Gear Talk

debatable or not, ceramic bearings are trick and roll supersmooth(yes it's one word) check out this company that makes bearings for any bike you ride

Boca Bearings

okay this roadie stuff is getting insane Now tubulars(i now am a tubular nut) are bleeding into the mtn bike world. Tufo who makes tubulars etc is now making them for the mtn bike market. interesting concept. check it out

tufo mtn bike tires

i have a brand new bike(10 months old). i am having alot of problems with my fox float rp3. i took it back with the shock in the stuck down position. a week later and $45 i pick my bike up. about 20 minutes into the ride i have no suspension(stuck down again). my bike has now been in the shop for 3 more weeks and i still don't have it back. my question is are these shocks fixable at a local shop? or should they be sent right to the manufacter to be repaired?

Hey, I was hoping to get some input on this one. Since I recently got a new bike, I have been kicking around what I want to do with my old bike. I have look into a single speed for tooling around town on. I was reading you can change out the casset and remove the derailer and put in a spring loaded tensionor. I was also thinking about making it into a single speed but changing the hub so it can't coast, anyone ride anything like that? But I am also more interested in making it closer to a road bike for riding to the gym, or around town.

Any ideas?

Trek offers up a sneak peek at its mountain bike lineup for 2008
By James Huang in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Trek offered up a sneak peek
Photo ©: James Huang
Last year's 'R1' evolution of Trek's simple-but-proven single pivot suspension designs was certainly a step in the right direction. However, those improvements probably should have been made years ago, and the upgrades essentially just brought Trek up to about even with its competition rather than create truly innovative product, at least in terms of suspension design.

Anyone have any opinions, or stories on Haro mountain bikes?

I have a Marzocchi Marathon XC (air/oil one side, coil/oil on the other) which I trashed last night. I may have blown out some seal or valves in the air side, since it seems soft and the compression damping is totally gone -- when it happened I bottomed out hard and there was sound like a paper bag being popped.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows what might be going on inside my fork, what may be needed to repair it, and most important: can anyone recommend a shop that can service my fork?

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