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When I was over In Taiwan recently I had a meeting with Keith and Paul from Reynolds to discuss new tubes and to see what exciting things we could expect in the future. Up to now, stainless wise they have only offered 953 which although very amazing is also very expensive and despite the odd sample we’ve never managed to achieve the price we wanted so it’s always gone onto the back ..

The Latitude (think Altitude, but a bit different..) is our steel and ti Trail / XC frame, redesigned for 2011. For the 2011 853 frames, we’ve worked extensively with Reynolds to offer a unique tube set that is strong enough to handle 140mm travel forks without gusseting – it passed the CEN test by a margin of more than twice the test cycles as did our previous 853 frame, but wi..

There have been Genesis 29ers for a more leisure-orientated rider and there is a 29er 853 Genesis that's been doing a few miles here and there since 2007, but it's fair to say that I've not embraced the whole concept until fairly recently. While I appreciate the advantages of 29" wheels, for some reason they just never felt as much fun as our 26" / 120mm trail/singletrack ..

“The great thing about standards is that there’s so many to choose from now” But the new XX-44 headset for semi-integrated head tubes, pioneered by Cane Creek, is a worthy addition to the list. We decided to use this system as soon as we saw it would allow tapered fork steerers into a slimmer headtube than the usual tapered headtubes, plus gave us more room to work with fo..

When we first saw the 8-speed Alfine hub with a disc mount, the iO became the iO ID in a matter of days and a new style of UK mud-plugger was born. A few of us here rode them over the winter and loved the low maintenance compromise between a single-speed and a regular geared bike. So I was really pleased to see these pictures that Day One owner Antony Lomas emailed us the other day, of his Day One..

[singlepic id=432 w=190 h=145 float=left] We've just agreed with DT Swiss for our team riders James Leavesley and Paul Errington to ride DT Swiss suspension forks in 2010 / 2011. On their way to the UK are 2011 XRC Cross Race Carbon 100mm all-carbon forks - and not just with carbon lowers, steerers and crowns, these are the World Championship edition models complete with the WC bands! D..