The Xtracycle PeaPod Longtail Bike Child Seat 2011 is a new multi-modal vehicle for family cycling capable of transporting little kids. Its recommended weight limit is 20-49 lbs and 10 lbs for the item weight, including all its accessories. With its Xtracyle stoker kit, this item can carry more cargo or another heavier older child riding on the flight deck. When two PeaPods are mounted on the Xtracycle, two children can be carried. It is also designed to carry groceries or other cargo on its side bags.

This Xtracycle PeaPod item is made with lead and phthalate-free plastic, which is also impact resistant. The safe and comfortable features of PeaPod include its nylon harness system, padded chest straps and seat cover, adjustable foot stirrups, and comfort grip lap handle. Moreover, the PeaPod is also available for use with other bikes such as Kona Ute Longtail bike and standard bikes…

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Yes it’s official. It has been recently announced that Bontrager is the Leopard Trek Team’s official helmet. It’s a carbon fiber-reinforced pro-caliber racing oracle helmet that maximizes ventilation, which will first debut in action at the Santos Tour Down Under.

Ricardo Scheidecker, the team’s technical manager, is very enthusiastic and confident about the team’s official helmet in which he acclaims its security and durability. He believes that the Oracle helmet has brought it to the next level in terms of its design and innovation that Bontrager has implemented.

Two aspects of innovation has been implemented to achieve maximum ventilation of the oracle helmet and to make sure that it keeps its low profile – Bontrager Helmet Product Manager, Al Clark said. Maximum optimization of vent shape and placement through the provision of CFD-aided design, including the critical front center channel vent, was the first aspect. Second, Structural integrity and load…

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The new and improved SRAM 1091R PowerChain is the latest feature from the world’s leading bike parts manufacturer, SRAM. This utilitarian bike chain provides the latest advancement only SRAM can provide.

The SRAM 1091R Powerchain features outer plates that are heavily chamfered to improve the quality of your bike’s shifting as well as provides a silent run. The new 1091R chain also features an improved inner plate finish. 1091R chain sports a chrome hardened pin construction for a longer and better chain life, too.

The help of SRAM’s HollowPin technology gives these powerchains added plate retention strength, shifting efficiency for both front and rear shifting and low weight benchmarks that are unreachable in solid pin chain applications. The SRAMs’ 10 speeds PowerChain also provides precise movements without sacrificing strength.

SRAM has infused the 1091R PowerChains with PowerLock technology, which is a tool free and certain way of connecting all 10 speed chains…

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Stevens Bike presents its 2011 Carbon Team DA for cyclocross. Light for easy lifting, it can be equipped with Ultegra or Dura Ace components and is stiff and powerful at the helm with a carbon fork, Mavic Ksyrium system wheels and FSA cantilever brakes.

With Oxygen handlebar, stem, and 2-bolt seatpost, the Carbon Team DA runs on Schwalbe Rocket Ron tires. Swift and flexible with Litefoam Oxygen Speedline saddle to keep you on your seat as you race through the mud and uphills.

The 2011 Stevens Carbon Team DA comes in sizes of 52, 54, 56, 58, and 61cm. Weighing 7.9 kg, MSRP is €2,799 with €1,299 for the frame only. …

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What could be one of the coolest things that could happen this year? I bet there could be hundreds on your list but for sure I’d include Battalgin Full Dynamix Mountain Bikes conquering the U.S. Yes! The Full Dynamix Brand with all of its six frames, coming with a variety of component specs from Shimano and SRAM, will be brought to American soil. So expect one of the most high-end bikes out and made from the latest technology and the power of intelligence at its finest from Italy being brought to the U.S. Now let’s have a look at them.

First stop is the SWAT. Owning this bike simply doesn’t make you just any rider. Rigidity and power through a saddle with its 960g high performance frame, an all carbon that uses a seat mast, the SWAT is best for its lightweight. It comes with 100mm Rock Shox SID World…

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StringDrive, a company based in Hungary, claims that the current bicycle designs together with the drive chain and gears placed on one side makes the ride an asymmetric riding experience that might just be inefficient. And as such, the company StringDrive has announced that they might have created a new and better technology that will give riders a smoother and better ride in the form of their StringBike.

StringDrive’s StringBike uses two similar drive units that run in opposing directions on either side of the bike. The drive unit’s arm swings back and forth when the pedals are turned that in turn pulls a set of steel ropes placed conveniently on either side of the bike, which causes a drum and the rear wheel to rotate.

As you continuously pedal, the mechanisms on both sides of the bike move in perfect symmetry as well as constantly driving the rear wheel making…

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Shoe Company Teva has released initial images for their first ever line of shoes specifically designed for cyclists called Links.

These free ride shoes are a snug fit for your feet as well as for your flat pedals and will released to the market next fall. The new shoe has a sole that is made from Teva’s unique proprietary Spider365 sticky rubber and was specifically designed to work perfectly with the platform of a freeride bike pedal.

The Teva Link, designed by Teva together with professional mountain biker Jeff Lenosky, also has a flexible yet strong armor in key wear areas and uses a complete water protection system for the shoe called “ion-mask” technology.

No exact release date and price but the Teva Link will be available in stores by fall….

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