1000 pics from Eurobike 2008
September 6, 2008 by Michael Maage
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More than 1000 Pictures you can find now in our Eurobike 2008-Album. Our two days at the world largest bike show was brimming with new products from many top bicycle, component & accessories brands. We´ll bring you Eurobike live to you directly from Friedrichshafen in Germany. Check it out here!
AX-Lightness Orion SL
November 24, 2007 by Michael Maage
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The brandnew AX-Lightness Orion SL Brake. The first pics now on Light-Bikes.
AX-Lightness Orion SL with Carbon-springs, BTP Brakepads and Aluminium-Bolts for Powercordz.
Orion SL without Brakepads:
The “normal” AX Orion:
AX-Lightness Uranos handlebar
November 12, 2007 by Michael Maage
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Still kind of fresh out of the press: the rumor has actually already been circulating for a while, however it is just now that we are finally able to disclose some info on AX-Lightness’ latest baby: their URANOS road handlebar.
The bar is going to come in widths of 400, 420, 440mm - eventually with a 460mm version to follow as well. As announced in AX’s SL series thread the bar will be available in two different versions: stock version and SL version which utilizes a different type of carbon and is optimized to the specific rider weight. The stock version is going to weight 125-130g, the SL version can go as low as 110g! At first glance the shape seems to resemble the one of Schmolke’s bars, however AX prides themselves in having been concentrating on having an anatomically as ideal position as possible. The top section of the bar has a drop of 5mm and comes with a slight inwards bend. Towards the ends of the drops the bar slightly turns to the outside.
Price (for the stock version) will be around 550-600Eur and thus in direct competition to Schmolke’s TLO bar, with AX’ SL series probably even topping these. The first produced SL bar they built came in at 111g for a 400mm width, which currently is the only width they build - other still to follow.
The bars are not available yet, but it is hoped for them to still hit the market before X-Mas. Prices as said 550-600Eur for the stock version and the SL one being “more expensive”.
Thanks to Nils for the Pics, taken at EICMA in Milano.
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Braking at its best
June 14, 2007 by Michael Maage
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After 3 hours of climbing you did it, finally – you reached the top of the mountain and now you’re looking forward to the descent. High speed, tight corners, adrenalin! But…. slowly but surely the grin on your face is fading away. Bad breaking performance, no pressure point, your hands hurt – fading! Almost every biker has already made this kind of experience. It can definitely turn your good mood into a bad one, but most of all, it can turn out to be seriously dangerous as well.
Storck Fascenario - extreme edition
April 10, 2007 by Michael Maage
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Storck Fascenario with only 4540g / 9.988 pounds!
AX Lightness Zeus
February 26, 2007 by Michael Maage
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Within the scope of our manufacturer portrait of AX-Lightness, managing director Axel Schnura presented us exclusively the new fabricated stem called Zeus, which was introduced as a concept study at last year´s eurobike in Friedrichshafen. The 67 gram light pre-production model ( 110mm length; 26.0mm diameter ) with an angle of 7 degrees will be available to the end-consumer in april 2007.
Storck Fascenario - poshbikes edition
February 19, 2007 by Michael Maage
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The new poshbikes signature bike, and perhaps one of the coolest roadbikes on earth:
Carbon-Ti carbon road-brake
February 7, 2007 by Michael Maage
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Carbon-Ti’s carbon road-brake is finally approaching its production release after intensive testing procedures.
Unlinke previous claims the brake is going to weight 95g (instead of the previously claimed 99g) and will thus be a direct competitor to AX’s Orion brakes. At ~695 Euro retail / 850-900$ retail they are going to be less expensive than even the smaller AX model, the Perseus, though. Most important with brakes though the actual performance: initial testing has been showing some serious stopping power on a “definitely higher level than other lightweight brakes”.
The carbon is being made by Becker-Carbon, a German motorsports carbon specialist, the rest of the hardware and the assembly is taking place in-house at Carbon-Ti:
a cycling brake needs to be made by a cycling company
Gerhard tells me the first sets of brakes will be released in ~20days from now.
From fairwheelbikes.com - Nils/p0kr
