Slackers Droputs for Intense Uzzi’s and SoCom’s

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 [...]

Read more...

No Comments

Gravity Dropper Seat Post

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 [...]

Read more...

No Comments

Weights of Things

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 [...]

Read more...

No Comments

Continental Mountain King Supersonic 2.4 Tires

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 tread isnt much thicker.  Twice I got flats from very small thorns. On the flip [...]

Read more...

No Comments

Kenda Nevegal 2.1 Tires

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, but against what I do have, the Nevegals come in last.
The best [...]

Read more...

No Comments

Crank Bros 5050 Platform Pedals

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 clipped in all day as I was a bit nervous about the obsticles I was having to navigate.This pretty much led me [...]

Read more...

No Comments

Crank Bros Mallet 2 Pedals

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 built, and look good as well.
Weight wise my set comes in at 238gm’s each (8.4oz’s each)
They come as a complete [...]

Read more...

No Comments