Quick Facebook competition!
Mar/100
You want to win a set of the brand new twenty6 elixir levers for your bike?
Jump on our facebook fan page and guess the weight of the complete zula bike we raced at the Mont 24hour.
New Twenty6 Elixir replacement levers available now!
Mar/100
Bonjour,
Twenty6 has just recently unveiled their new Avid elixir brake lever replacement with their usual 13 different colour range.
Available colors:
black, blue, red, gold, green, yellow, pink, purple, white, urban camo, flo orange, flo green, and polished
Be sure to check out Tyler’s other products on his website http://www.twenty6products.com
Photos: courtesy of www.sicklines.com .
you can also read their review on the levers:
“Bredbo brothers impress at Thredbo”
Mar/100
Not a bad little article.
Bredbo brothers, Andrew and Thomas Crimmins, blew the competition out of the water at the first round of the NSW/ACT state mountain bike racing series at Thredbo on the weekend.
Both riders gained a 1st place in their race, crossing the finish line well ahead of the other competitors.
Thomas entered the Under 19’s division, although he should be racing in the under 17’s. He placed 1st in a field of 45 riders 5 seconds clear of 2nd place.
Andrew raced in Under 15’s and placed 1st out of 19 riders, 21 seconds clear of 2nd place.
The weekend’s win follows the brother’s solid performances at various mountain bike competitions around the nation in the past month.
At the Australian National Mountain bike championships, held in Adelaide on Janurary 16 and 17, both boys achieved a podium finish. Thomas placed 2nd in a field of 43 riders and Andrew managed a 3rd place despite crashing within sight of the finish line.
The following weekend, both boys travelled to Shepparton, Victoria, to compete in round 2 of the Mountain bike National Series.
The boys’ mum, Kerry Crimmins, said as the track in Shepparton is relatively new the boys did not know what to expect.
“The track was actually a lot harder than first thought with a very steep rock shute and some big rock drops. Although most of the track wasn’t very steep, it was quite slippery with a lot of off camber sections, which made it hard to maintain speed and stay on the track,” she said.
Despite the dangerous conditions the brothers pulled off stunning performances with Thomas placing 2nd in Under 17’s and Andrew placed 1st in Under 15’s.
Source: Cooma Monaro express.
Crimmins domination !
Mar/100
The 2010 Nsw state series kicked off nicely with the first round held at Thredbo national park on the last week end of February. Despite a seriously damaged national track South East MTB co. and Kt did an amazing job at restoring what was a skeleton of a track due to the relentless downpour over the three days of racing two weeks prior.
The week end paned out without any glitches (Threats of thunderstorm were looming ) with two glorious sunny days of practise on friday and Saturday. Sunday however was overcast with some serious chances of rain and possible thunderstorm : we all kept our fingers and our spokes crossed for a dry race!
Come qualifying, a couple of rain drops threatened the race but the whole field managed to get down dry with the exception of the last 10 Elite riders who seriously coped a downpour and a half ! We just scraped it and managed to have a near dry week end with some awesome riding, thrills and spills!
And when we say spills we mean nasty ones, eject button type of crashes. See for yourself the state of my saddle. I had to do 3/4 of the run with rails for a seat and a big hole in my thigh from the stabbing i endured. Not pretty!
On the flip side, who cares about my result. What counts is that our sponsored riders all did extremely well:
Thomas Crimmins managed to pull the second fastest time of the day with a win in under 19’s in a 6min22s. I keep reminding myself that this kid is only 14 for another 4 months and is riding as fast as some of the top ten Elite nationally.
Always in the shadow of his brother but a glowing star nonetheless Andrew Crimmins at the age of 12 took out the field in under 15’s with 6min47s. Andrew is displaying amazing riding skills whilst riding and confidence that would scare a lion away .
A new Comer onboard the Rouler imports team is Kent Hamilton with his brand spanking new white makulu managed to qualify despite a wash out in front of me (as i was gathering my thoughts after my crash) that put him into last qualified. IN his final race run Kent took an honourable 8th place in Elite with a time of 6min30s.
And finally least but not last, one of our co-factory bos riders Brendan Moon blew the field with an amazing 5th place in Elite with a time of 6min27s.
We can call that a very successful week end for Rouler Imports riders with their top notch equipment performing at a high level of performance.
We will create a 2010 state series album in our gallery of our riders. SO keep checking.
Bring on the last national round and the rest of the state series.
Results can be found here.
nicho
Morewood Zula Available
Mar/100
It’s true! There was a back log of 90 Zula frames for the South African market alone. We managed to get a couple from the first batch and what a beauty it is to have a lightweight super simple curved cross country weapon for Morewood fans. Morewood is here to make a dent in the huge cross country market with both the Zula and Kwela (their hard tail denomination) with a no bullshit approach to what an XC bike should do and do it well. The Zula has faultless racing lines from which ever angle you look at it, the racing lines are amazingly complimented by the graphics and tech specs that most of us are looking for in a 4″ racing weapon.
Available as a frame set only for $2890 including an fsa semi integrated headset valued at $139 you will be hard pressed wanting something more suited to upgrade your old beater.
The Zula has very discreet cable routing, semi integrated headset for an optimal low front end, 73 mm bottom bracket, available in both black or white and in 4 sizes (s/m/l/xl).
The frame with shock and seatclamp weighs 2450 kg.
Enjoy the photos below. If you have any more questions please email us at rouler(@)rouler.com.au or give us a bell.
