth...
I would also say they have increased the inertia as there is more mass needed to be moved before the wheel can react to bumps.
And, of course, there is the old 'motocross' argument that we love to bring up on Pinkbike. Are motocross bikes running this? No.
Please note that any point made using motocross as an argument is at the discretion of the person making the argument, and any points brought about by other users that point out inconsistencies between MTB and motocross, can be used or ignored as anyone sees fit.
I bought one of these frame which I still have but don't use, they climbed and cornered better than any other bike I have ridden, and i own a v10c and trc they seamed to squash down in the suspension making the wheelbase increase. But they have the worst brake dive I have ever experienced, if u were going downhill fast and breaked hard it would be so easy to go over the bars, evan on the flats hard breaking the front would dive right down, they didn't really catch on and whyte bikes stopped making them.
My old bike built up a few years ago
Being so over complicated and at odds with absolutely every other bike design makes it very unlikely that this represents some great paradigm shift.
Rely on your eyes...
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Just enjoy it
But we also really shouldn't judge that much because non of us have seen the frame in action. I would put it into the 'interesting' category for now..
just my thoughts, don't hate
Cheers
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You know what I'm referring to.
Were you to remove the word "crap", I think your point would avoid any misconstruing.
"BMC team rider Stephen Ettinger won the US National Championships aboard this bike,"
A US national championship winning bike - so why didn't he pain a Kyrgyzstan flag on there?
About skilled labour... I'm all for local production from economical reasons, but quality wise, Asian companies make better bikes than majority of "Western" manufacturers. Through long years of making bikes at gigantic scale, for "Western" designers, they just got real good at it. And don't fly high with education and skills of local "Western" labour because it's all worth shit when you have people who are not as dedicated and disciplined as Asians.
Ie., bush, rove, McCAin, Graham, christie, pelosi,h. Reid, soros, new deal, obama, obamacare, chicago, croney capitalist, irs, fed, unwarranted war, middle east oil, qe money (fiat currency), career politicians,...think rand paul, ted cruz, mike lee, levin, hayek, t. Sowell, dr. Carson, federalist papers, representative republics...
"Derpp uhhhh 'merikans are smart n design most of the uhhhh widgets on our bikes but uhhhh deeerrpppppp uhhhhh I doont think they can figger out the uhhhh derrpppp manufacturing uhhhh"
Apparently you think all we do over here is trade stocks and bonds?
@Iamarider- Touche. It evokes a certain emotion ... I believe its called "pride". It's nice to see those dumb 'merikans can still manufacture bikes/components.
The thing about Asian factories is that there's investment in new equipment and any fool can load material and press a button so you might get some pretty nice parts. When it comes to stems, bars and seatposts just give me Kalloy and be done with it, a lot of there stuff is rebranded anyway. If you want to see stupid parts how about the old downhill stems that weighed about a pound? Nobody in there right mind is riding a 50lb. bike anymore. No doubt, there's some real garbage out there though, always has been.
also could you guys just PM each other? this is really f*cking stupid to keep popping up since it's about something completely irrelevant to this whole story.
"Sweet hip pack dude, you look soooo enduro..."
Hipster dorks wear them around Seattle with portable sound systems though. Whatever.
looks weird but i'd love to test ride it
I'm surprised diamondback has a $6500 bike
those Loaded rims are ugly as sin
And WTF Scurra
just why?
The Pulse and the V-10 - lust... Everything else - meh...
(though I can't figure out why the Pivot's so uninspiring)