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06 Rocky Mountain 06
Now with Greenover distribution in the UK, Rocky Mountain dealers will soon have access to the Instinct 999 MSL 29ER. With a complete bike weight of just 24.8 lbs, the 1x11 Sram geared bike sports RaceFace’s new Next SL crank and a handful of other top-spec aftermarket parts. What’s particularly exciting about this build is the ability to fine tune the ride geometry and suspension feel to suit different styles and terrain. This is thanks to the angular bearing concept, which aside from providing an uncompromising stiffness over cartridge bearing systems, saves around 20 grams per pivot. The Instinct frame is a looker too, with internal cable routing provided even for the Reverb post and rear shock.
Kona 07
With Kona now shipped to the UK via a warehouse in Holland we were keen to see what’s on offer to the dealer interested in the distributor-less business model. Ben Gaby, the head of the UK operation, told
BikeBiz: “We’re quite excited about this year’s product as some of these bikes have been four years in the development and launched here at Eurobike.”
Going via the independent store only, Kona
told BikeBiz of an imminent store POS and custom store-in-a-store program that will be available to larger accounts. Trials have begun in Europe and select UK stores, so if you’re looking to expand your Kona offering contact the label on
Dan@konaworld.com. Shipping of bikes from the Netherlands takes two to three days and strong early settlement terms are available, alongside ‘improved margins’.
BIKEBIZ.COM Bell 09
Bell is particularly chuffed with its Super helmet and for good reason. It packs in a lot of in demand features for the money, such as mounts for a GoPro included, a ‘Goggle Guide’ that channels and holds the straps and four overbrow vents that ensure your customer’s forehead remains cool. 25 vents feature
08 On to the bikes and the new carbon
VP’s super slim titanium flat pedal
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Operator will join the wish lists of many downhill enthusiasts this year. This is the first time Kona has placed its trust in carbon for a gravity application and the uni-directional weave should ensure that it’s a compliant ride, while the shock is mounted near the bottom bracket to maintain a low centre of gravity. The hollowed dropouts are said to have taken some time to develop. Oversized pivot bearings feature to ensure longer life. The result of all of these subtle developments is a bike with a more progressive leverage rate curve compared to the original Operator. If your customer is more into sportives,
check out the Zone range, which offer a large clearance frame for tyres up to 28c with a full mudguard, for which hidden eyelets feature near the frame’s dropouts.
VP Components 08
Passing through the halls, it was hard to not be drawn to VP’s new Blade pedal. This has to be the lightest platform pedal around at 223 grams and made from CNC machined titanium. The picture does the talking on this one – minimal surface area, but with pins in the right places to maintain grip. Independent distribute VP in the UK should you fancy an eye-catching pedal for your store’s cabinets.
elsewhere on the in-mold constructed lid. At 390 grams, it’s a light lid too, available for head sizes up to 63cm. A supplied removable visor has a 35-degree range, so it’ll slip aside when you want a breather from the goggles.
Giant 10
We could have headed straight for the flagship Giant’s that will receive the lion’s share of the media attention, but on noticing a much expanded women’s catalogue, these column inches will belong to bikes such as the Envie, as well as the Thrive Composite, Obsess and Lust mountain bike lines. The highlight was a limited edition version
of Marianne Vos’s Envie, for which only 100 will be shipped worldwide. Claiming to be the world’s first women’s specific aero bike, the Envie sports a tidy collaboration between TRP and Giant, which sees the brakes tucked into the frame and fork’s construction as a single flush unit. Giant also showed what it believed to be the world’s first integrated seatpost road bike for women, as well as the new Brava SLR2 – a disc clad women’s specific cyclocross bike, available with spec ranging from Shimano 105 through to SRAM Red. On the components front, Giant’s Contact
Switch remote post has been revamped so that cable routing works either internally or externally.
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