TODAY’S CYCLIST SHOW
Forme’s kids bikes supplied with road and off road tyres
Meanwhile, the disorder frame at £289.99
JAGWIRE Jagwire has been heavily investing in making the dealer’s life as simple as possible in the past few years, creating workshop tools to service its products, colourways to match the pickiest customers requests and 30 metre shop rolls, also in seven of its most popular colours. Hydraulic hoses for mountain bikes now come in 12 colours, while road cables continue to cater to the brand-loyal with a Bianchi Celest cyan shade now in the range, alongside SID Blue cables for Rock Shox fans and ‘titanium’ and ‘carbon’ coloured cables for those with a taste for the exotic.
SOCIAL
Social continues to be well received by dealers and this year expands with several new aftermarket components, including a prototype sprocket in regular and spline drive seen at the Derby show. Perhaps the most popular of the new bits
are the £12.99 Budgie pedals, keeping things realistic for pocket money budgets. It was explained to BikeBiz that Social aims to keep things ‘realistic’ price-wise for the BMX rider. The three stems, in front, top and rise variations all come in at £44.99 and are sold in a variety of colours to match the market’s current trends. Three seats – a slim, medium and ‘extra
padding’ version with a tough Kevlar rear join the catalogue.
HARO Fancy a spin?
If you missed out on the £1,000-a-pop limited run of Freestyler frames, of which just 50 came to the UK, they’re all gone now. Never fear though, because old-school dads
can get their kids involved in the brand now with the Z10,16 and 18 bikes. The Z10 is a pedal free scoot bike for toddlers, while the Z16 and Z18 are ideal first bikes for kids, each with a built in ‘handle’ in the back of the saddle to assist parents in stablising the child during their first experience of cycling.
CLIQ Haro-developed race label Cliq has a few new exciting products for the race specialists out there, including the £800 Blackout complete bike, a competition ready build kitted out with the best of Cliq’s own parts.
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Haro’s Z series kids bikes
Social’s prototype sprocket
provides strong value against market competitors with every tube tapered for strength in the right places and the rear end heat treated to take some of the weight out. If you looked closely, you’d have also seen integrated chain tensioners, ideal for the street or park rider.
PREMIUM PRODUCTS The big news from Premium Products is the arrival of signature products from BMX superstar Chad Kerley and Connor Lodes. Kerley’s signature frame and tyres are now in stock, with the frame costing £299 and coming in 20.5, 20.8 and 21-inch top tube sizes. Moore Large currently only holds the black version of the frame, but will bring in limited amounts of the gold and silver colourways later this year. The Lodes bars will retail at £69.99 and come in 8.5 and 8.75 rises.
The Addict forks were also shown with a 20mm enclosed dropout. We were told the label currently has a 20mm axle hub of its own in the works.
FORME Plenty of eye-catchers from Forme, but unanimously the most popular were the newly introduced Formeula road bikes for kids. Interestingly, Moore Large has opted to
supply each of the three bikes with two sets of tyres in the box, enabling the customer to choose whether they’ll be using the bike more on or off road in store.
Specced with Moore Large’s own One23 components were possible, the build quality looks spot on, especially with strong colourmatching throughout. BikeBiz was told that this line will expand in future and prototype models were seen to be already in development. At present the line spans £99 for the 24-inch model, £449 for the 26-inch wheel and £499 for the 700c build. Stock lands during April. Elsewhere, the show saw the debut of
Forme’s first 29ers – the Winscar range – in stock now and hitting price points from £1,699 for a smooth weld frame to £3,499.99 for an internally routed carbon frame.
LAKE
Plenty of new gear from shoe brand Lake, who have embraced the BOA lacing system in an even bigger way in 2013, bringing the technology to a £120 MX175 shoe with a full leather upper for the first time. Also spotted was a new mountain biking
‘boot’, the MX145, hosting two BOA dials for a tailored fit from top to bottom. Expect this to land in September and cost around £170. 01332 274252
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