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CEDRIC SPILLS THE BEANS?

Posted by Leif on Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Pink Bike has a 15 minute interview wih Cedric Gracia from Sea Otter. CG fills us in on his new team ‘Racing Brigade’, updates us on his recovery from injury last year, and talks us through his V10 & Nickel 4x bike. Did I hear him say that the new V10 is going to be a different material? Hmmm . . . . finally a carbon V10? READ MORE

SANTA CRUZ LAUNCH NEW SUSPENSION ACRONYM – APP

Posted by Leif on Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Today (as you read this) Santa Cruz are unveiling the latest in an impressive line of recent product developments. APP is a new suspension technology that their engineers have been beavering away on for close to 5 years. What is APP? Well the acronym stands for Actual Pivot Point and is, essentially, a single pivot swing arm driving a shock via two interconnected linkages. Seems simple, what’s the big deal? (more pics and videos after the jump) READ MORE

29 Palms

Posted by Leif on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

 Intense have just released photos & info on their latest project. The 2951IntenseWill we see Palmer on one of these next year?

MARIN PILGRIMAGE

Posted by Leif on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
San Rafael single track

San Rafael singletrack

Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to have some spare time in the city of San Francisco. A visit to this part of the world wouldn’t be complete without an excursion to check out the riding in the area that is generally regarded as the birth place of mountain biking, Marin County. READ MORE