More Products, People and Stories From the Show - Interbike 2015
Last year, Bell Helmets Executive Vice President, Jessica Klodnicki had no other ladies to mountain bike with. She was a new rider, who had just taken a skills clinic, and was looking for some friends to hit the trails with. By chance, she ran into one of her fellow clinic attendees after yet another solo ride on the trails, the two clicked and began riding together. Soon there were three women, followed by twelve and within three months, the group had grown to seventy. Jessica made the monthly ride official and dubbed the event "Girls Rock" and it grew to host hundreds of women each month.
Jessica and Bell have created a program called Joy Ride to motivate others to do the same, and are offering five women from five different cities around the USA the opportunity to start their own women's ride group with their assistance, and are taking applications now. The winners will be flown to Santa Cruz for an induction and training and will receive funding to make their group rides a reality. Bell have also just released a new women's specific Joy Ride helmet line to celebrate the initiative.
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 The Joyride line is based on smaller sizing, and a specific color palette. The Super 2R, Super and Rush will be a part of the collection, and will be available with or without MIPS. |
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| This is the Soul helmet, it's one helmet that can do it all. With two removable visors you can take it on the road, on the mountain or on your commute to work and for or $75 USD, you're not going to break the bank either. |
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| Let's re-visit what was potentially the most talked about short in women's mountain biking for 2015. The Troy Lee Designs Skyline in "Speeda" colorway. Despite selling very well, in fact Troy Lee Designs doubled their overall women's clothing sales last year, the "Speeda" Skyline short is dead. In the Speeda's place we now have "Evil". Discuss. |
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| On a side note, the Skyline will come with waist adjusters this year, and the Skyline jersey has had a bit of a re-design and will be made with a much lighter material that doesn't have that scratchy feeling of years past. The neckline V has been slimmed out and the short should contour to the body more now as well. |
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| Here's a sneak peak at next year's new women's gloves from TLD... |
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| Osprey have always made nice packs, these Talons are made for the ladies who want to head out on overnighters and long days our in the wilderness. |
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| Drinks at the ladies lounge. We found a lot of influential and interesting women here. |
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| For instance, meet Lael Wilcox. Lael hails from Achorage, Alaska and this year rode her bike to Banff so she could race the Tour Divide, a self supported mountain bike race that spans 2745mi / 4418km and goes from Canada to New Mexico. Lael got sick mid race and finished in 17 days. Knowing she could do better, she made her way back to Bellingham, rode her bike back to Banff and tried again. She was on pace to beat the men's record until she reached a long stretch of mud in Montana that set her back around 12 hours. She still finished though, this time in 15 days. Lael has just sold her Specialized Stumpjumper 29er and has now bought a steel hard tail, which she'll be riding to New Mexico next. |
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| Have tiny feet and hate big pedals? Have big feet and hate tiny pedals? Spank have just announced the Spoon, which will be available in three different sizes so you can pick what will work best for your hoof. |
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| Spank are pretty tight with the folks at Five Ten, and the Spoon was designed to work best with their shoes. A set of Spoons will cost $94.99. |
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| iXS always work closely with their riders for feedback, and Miss Rachel Atherton played a big part in iXS's new women's apparel collection for 2016. |
For all those with an aversion to teal may I introduce the Viber jersey in red.
The New BC-X3.1 Women's gloves look a lot more glamorous than their name sounds.
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| iXS are on board with a new recycling initiative this year and are incorporating recycled plastic into their fabrics. One kilo of plastic water bottles is enough to make four jerseys. |
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| Multi-media get along at the PB booth. |
G-Form got their start when Daniel Wyner, an inventor and tinkerer, began re-purposing gel hospital bed lining for shoe and saddle products. Wyner has a long history with working with advanced composite materials, and has expanded and developed their technology over the years to include impact protection pieces for application in various action sports, from snowboarding to Hollywood stunts. For the first time this year, women will have three mountain bike specific protection options: a compression shirt, and two compression shorts.
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| The Pro X Women's Short sleeve shirt features, rib, shoulder, breastbone and clavicle protection. G-Form's RPT material hardens on impact, it needs to be sandwiched between two hard surfaces, like your bones and the ground for it to work. The Pro-X Knee-Shin and Elbow guards are not gender specific, but they do come in youth sizing if you find regular sized products too big. |
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| The shorts come with hip, tailbone, and side thigh protection in an SPF 50 moisture wicking fabric. The Pro-X short comes in two options: with or without a chamois. |
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| This guy was custom spray painting hats at the G-Form Booth. |
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| New this year for Scottish brand Endura is this long sleeve Singletrack II jersey, which is super lightweight to the touch. |
There will also be a matching t-shirt style jersey of the Singletrack II if short sleeves are your fancy.
Pair your new jersey with the Singletrack Lite Short, a lightweight short with a four-way stretch that will keep the legs spinning in comfort for $99 USD.
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| The melee at the SRAM booth for afternoon drinks. Turns out people like free beer and free swag. |
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Outside covered the story back in July.
Seriously ? I'd much rather pay