Sea Otter: Random Roundup #2
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Sea Otter: Random Roundup #2

April 17, 2011

Here’s another random selection of products for you from the pits of the Sea Otter…

We’ll start a little offbeat with some disc-brake cyclocross action courtesy of TRP who has an under-stem mounted gizmo that turns your cable pulls into hydraulic action. Now that the UCI has relaxed the rules about discs in cross racing, perhaps we’ll start to see more. Good for road touring too…

Cross bikes with discs? They're coming...

 

Tiny and neat TRP hydraulic

 

Brake cables feed in the front and pull little hydraulic actuators which then work the brakes.

 

It's Tinker Juarez! (and another guy...)

 

A Spot Brand, belt-drive singlespeed (or is that a Rohloff?) with a Maverick fork. Niche!

 

Spot was showing some lovely town bikes. This one has the first post-mount carbon fork available, plus Alfine and a Gates belt drive.

 

The new Centre-Track Gates belt rings. Lighter and harder wearing than the old system, plus you don't need to run crippling tension.

 

What bike is this? It's the newly updated Santa Cruz Blur XC Carbon with flared head tube.

 

 

It's like the old one, only bigger.

 

Regular rear QR still

 

...and clamp on front mech with threaded BB. So just the new head tube for this model in terms of changes.

 

Gamut is working on some new things, but for the moment, all they could show me that was new was... chainring bolts. Their secret stuff better be good, eh?

 

 

More on this in a bit, but yes, it's a Ritchey, steel, 29er. They're going to be TIG welded in production (this one was made by Tom) and they're going to be for sale soon.

 

You won't get lost in this one.

 

Spotted in Crank Bros' bike rack was this one. It's the first production Charge Bikes Ti Cooker 29er.

 

More big wheel fun from Intense. More on them later too

 

Emily Batty's Trek Top Fuel

 

MRP chainguide/bash. Currently being tested with a carbon backplate.

 

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

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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6 thoughts on “Sea Otter: Random Roundup #2”

  4. i think those chainring bolts from gamut are exciting – allen key on both sides rather than the rubbish normal system. Glad to see more people than just truvativ/sram making these.

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