Crank Bros Egg Beater S pedal £99.95 Raleigh Crank Brothers’ original Egg Beater pedal made fairly significant waves on its debut. The Beater’s unique four-sided mechanism had a...
We don’t always tell you about every single new product that we get wind of because, well, a lot of them are a bit dull....
UK cable specialist Clark’s have announced a bunch of new stuff. First up, the new Pre-Lube cables should be of interest to anyone who’s fed...
Most observers agree that the 2004 RockShox range is a bit, well, unexciting. There was always a suspicion that the company was saving itself for...
As we’ve previously mentioned, this is the time of year when bike industry product managers are busily speccing next year’s bikes. Which means that they...
This is the 2005 Manitou Nixon fork. 2005? Er, yes. Welcome to the crazy world of the bike industry calendar. Thing is, “2005” bikes will be...
Shimano PDM520 pedals £29.95 Madison Shimano’s top-end PDM-959 SPD pedals have been around for a while. Their mud-shedding design, with a revised retention mechanism, cut-away body and Teflon-coated...
Avid Speed Dial Ultimate levers £129.99 Raw Experience 0131 440 2010 Yes, you are reading the price right – £129.99 for a pair of brake levers. Frighteningly these aren’t...
This is Schwalbe’s new Racing Ralph tyre, part of the all-new Evolution line. Evolution is a grab-bag of cunning tyre technologies all intended to get...
Pace RC31 fork £169 Pace 01751 432929 Remember rigid forks? Once upon a time, forks weren’t telescopic, didn’t have springs inside and were made of steel. In this age...
BETD ETA lever £12 BETD 01782 629462 OK, everyone stand up. Now sit down if you don’t own a Marzocchi fork with ETA or ECC lockdown levers. And then...
SRAM X.7 shifters/mech Rear mech £44.99; shifters £45.99 Fisher Outdoor 01727 798345 For years and years, mountain bikers have had a choice of essentially two shifting systems. In the...
No sooner had we posted our review of Continental’s Vapor XC/enduro tyre and mentioned that we were looking forward to the promised 2.3in version than...
Continental Vapor 2.1 ProTection tyres £26.95 Cambrian Tyres Continental tyres have a good reputation in the UK. They’re doubtless hoping that the new Vapor tyre will follow in...
Italian forkmeisters Marzocchi have had the digital decorators in and revamped their website. The new-look site also contains details of the 2004 range. There’s not,...
Shimano Deore LX M752 cranks £69.95 Madison 0845 603 4612 Where would we be without cranks? Riding hobby-horses and scooters, that’s where. And that would never do. There’s been...
This is the production version of the new USE Atom stem, an all-British handlebar-holding contrivance with a host of neat touches.
Forge Shifters £65 (silver); £67 (black); £36-38 (mounts only) www.forge-mtb.com 01452 386999 You’ve probably noticed that there’re a few different sorts of shifter on the market these days. Shimano’s...
Marzocchi MX Pro ETA forks £279 www.marzocchi.com Windwave 023 9252 1912 Over the years, Marzocchi have built up a well-deserved reputation for reliable and top-performing forks. And every year...
Avid Ball-Bearing 185mm disc brakes £99.99 www.avidbike.com Raw Experience 0131 440 2010 Avid’s cable-driven disc brakes have been around for a while, and have a good reputation. These power-enhanced...
We’ve just taken delivery of this curious-looking device. It’s a Rotor Systems crank, a Spanish invention designed to eliminate the “dead spot” when pedalling. If...
Thanks to Shimano’s rigidly-enforced press embargo, there’s a fair chance that you’ve already seen these only-officially-released-today pictures. They’ve been all over everywhere, after all. Still,...
Those with an affinity for obscure bike parts may remember SRAM’s last foray into trigger shifters. The Gemini never made it onto the market for...
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