Ride Lite Webzine: April 2008

Samstag, 5. April 2008

Obtainium Performance Products

Obtainium makes business with the tuning of steelshoks.You can save about 40% of weight by using the Obtanium 3-8-6-4-4 titanium. The Performance should be more good than the performance of an rockshox shok. You don't have to think about the stability, every titaniumshock is laminated. In addition to that, they have severe tests. More about this here and here.

Chromag Fubar OSX

274g weights the new "Fubar OSX" by Chromag - with the wide of 30"! More facts: 1" Rise, 8° Backsweep. colour is black chrome and red.Unfortunaly no news about the price.

Pedal the easy way

Racing cycle chains at the mtb? Sounds like an joke. But think about it, a racing cycle driver brings a lot of power to the chain, quite more than a dirt and street biker. I bought the KMC x10 Sl at the DoubleXStore. I weight it with 239g.

i had to cut a lot:

Now we are going to make some mathmatics:
KMC Kool Chain Super Lite 281g
./. KMC X10 Super Lite 175g
= saving about 106g

The chain is available in silver for 54,95 and gold for 64,95. The chain does'nt fit to fat bmx sprockets.

XPedo MX-11 / Flybikes

The MX-11 Face Off Transform Pedal by XPedodeserved the first place in pedal innovations! Not without this facts: At the body you can build on different cages, and it looks very light, too. Unfortunately there are now more facts about weight, price and so on.

At Flybikes its "back to the 80s",cause they brought out an one peace pvc seat.The uno looks quite good, but there's no information about the weight. Probably about 190gramms.

Rockshox Argyle - travel it!

Working with Rockshox fokrs is quite a pleasure, everyxthing ist logical as it should be. Through the days i got some know how about air forks, which are very interesting, cause of the weight. I often see guys with untravelt argyles, they suck their geo, so i'm going to solve this problem and going to travel Felix fork.

optical 125mm of travel and original

The first step is to open the air chambers and remove the air plugin. Push the fork and remove the upcomming pipe.

Loose the bolt and loose the iner life with a rubber mallet. After that remove the bolt

Remove the innerlife how it is shown.

Now we are going to use the wirepipe from the Revelation Articel : 125mm - X = mm of travel, in this case i use an 50mm Pipe with two holes for the air. Work fair and clean!!

The finished inner life looks like that. Put it together again, 5ml of 15 fork oil and 10bar of air to the prochumbers. I#m the oppinion that the rebaound has to be adjusted again.

The finished Argyle should look like that. The lost of guarantie is no thematic. Guys who are 'ntjust tool timed should go to their lokal dealer.

Eclat BMX

Eclat BMX is going to the Bmx Business.Unfortunately there are now news about the weights, but we can look at corloured products. Among other they're Pivotals,Cranks and some new seat idears. So the one piece seat design comes from the 80's and looks quite bad at all.

Lotek - new Collection

Nuff' said about Lotek shoes, so check out the pictures and the HP!

high definitioned fun

new HD Stuff at bei Mutiny!

Freitag, 4. April 2008

2Soulscycles Flatpedals "Red D"

Now you can get the new flatpedal 2Soulscycles "Red D". Weight is 464g, so it's real lite for an alloy-pedal. Apart from some pictures - the facts:

- 6061 T6 alloy, extruded and CNC cutted pedalbody
- 2x SB bearings + DU bearing
- Cro-Mo axles
- mass 95x95mm (body:17-14-17mm)
- 10 screwed pins
- 464g/pair
- Price 69,90 Euro

Profile / BOS / RST & Animal

Profile works on a new pedal. The prototype on the pictures is extra thin, flat and lite - it has got only one bearing!

The fork and shock manufacturer BOS comes out - after a big DH-fork - with the new single crown fork called "N'Dee". There's no information about weight, but some facts:
oil-damping-systen
1 1/8"
QR 20
upper side: 36mm 7050 alloy
downside: magnesium
compression and Rebound adjustable
160 or 170mm travel