BOTY 2007 - Voting!

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Mythic Carboncranks - now available in Germany

Mythic Carbon now available at BTP - Bernhard Langerbein. The carbon cranks have a 140-142mm q-factor and a weight about 282g. Avaliable as ISIS or ISO Square Taper Version with 170, 172.5 and 175mm lenght for Roadbikes with 130 and 110mm bolt circle and four hole MTB XTR Version (300g). Prize: 485 Euro.

Park Tool - Calvin´s Corner

As manufacturers release new groups and components, there are often new features that require new service procedures. This is part of a Park Tool series of articles discussing the newer component groups available from various manufacturers.

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Fulcrum Racing Torq RS / Racing Torq R

FULCRUM enters the World of Componentry. Fulcrum presents two high-range Cranksets in carbon fibre: Racing Torq RS and Racing Torq R.

Taipei, 23 March 2007 – After last week’s announcement that it was entering the off-road world with a range of dedicated wheels, Fulcrum now further increases its presence in the road sector by joining the field of componentry. Today, two crankset models are being presented at the inauguration of the International Cycle Show in Taipei: Racing Torq RS and Racing Torq R. These are two high-range cranksets in carbon fibre compatible with the main drivetrains available on the market.

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Lightweight, expensive, damaged…

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Principia Webshop

Principia Bikes needs to get cleaned out. They found some nice frames with a few scratches or minor faults in the anodizing or paintjob, and decided to offer these with a huge discount. They also threw in a couple of frames, like the awesome Principia RSL (499 Euros including Frameset with Fork, Headset and Seatpostclamp) without any faults. Surface treatment warranty is one year (exception: Frames with manufacturing flaws). Three years against rupture of the frame.

Visit Principiabikes.com Shop.

Tiso Front Derailleur Extreme

An all-carbon Front Derailleur with an impressive weight of only 32g! This FD is Tiso-based and made of Carbon-plates which are agglutinated and finally grind down.

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Rügamer Zen Überlight - 600 Gram!

Rügamer is still a new brand name, but company head Brent Ruegamer is no newcomer himself, having served with renowned carbon fibre framebuilder Craig Calfee. Brent shows his new Zen Ãœberlight road frame on the North American Hand Made Bicycle Show, claimed to weigh just 600g!
The Zen Ãœberlight is a nearly 100% carbon creation, using aluminum for only the down tube shifter bosses and the replaceable rear derailleur hanger. Integrated headset bearings drop directly into the head tube, and sealed cartridge bearings specifically sized for a THM-Carbone Clavicula crankset are pressed directly into the bottom bracket shell.

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Hope Mono Mini Pro

Mini lever design and existing caliper for 2007 - the brake has shed even more weight from it’s previously slimline design through the use of a carbon lever, 12 piece Ti bolt kit and a lightweight version of the floating rotor.

Features of Hope Mini Pro:

*Carbon lever with custom graphics
*Lightweight (1.8mm) floating rotor
*Ti bolts to master cylinder clamp, caliper & bracket mounts and rotor bolts
*Custom etching for master cylinder cap
*Custom colour (gunsmoke) to caliper, master cylinder and connector
*295g overall weight - including ALL parts needed to use!
*£175 (~257 Euro) per brake

Photo © Hopegb.com

Crumpton - 7.2lb!

7.2 pounds = 3.26586506 kilograms!
Crumpton Cycles fixed gear hill climb bike.

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Close co-operation with Bike-Community.net

We´re proud to announce a close co-operation between Light-Bikes and Bike-Community.net. On BC.net you´ll find a Mountain Bike Forum, a Map of all Members, a Photo Gallery, a Diary for your daily Training, Mountain Bike Trail Directory and the Winter-Cup. Every winter you have the opportunity to compare your training sessions with the training sessions of lots of other bikers. This will motivate you to do more sports - perhaps you even reach a good position in the final results.

Further details can be found on Bike-Community.net.

The italian job

Lee Jeffries, nicknamed LJ - a well-known member of WeightWeenies and Fairwheelbikes - recently added another masterpiece to his exquisite bike collection. Most of his bikes are italian brands, (well, actually all of them!) equipped with some of the finest parts available. His very first bike was a black Pinarello Dogma. Now that’s what I call a sweet bike to start with:

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Magura Marta Red finally available

Owners of a 2007 Specialized bike, well not all of them, but the really high-end ones, had so far an enviable privilege: They were the only guys out there having red Magura Marta SL’s on board. What remains a privilege for Specialized as a MAGURA OE customer will be available for aftermarket end users from March 07 onwards.

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5rot Hydraulic Shifting

5rot, a start-up company around Christoph Muthers from Germany has done a well job of constructing a fully functional and well developed shifting system for mountain bikes. The shifting is nearly frictionless, light, and performs with perfect accuracy. This hydraulic shifting system costs about 1500 Euro (approx. $2000).

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Bike of the year contest

80 Hours to go! (March 24th, 2007 - 12pm), than this period has expired.

As already published in several online communities we would like to officially announce our first contest. We search for the nicest community bike in four different categories:

• Racebike - max. 7kg
• MTB Hardtail - max. 9kg
• MTB Full Suspension - max. 10kg
• MTB Singlespeed - max 8.5kg

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