Since Morewood’s birth 12 years ago, our craft of designing and manufacturing the highest quality mountain bike frames has certainly progressed. The machines have evolved. The graphics and corporate identity have changed. But one thing remains constant: our desire to build inspired mountain bikes.

Patrick Morewood and his team have worked tirelessly to bring to market what is perhaps the most anticipated frame in the company’s history. Licensing Dave Weagle’s famed design, this finely tuned trail bike has all the characteristics that riders have come to love and expect from us. Split Pivot fits the 150mm travel platform perfectly.

2011 Morewood Sukuma video from eurobike

What is Split Pivot?

Split Pivot is a patented suspension system for high performance bicycles, where traction, efficiency, manoeuvrabil- ity, and frame stiffness are important factors on the track and trail.

The heart of the new suspension design features a concentric dropout pivot. Together with Dave Weagle’s competi- tion proven engineering and testing

process, Morewood have engineered a frame to combine the best performance traits of single pivot and long-arm linkage suspensions.

Split Pivot is all about having fun on the trail, and each unique suspension layout is designed to offer a ride that will make you smile regardless of your riding style or ability.

How does  it  work?

The Split Pivot concentric dropout design separates acceleration forces from braking forces in the suspension. The system reduces excess suspension reaction to accelera- tion forces, and at the same time reduces excess reaction to braking forces. Braking neutrality can be tuned independently of acceleration characteristics, and suspension feel can be tuned by varying leverage ratio curves. With so many possible mechanical layouts, not every Split Pivot bike looks or performs the same. But therein lies the beauty, because it allows us to create the perfect tool for the job. And we have.

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HI Guys,

Here’s a cool video done by Nick from Wollongong.

Enjoy:

“Andrew came down from Bredbo in the holidays and stayed with Jack so I made a short video of them riding a local track together.

Jack is wearing the white and blue kit and Andrew is wearing the blue and orange kit. They definetely have a lot of talent on a bike so look out for them in the future, Jack is 13 years old and Andrew is like 6 or something”

Song: “All Stars” – Grafton Primary

Andrew is sponsored by Rouler Imports so check out their gear at: rouler.com.au

Andrew Crimmins and Jack McCosker from Nick Peterson on Vimeo.

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.

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.

Hey guys,

how are you all ? Alright, yeah wet just like us!
Anyway i’ve been a bit slack lately and have been meaning to upload these pictures a while ago.
But before we would like to congratulate our Rouler team riders for their outstanding performance so far.

Check out the piccies:

Our mate Will Davis put this short video together for a project that has yet to be finished!

Hope you enjoy it.

Untitled from Will Davis on Vimeo.

NIcho

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