With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
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Thanks.
Any weights for the Sram XO Silver and info on the 2012 fox 36 float and van?
The SRAM weights are exactly the same as the regular ones, minus the weight of the anodising or paint I reckon…
The 2012 Float and Van are all physically the same (that I can tell), but slipperier. If you give me a specific model (there are hundreds of options), I’ll give you a weight
Cheers Chips. Fox 36 Van 160 rc2 and 36 Float 160 rlc, think they might be called Factory Fox now?
What the RRP (in $) & weight of the X0 22/36 crank?
You didn’t say tapered or non – I told you it was complicated.
Van 36/160 is around 5.12lbs, Float 160RLC is 4.48lbs in Factory spec. I don’t know RRPs yet.
LoL Ta, btw Non.
Ooh that Truvativ bash and guide looks cool, hope it’s not x0 priced though, would it be specific to x0 cranks? Not up to speed with x0
Between trickstuff, Hope and TRP, it looks like 2011-2012 is shaping up to be a great year for people who wants to run hydro discs with drop bars.
What are the grips in image 13?
Cheers.
Not sure about the grips, but as they were in the Shimano booth, I reckon maybe Pro grips?
Aye – they’re Pro Tharis grips
Thanks guys, they look like just my thing, will investigate 😉