Slackers, made by Vince, the guy who machines parts for Intense Bikes, is a new product designed to take your Uzzi and Socom and make them a little more downhill friendly. What they are exactly is replacement dropouts that bolt on to your bike. They are very simple to install and if you understand how they are bolted to the rear triangle you will have no trouble with the install.

For those of you that don’t know what a Gravity Dropper is, it is a seatpost that you can adjust while riding. If you get the version with the handlebar mounted thumb switch (which I highly recommend), you can change your seat height at any time, while riding.

At first the uses might not be as obvious as you would think. Normally you have to raise your seat to climb, and lower it to descend. This is what this product was designed for. For this it works perfect.

Crank Brothers Mallet 2 Pedals – 8.4ozs (238gms) each
Crank Brothers 5050X Pedals- 11.2ozs (317gms) each
Crank Brothers Candy SL Pedals – 5.1ozs (144gms) each

Stans No Tubes Rim strip – 2.1 ozs (59.5gms)

Kenda Nevegal 26×2.1 – 21.3ozs (604gms)
Maxxis Flyweight Tube – 4.2ozs (119gms)
Continental Mountain King Supersonic 26×2.4 – 20.1ozs (570gms)
Maxxis Minion DHF 26×2.35 Kevlar bead – 27.6ozs …

Specs: 26″x 2.4″ Actual width 2.3″ Weight 1lb. 4oz. (570gm)

These are just great, all around tires. They are very light, so light in fact that you need to baby them a bit. The side walls are very thin and the …

Specs: 26″x2.1″ Actual width 2.1″ Weight 1lb. 5oz. (603gm)

I would like to say that I could agree with MBA magazine that these are the best tires ever. Problem is I cant. Granted I don’t have 127 different tires to compare to each other, …

A few weeks back I tried some very technical terrain that was beyond my current ability. At the time I had the pedals installed on the Yeti and found that I never …

There have been plenty of reviews about the Mallet, so I wont be breaking any ground here. These are good solid platform pedals if you want to be clipped in. They are lightweight, very well …