The SRAM 500 TT Shifter is the one to solve the old way of using your bike’s shifters. This smart product is the company’s latest entry-level in offering the bar-end shifter category.
The SRAM 500 TT shifter was designed to work with any SRAM road transmission but at the same time work in a conventional way. With the left hand lever, it is constrained by a friction mechanism, this way the right hand lever clicks within any one of the 10 positions and stays there. It is way different than that of the SRAM’s top-end, the R2C mechanism that returns the right hand lever to its central position after each shifting, producing no friction.
Levers are fixed at both end of the bars by using the standard split sleeve with its plastic case, the ring springs but the expanding bolt of its left-hand thread tightens the housing as done by…
For years, the company Marzocchi has been redesigning and creating something out of the ordinary forks that’s riders have. This year, they finally made that happen resulting to the new Marzocchi Corsa Super Leggera forks.
Complete with the right design this time, this is probably the lightest Marzocchi fork that has been created for years. It took them a year to come up with an intricate design, making changes and such that optimizes each part via finite element analysis. With this they produced a 1.49kg (or 3.28 lbs) 80/100mm travel fork.
To reduce weight since less oil is needed, a new low AER air system is added to this with a fixed piston in the closed cartridge. They also redesigned the damping system. Now the threshold valve can be adjusted through a top-mounted dial. There is also a remote bar mounted lockout lever for it be adjusted.
They also paid…
In the past couple of years, a trend in adjustable seat posts have been popular among riders. Most of those adjustable seat posts were concentrated on mountain bikes where the ability of the cyclist to drop the saddle just a few inches can really help riders during downhill rides and drops.
The company RockShox has created their own adjustable seat posts into the market, calling it the Reverb. This genius design was created for adjustable seat post that offers 125mm or 4.92 inches of adjustment through its hydraulically remoted handlebar lever and yes, the return speed of this craft is also adjustable at the remote.
Durability and quality is good since there is a triple-lipped energized sealing system that prevents any dirt deposits. Almost weightless, the Rock Shox Reverb seat post is made from 7050 forged alloy with a zero offset 3D forged alloy head.
For other options, this seat…
After introducing the Plasma 2 last year at the Giro d’Italia, Team HTC is again using this bike for this the same event with a few renovations on the last year’s bike. Formula 1 aerodynamacist Simon Smart, together with his team is making the changes on this year’s Plasma 3.
This year, the changes can be found on the much lower front end of this bike. Complete with a Missile Evo aero bar, the stem is directly in line with the top tube. They also customized the bar with multiple mounting holes for the arm rests and extensions making it adjustable at the arm’s rest heights and three stem lengths.
Racer and four time Italian Nation time trial champion Marco Pinotti prefers his base bar grips fairly low but extensions are a bit higher with narrow spaces as high as 19cm that is why this new renovation is made that way…
Venturing into the bike enterprise is the automotive giant Bosch with their first ever, new electronic drive system e-bike. It will be spec’d by Cannondale. Bob Burbank, general manager of Cannodale said that it will be marketed firstly in Europe. It will be showcased as a high-end Cannondale bike at Eurobike on its debut.
Both companies have collaborated on its engineering and design for more than a year and came out with an advanced performance and technology driven e-bike system that promises to be unique from anything else in the market. Cannondale and Bosch partnership is not exclusive. Bosch is looking to selling its drive system to other makers of e-bike.
Burbank declared, “We didn’t want a me-too product or slap on a current system, ‘Hey Cannondale’s got an e-bike.’ We wanted to work with a partner to make a system that would stand out.”
Rainer Jeske, head of Bosch Powertrain Systems,…
USA Triathlon and Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association have recently reported an increase on the number of people joining the triathlon population. As of 2009, the SGMA reported that there were 1.2 million on-road triathlon participants. For off-road triathlon, there were 666,000 participants.
The numbers for the on-road triathletes equal that of a 11.1% growth last year and a 51.4% growth since 2007. As for the off-road triathletes, the number is a 10.6% increase with a 37.9% increase from 2007. Last March 31, USA Triathlon’s membership reached 133,000 which is a 24.8% growth in comparison to March 2009’s members of 31,000.
Skip Gilbert, USAT CEO shares his thoughts over the data gathered. “The continued growth of the multisport lifestyle across all disciplines and distances is a strong reflection of this country’s desire to focus on healthy living. Incorporating not one but a multitude of sports into an individual’s training and competition schedule has…
Floyd Landis’ allegations led to naming several cyclists accused of doping as well as a UCI official being on the take. The World Anti-Doping Agency and Union Cycliste International (UCI) both gave statements in response to the events that have transpired after Landis’ revelations.
Pat McQuaid, UCI President, expressed his thoughts over the allegations Landis gave, branding them as “scandalous and mischievous”. McQuaid further adds, “These guys coming out now with things like this from the past is only damaging the sport. If they’ve any love for the sport they wouldn’t do it.”
UCI issued a statement on Landis’ move to allow his allegations in the Wall Street Journal. The statement reads:
“The UCI regrets that Mr. Landis has publicly accused individuals without allowing sufficient time for the relevant US authorities to investigate. An impartial investigation is a fundamental right, as Mr. Landis will understand having contested, for two years, the evidence…
