Ride Lite Webzine

Neue Resurrection Kurbel

2009-02-27T22:25:00.002+01:00

Resurrection mit neuer 2-teiliger Kurbel: 780g soll sie wiegen, komplett - jedoch ohne Lager. Die Kurbelarme sind 180mm lang, wie die 19mm Achse aus 4130 CroMo. Farblich darf sich der ambitionierte Kinderradfahrer auf schwarz einstellen.
Vertrieben wird die Kurbel für 215 Euro von KoxxBMX und sind bereits erhältlich.

2008-07-08T15:19:00.002+02:00

Thuesday, 8. Juli 2008

Stories from the Fork grave / Pike Air U-Turn traveling

After 2 Years riding my revelation it is gone. A brake at the bridge. A good result for a 1580g lite fork.

I need a new hard fork: I choose the Pike 454 Air, which isn't available as Dual air gabel, rather available as U-Turn.

That means to me, the fork has to beacome less weight. The motion Controll yields an air plugin and the shank was cliped. AND look: 2030g

The second prob is the suspension. 110- 140mm is ajustable. To much for my Mob and o wish 70-110mm.
Both Air chambers should be emptied out. We push down the Head of the U-Turn and remove the snap ring. You see 5 balls an springs which we bring in secure. Loose the Topcap and use a rubber hammer to beat against the lower end of the fork, to remove the complete U-Turn Unit.

both Snaprings must be taken away with much care. The negative unit must be seperated from the positive unit with some muscle power.Important: The rubberpipe!

This one must be cutted in the half!

Now we're going to build the perfekt Spacer. I bought 10x20mm plastic spacer. The holes were drilled out to 11,5mm and every Spacer got 2 holes that the air system works. The build up is easy: a half rubberpipe, Spacer, second half of the rubberpipe and the original sealing disc.
The Ruberpipes steam the fork attempt. Fter that, the negative unit comes to the U-unit again and the other way round build together. Here is a care manual from Rock Shox: Link.
Now You're finished: Give air to the fork and your Pike is traveled!

Who is cack-handed or is afaid of mistakes gives his fork to an expert. Guaranty or something like that is by yourself.

Monday, 7. Juli 2008

Haro Steel Reserve

Haro Bikes starts with a new Hardtail: The Steel Reserve. The frame is tested by Phil Sundbaum. Facts: Link.

Avid Elixir CR

Some Days Ago wh talked about Elixier R by Avid: Link. Now they're going to release a lighter Version in 2009: The Elixir CR. The CR should became the new Juicy. It exists a PDF file from Sram about the brale: here. The weight with 160mm disc is 375gramm

Friday, 4. Juli 2008

Ilegal Cranks

This crank by Ilegal BMX weights with 19mm 48t Steelaxis 891g without bearings. Now available in black and Raw.

Thursday, 3. Juli 2008

Animal Plastic Barends

Eclat Prototypes

We're sorry but further infos are not available. You see the PVC pedals and the 2 piece crank by Eclat.

Proper / Profile

New Longneck grips by Proper: available in black, white, an transparent purple, blue ans transparent. Aditional with light barends.

A little look to Profiles parts

ligh rims by MacMahone and Sun

MacMahone brings out a nice lite wheelset. The 32 hole rims are made of carbon and called Ozone. The rims are combined with the King 120. The colours are black and white, weight info is missing.

Sun releases a light 24" rim for hard action: The Envy. The in the Bmx section known Rim weights 501g. 28mm wide and 36 holes, v-brake and discbrake drivable. The colours are just black and chrome.

Thuesday, 1. Juli 2008

Leafcycles Eastwood Bar Ltd. / blkmrkt Brass Knuckle Lite

New colours at Leafcyces. Eastwood bar: Fiji Blue, perekt fit to the OS frame. Really limited: Only 15(!!!!) bars for germany

This nice Mob shows the Prototype of the new Brass Knuckle Lite Seat. Further info aren't available yet.

Mankind, Colony & Illegal

2008-06-22T18:34:00.002+02:00

We find some new pics of some Pivotal Seat! At first some colony SeatsAnd one illegal seat, think looks cool.

there are some mankind news, too:

Identity Barends:

-Weight: 46g ( not really light but i think they looks really nice)
-Colours: Black, whit, silver, purple, green and gold

Asadi Phase 2 Grips:

-Farben: black, blue, brown, purple, red and green

Scrambler Mini (top) and Newworld Mini (botoom):

-weight: 212g
-Farben: black, wight, brown

bmx news

2008-06-16T11:12:00.005+02:00

Mosh 2008:
We don't know more about the new 2008 Mosh Parts. They didn't let us know about the weight.
more pics on moshparts.com.

New Volume Pivotal Seat:

i think every bmx brand has now pivotal seats in their product range

Stolen BMX build some new prototyps. The first new thing is the Pivotal Seat, don't know what it will weight.

newwwws

2008-06-13T12:01:00.003+02:00

New Colour for the Riot:
- new Bada Boom Handlebar in 31,8mm and 1,5" or 2" Rise forDH/Fr
- Underboss Stem in 25,4 and 31,8mm,

The Blk Mrkt Rigid fork ist not availible at the moment because carter is waiting for new tubes to build some

Mutiny Pivotal seat:

Atmosfair Pivotal Seat:

Fit Bikes Seats and Seatposts:
more news will be online soon

blkmrkt Rigid Fork pictures/Riot Test

2008-05-19T21:30:00.003+02:00

Here some pics of the new blkmrkt Rigid Fork!

Alloy Inserts:

Sicklines tested the Riot!

Colony Fantastic Plastic Pedals Update

2008-05-19T15:08:00.003+02:00

At the top you can see the new colony plastic pedals. A picture of the pedals will be given later!
We can delight us about a colourful august!

Proper News

2008-05-19T15:03:00.004+02:00

The new product from Proper will be available in many sick colors. And they are very light, too. The 25T Team Sprockets weigh only 65g. You can find more here.

MacMahone News

2008-05-19T14:01:00.004+02:00

MacMahone will bring out a really light steel handlebar, it will weigh 330g: the clamp diameter is 25,4mm! The handelbar is multi butted and heat-treated. About the geometry we only know that you will get it in 1" and 2" Rise.

Friends of the color white will find some nice news for them:

And a new freeride completebike and new kneeprotection will be available soon.

Colony 2.5 Crankset

2008-05-19T12:28:00.003+02:00

In september 2007 we got the news that colony is about to build a lite crank. The 2-piece idea has now changed to a 2,5 pieced version with 19mm axle 48 toothed. The reason for this is simple: crank and axle cannot be heat-treated together; people who see the pictures of broken khe hindenburg 2pc know why. There is no hint if the weight of 755g is actually, but the crankset will apear in august 2008.
The streetversion has 2 length 170 and 175mm, there is also a flatland version with microgear only and 160mm length. It is availible in black, white and limited in grey and tangerine.

Ilegal Sprocket

2008-05-19T12:24:00.004+02:00

Ilegal creats a new sprocket in 25 T and 28 T. You can get it in black, purple, red, green und orange. Weight: 50g (25T) and 57g (28T). Don't know when the sprockets will be available.

Rock Shox Boxxer

2008-05-19T12:19:00.004+02:00

There are some pictures of the new Boxxer. I think it looks really nice!

New Seats and Seatposts from Shadow

2008-05-19T10:43:00.002+02:00

Shadow brings out a seat and an seat post with the pivotal system. Like all other pivotal seatposts it weight about 97g, the seats weight 258g. The new normal Slim Seats(non pivotal) weigh 320g.

New Dobermann Slopstyle-Fully

2008-05-19T10:36:00.002+02:00

The New Dobermann Slopstyle fully is nearlly finished. It will have 90 mm supspension and the chaintube has 400mm - like the Pinscher Hardtail. The frame will weigh about 3 kg, the finished frame will be a lite bit lighter. More Features: Spanish BB

2008-05-04T22:22:00.003+02:00

Like Odyssey declared the Pvc pedal will be available in 2 new colours: purple and flourescent red.

Also in the program: Magnesium release of the Trailmix pedal, alas 488g (sealed) respectively. 480g (loose balls) "heavy".

2008-05-03T10:26:00.002+02:00

New Charge Bikes Site / Plastik Pins

Charge Bikes, the producer of Titanframes has a new site.

Sounds quite strange, but you can tune your pedals with plastic pins and save some weight. The pics show the difference of 16 plastic and steal pins. If they keep alive is a big question.

Po1nt Vorbauten

Just 129g (31,8) or 122g (25.4) weights the 50mm long stem from Po1nt. The light "Split Second DM" DH Stem is available in black and nickled and available for 119 USD. it fits to als Direct Mount Forks.

Beside that, the Split Secong stem has nice feature like an integrated ahead cap. The weight is 137g and you must imagine, that you save the weight of an ahead cap.here are more infos!

USB Stem Prototyp

Only one pic and no infos at Union Street Bikes

Intense Tyre Systems Micro Knobby 26”

At the Weekend i saw the tire at Carter Hollands Bike, now it is available at the shops. The tire is quite disappointly with the weight: the 26x2.25 weights 690g. The tire rolls really good: no question: it has much more than 7500 Knobbys. The Price is about 39,99usd.

Sittin' on chrome

Beside brown the new colour at Blkmrkt: chrome!

Snafu Mayweathers Cranks

Snafu builts beside bmx stuff really light Cranks. With 850 gramm weight is the crank just mean value, but you can trust at the stability and tune the crank with titan bolts and axis.

• 1” pipes with 1.2mm walls
• 19mm 48T CrMo axis
• Sprockets lower than 23 tears are possible
• Lenghts: 170mm, 175mm, 180mm
• weight: 850g complete

Odyssey Clear PVC Pedalen

According to Odyssey is the "Clear PVC Pedals" Prototyp test done and a packet of pedals on the way to the distributions.

Ride Lite ridelite.de works!

It takes a long time, but the domain ridelite.de finally works!!

T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds Dirt-Sessions

A long day at the playgrounds is done. In spite of bad light, a lot of dust and a lot of noise i did some nice shots. Fotos and vids on Freecaster.tv,
Rancings at the Mtb sector:
1. Paul Bassagoita
2. Lance Mc Dermott
3. Phil Sundbaum
4. Simon Kirchmann

2008-04-05T12:47:00.002+02:00

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.

2008-04-05T12:27:00.002+02:00

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!

2Soulscycles Flatpedals "Red D"

2008-04-04T23:46:00.003+02:00

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

2008-04-04T23:36:00.002+02:00

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

Supplement to F1rst airfork by RST - Weight is 1,45kg!
Supplement to Animal's transparent plastic pedals: in May you can get it at DoubleXStore!

RST / MacMahone 2009

2008-04-04T23:29:00.002+02:00

"F1rst" is the name of the new more stable RST airshock/-fork.

If you ride downhill you'll like the revised "R1" with Boxxer-Direct-Mount-Stem-bridge - so you can install some lite stems!

The "Storm" fork has a new air-system. The "Storm Lux" modell can be adjusted steplessly from 100 til 160mm travel.

2 new completes from MacMahone!

Rock Shox/RST 2009

2008-04-04T23:24:00.003+02:00

Unfortunately we have nearly no information about this parts, but some pictures. Above new Rock Shox Argyle in purple with 80mm with color-fiting Truvativ parts, down you see RST fork - both in 2009er style!

Thanks to Aaron for the pictures!

NS Bikes 2008 arrived!

2008-04-04T23:23:00.000+02:00

Get it here: Klick

Lite Collection

2008-04-03T23:17:00.005+02:00

Just a small collection with lite stuff:

Good news for steel-fans: The Aktarus "Slacker" bar has holes to reduce the weight - the facts:
Material: CrMo 4130 multibutted
Wide: 680mm
Rise: 85mm
Backsweep: 8"
Upsweep: 6"
Weight: 400g
Colors: raw or black
Price: ca. 70 Euro

The Sequencefab stem would fit this bar, the shortest version (26mm) weighs only 168g - we write about it in August 2007.

The MacMahone crank "Reign" is now available in white - as 170 and 175mm version.

Last but not least: Bicycle Union has got a new pivotal seat.

Marzocchi 2009

2008-04-01T22:26:00.003+02:00

Orme publishs the first pictures of the 2009s Marzocchi forks. It works with the new 15mm-axle-system of Shimano (1670g), but there is still a normal QR version (1620g). Travel can be adjusted step by step (140, 120 and 100mm) or steplessly (140-100mm) via ATA. There is no information considering to the old problems of ATA, but Marzocchi does a lite step towards the future! The public can see the fork on 4.4.2008, so maybe the name is "44".

Tune Bobo / Felt / Eastern

2008-04-01T22:17:00.002+02:00

Tune has a new lite headset called "Bobo". It weighs real 80,2g including "GumGum" claw, which is a kind of silicone rubber consist (only 8,5g), as well as carbon cap, which weighs only 4,9g with screw. There is also a semi-integrated version with 65g complete. Price: 111 Euro.

Felt has got a new pivotal in stock; Eastern Bikes offeres the "Pinner" seat (292g), known from the complete bikes like Nighttrain.

2008-03-12T22:57:00.002+01:00

NS Bikes 2008 weights

They, who're going to use the "search" option on RideLite is going to find a lot of NS bikes Stuff. The polish company did some information about their future and weight!

Forks:
RNS 1,49kg
Fundamental 1,64kg

Frames:
Suburban 24" 2,3kg
Suburban 26" 2,4kg
Capital 24" only 2,3kg
Bitch 2,8kg
Surge 2,8kg
Society M 2,2kg
Society L 2,3kg

Hubs:
Roller Simple 20 168g
Coaster SS Pro 503g

Beside that, in 2009 there is a new bar on the market, which is produced in co operation with Soul-Kozak. The weight fits to the material. ( pictures are very bad, i'm soryy for that; they're vfrom Pinkbike)

2008-03-12T22:53:00.002+01:00

Shared Stuff

I collected some hot news:

blkmrkt with new Adam Hauck Signature Grips.

Deity prooved their Products and shows a lighter seatpost ( 268g) and lighter Seatclamp (36g)

Animal goes with the trend, too. They released Polycarbonat pedals, they weight 357g. The Animal " Steve Hamilton Plastic pedals" are comming in black, violett green and transparent.

2008-03-12T22:40:00.002+01:00

Coloured Shadow stuff available

Shadow put their parts in a bucket of paint. The Halflink Chain is available in white, green, violett and red.The weight is about 400g+.

Coloured,too; but not light at all "Nostra" with 622g.

2008-03-12T22:37:00.002+01:00

more PVC: Colony Fantastic Plastic

We are sorry, but more infos than "very light" are not available.

Samoon comes to europe

at the beginning of the year we wrote about Samoon, but now we got the news that the frame is available in the UK for 350€. Available are the 24" and 26" at 5 colours.

2008-03-12T22:35:00.001+01:00

Primo Josh Stricker PC Pedals

Primo does it like other companies and releases Pedals with pvc pins. The price isn't known yet, exactly like the weight.

2008-03-12T22:32:00.002+01:00

Animal Wedge System

At this point, you had to be creative and needed some kind of tool time flavour. But no do it yourself stuff any more, thanks to Animal and their Wedge System. The fitting is comparable with the old 1" steams and the seat clamp isn't used any more.

2008-03-12T22:27:00.002+01:00

Rock Shox Maxle Lite

The answer of Sram to the 12mm axle System of Shimanois called Maxle Lite. It saves about 50g to a normal 20mm axle and is optional for the new Reba forks.
The fitting wide is 110x20mm as usual. Which system is the better one will be shown in future, but theres the fact, that QR20 is just to hard.

2008-03-12T22:21:00.002+01:00

Shared news

Some new news are available now:

Hayes is going to bring out a new brake, which is allowed to be called "light". The Gram weights about 355gramms. The Ace just weights 431g, but is completely ready for Dh which two bolts per site. The new devise of hayes is clear: Make it light!

Shodow does it the Pivotal was. A bad Preview is this Scan:

Pvc is the trend, but is it good at all? That it isn't shows this picture of an Seawright Sprocket, which was released a few days ago: Link.

Stay tuned!

2008-03-12T13:27:00.002+01:00

We're real sorry for that lack of information! Our editor Djingis was real busy in the last weeks - but stay tuned, he's about to update the english blog!

Short News

2008-02-22T14:42:00.002+01:00

The 2008er Leafcycles program is now also in the Onlineshop of DoubleXStore, only few clicks to competent parts: Link.

With delay also the 2008er Ride Lite shirts from printering arrived, now you can refer position to lite weight!

Leafcycles 08!

2008-02-22T13:59:00.005+01:00

"Bing" - got mail from Frank Heinrich, owner of Leafcycles. He wrote me to have a look at his new website - all 2008 products are online. The best thing: a lot of lite stuff! So check out: leafcycles.eu.
10 minutes later mail.app rings again, DoubleXStore has the new stuff in stock!

The whole productline is really nice - specially the colorchoice. The "Mescal Edition" is brandnew , pivotal seats and posts are part of it. The posts are available as stumps (25,4mm; 98-99g) and "normal" version (27,2mm; 229g) in purple and black for a real fair price. Matching seats are in stock, too - a slimseat (267g) and a bigger one (329g).

Helicopter front (198g) and back (472g; 10mm axle, freewheel) hub are available in purple and black, costs are very low - only 69,90 Euro! If you have a cassette-hub you can get cogs starting with 12t.

D.one and OS frames are purchasable.

The D.one frame weighs 2889g and has two new colors: purple and an impressing neon-green (must see!) - Eastwood bar (598g) has matching colors and the black box stem (ca. 250g)and Logo seatclamps have a nice colorline too. The OS frames disappoints a bit - it weighs 3186g, but just a nice geometry, you can get it in white and grey! Also in stock: Lite magnesium Pedals (around 370g) and alloy pedals (540g; 34,90 Euro) in nice colors (white, black an neon-green/-yellow).

Result: Leafcycles plays the trump card 2008 with a very beautiful product range, beautiful colors and meaningful parts at really fair prices.

Kowa Suspension

2008-02-21T14:37:00.002+01:00

In April 2007 we reported about Kowa. Now the USA has a new distribution. The fork on the the pictures is the "160Ss Air" Modell (renamed to "brooklyn" by brooklyn machine works),; it has a lot of interesting features like airsuspension and easy traveladjustment, you can choose between 20 and 160mm steplessly - so this fork satisfies a large target group.
It has got a light hollow-crown with 35mm hard ano coated sanchions and is built for 20mm-axles. On the top of the left leg is an aluminum knob for travel adjustment. Turn the knob 180 degrees to the open position, and the travel can be adjusted from fully extended to fully compressed. Airchamber via shrader valve at the bottom of the left leg, external rebound via aluminum knob on the bottom of the right leg.

Our last information is 2390g including axle and 750 Euro.

2008-02-17T22:05:00.003+01:00

Sunn Radical: 15.5kg

This real nice Sunn Radical is often seen on the interent. on the one hand a very fine DH bike, on the other hand a damn light race mchine.An dh bike with 15.5kg is in spite of new technologies very rear.
here some facts:

- SUNN Radical High Polish Anodized frame with complete Titanium bolts/axles.
- SRAM X.O / Truvativ Howitzer OCT 36 crank - MRP carbon "custom" Chain Device - KMC chain.
- RockShox Vivid 5.1 rear shock with titanium spring.
- RockShox Boxxer fork with custom titanium internal specs and set up.
- Wheelset DT Swiss 240s hub, 5.1 rims and titanium spokes.
- Seat - seat post SDG.
- Control tech House carbone 710mm handlebar - Stem UN rad.
- Formula "ONE" silver polished 200mm brakes.
- Hutchinson Barracuda 2.3 tires.
- Wellgo mag titanium pedals.

An expensive change...

... -welcome to the range of little tuning for a lot of money. The switch of boltss is the last way to lighten your bike. Titanium and aluminium bolts replacing old steel bolts. And this is very expensive! One gramm less, costs more than one euro. The first step was the Pivotalbolt from steel to alu: 20g less for rather 7 Euros. Additional my underboss stem at 10g by using ti-bolts. And the seatclamp bolt is loses 4 gramm.

A good Place for bying Ti bolts is this shop. Who wnats to do it like me: Every bolt can be changen which is less burden by alu-bolts (for example:seatpostbolts etc.), higly burdened bolts only by Ti-bolts. Do it as long as your financiell situation allows it.

F15Teen Magazine

The new flash magazine F15Teen combines Bmx an fotographics on a very nice way. The Download is for mac & Pc users!

Haunebu F480 Dirt&Street Fork

Haunebu is going back to the Dirt-/Streetscene. They come back with an fixed fork with the installation high of 480mm (which is like a 140mm suspension fork). The headtube is in 1 1/8" and 6mm strong. By this high of installation and the pipe diameter of 31,8mmis the weight with 1,6kg eally nice. (but there exist a lot of more beautifull an more lighter forks). More facts: for 10mm Axis, for 160mm discbrakes.

Dropout tuning:

No, i'm not talking about an light measure, rather about the low-budget thematic. The Problem: 10mm Dropouts, but 12 or 14mm hubs and no money for changes or something new.
The Conditions: Steal-frame and drop outs, which aren't too short and some kind of tootime flavour :) .
You need: File, wire brush, caliper rule, thumbtack, rule, tape, a vice and a cloth. maybe a cutting disc.
Attention: Inform yourself about the guarantie, if you are allowed to customize your frame.
This case handles about a Perv Street, the mother of all low budget bikes.
We bring a 14mm WeThePeaople hub du the frame. The Dropouts at this frame usually are very big, so that no one must think about problems with stability.
We beginn: Save your chainstay by using the cloth and put the frame to the vice and go on. The best was is to file the lower side of the dropout. So you have the guarantie, that the hub not will be fixed wry, even if you file uneven.
If you even have to go to both direction: work fair! The best way ist to use the caliper rule and draw a line, where the last point of filing is. The Tape helps you to illustrate the drawing.
Everybody who filed before knows the lenght of such a process. So you can, if you want, go the first part of the way by your cutting disc. Please youse a new disc, beacuase of contingently sediments on the old disc.
If you do it by the cutting disc, don't trust on your drawing, check it often if you cut on the right way, after cutting finish your work with the file and make it looking good.
A tolerance about 1 mm in the end isn't tragicly.
Note: If you just file in on direkcton, the Geo of the frame changes.

first stroke

2008-02-17T21:05:00.004+01:00

Pivotal-Tuning

Pivotal-Systems are integrated for a time, and not only for bmx riders. Federal used the patent of MacNeil and released a 75mm long and 66g small seatpost and proper slimseats, which weigh 250g. The seatposts (66 und 96g) costs 24,95 Euro,the slimseats 34,95 Euro.

make it more lighter with a Ti6Al4V Ti-bolt from Knight. Indeed it costs about 20 Euros.

you get it at DoubleXStore

Ride Lite is one

At the 9th of February 2007 Ride Lite was born. At first we had a different aim, but it works different than thinks; at this place a little note: "Webzine" includes the old "Online magazine" Since that day 369 articles were posted and we don't see an end. We are going to write good news and to be on the top. Unfortunately we noted, that often the light parts, are not the best ( i'm thinking of alu cranks, plastic parts, etc), but this is, why we are here. Now i have to thank the Double X Store in Dortmund Hombruch,who supports us with good stuff an a lot of know how.
Not unspoken is Frank Heinrich, the man behind Leafcycles – Thanks a lot, that we were allowed to test your D.One, it was an honor. Frank sent us a little Birthdaycard

I don't forget Ulrich „Ulfred“ Nölle of Veltec, who builts my wonderfull wheelset and gives a good tip at every opportunity. Know-how is one of the importants parts of living lite. he sends us a very funny birthdayletter:

„At first: happy birthday and much fun for your future. I used Ride Lite often as an source of information and i was very inspired by the article about the PVC BB.

learning by doing: I tunded the headset of the bike of my daughter. To this point it works great ( ok, the intractable response characteristic sucks). And the Zero BB works great, too.
My daughter loves it, Dad is proud: great!
Thanks Ride Lite!!“

Last but not least a big THANKS to our Reader. You're pushing our counter higher and higher, every day. Your support was good at all, too. many thanks for your Trust and loyalty.

Of course we have a little present for you: We show you our Video Podcastlist:

Animal Commencal Podcast (MTB)
The BMX Show / The B. S.
BMX Video Cast by Zen Distribution
Brooklyn Surfer: BMX Team
Charge Bikes (MTB)
Circle BMX Videocast
DC-Shoe – BMX Team
DIG-IT BMX Podcast
Etnies BMX Video Podcast
GrindTV Exclusive (BMX)
iRyde.tv Actionsport Videocast (BMX)
The Last Podcast (MTB) – an dieser Stelle ein Gruß an Saddam „Kebap“ von Manga Sports
Levis BMX
Little Devil TV (BMX)
Norco Performance Bikes (MTB)
Square One Official Podcast (BMX)
Switch Mountain Bike / BMX Videocast
Vans Podcast (Europe, UK, BMX)
WTP Podcast (BMX)
Yeti Cycles – Video Podcast

have much fun while watching!

We're going to stay at all and hope for a year, full of glory und low weights.

- Pesling and the whole Ride Lite Team

Deity twothousandandeight

Hier is the new site of Deity!

Home Improvement / Quick Checks

No, we're not going to work with hammer and scissor, but we're going to use a cutting disc, a file and a carpet cutter. Reducing the weight is often the serach for little details.

We start at the pedals. It's rather not about the weight, it's about the look. So we kill every refelctor mounting by using our file.if someone is interested in: it lightened the pedals about 12g. But don't forget, you're losing your guarantee.

if we're talking about pedals: my NC-17 Mags are used since nearly 1,5 years. The bearings are running as at the first day, the money i spent was spent right, the more so as the orignial weight is about 369g. A possible tuning opportunity is the Ti axis as rather killing the reflector mountings. Available here, and Leafcycles releases Mags in very cool colours.
At such a light pedal, i can't understand the hype about the plastic pedals. Sure, new materials are very interesting, but at the internet, some people critized the plastic stuff hard with "recycling bmx" and so on. Fact is, that plastic pedals are good for flatland and by normal use not alive for a long time. The use of mags is the definitely better way of spending your money.

We go on the simple way. killing the flangue: 40g!

racing cycle barends weigh 4g. The looks sucks, the weight not.

This Product isn't new yet, but i want to show a weight-picture: the taywan version of the blkmrkt Underboss stem - 44,90 Euro for 177g nice elox look (we weight some stems and the tolerance is about 3 gramm).

MacNeil Conjoined Cranks

MacNeil falls below the Demolition Medial Cranks with their newest production suppositionally that the official details are right. The set with Ti axis weights 676g, the CrMo version 814g (both without bolts and bearings). The reliable 48-fold tooth system with a diameter of 19mm, "super strong" Sanko Japan pipes (270g per crank) and "Graphics that drive the bitches wild" are some details. The cranks are available in black and white. bye and weigh!

Tonic Fab Howie available

We presented the frame some weeks ago, but now, Tonic released the 26" frame. The price is about 700 USD, and you have to add some duties. No bargain at all, but for real individuums a good choice.

The facts:

Price: $700 (ca. 473 Euro )
BB: Mid
HT: Integrated.
TT length: 22.25"
HT Angle: 69
ST Angle: 72
CS Length: 15.25"
Seat Tube C-C: 10"
Seat Post: 27.2
Weight: 5.25lbs (ca. 2,38kg)
Colors: Mint Green, Baby Blue, Grey. Or Custom.

here we go again....

2008-02-17T20:57:00.002+01:00

Ok Dudes, at this point we're going to bring our webzine to the english speech. I will sum up the blog events every week. So, you get a big posting once in a week and you don' stay ignorantly :) .

cheers
djingis