Timber Mountain Bike Bells offer riders silent mode, too
to create trail awareness when you need it and silence when you don’t. It has a simple lever that controls the internal clapper, so unlike a traditional bear bell, it can be silenced completely when the rider doesn’t need to be heard. When turned on, the motion of the bike activates the sound of the bell. “We thought that there had
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to be a better way for mountain bikers to communicate with other trail users,” said Chris Lacy, who founded Timber with his wife, Liz, last year. “Sometimes the existing means of signaling — from say- ing, ‘Passing on the left!’ to the tinny sound of a traditional dinger bell — don’t create the best vibe on the trail. And we wanted to make something that sounded better that could be turned off for a better riding experience.” Lacy worked for several
months on the design of the Timber bell with a freelance
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The Timber bell can be turned on and off with the flip of a switch. It retails for $20.
engineer. About 35 3D-printed prototypes were made in order to test the bell’s different parts in various ways. The Timber is made of brass for its durability and crisp, clear sound. It mounts under the handlebar with quick- release hardware so riders can easily move it from bike to bike. The bell is available at more
than 50 bike shops nationwide and on Timber’s website. It is also sold on IMBA’s website. Because Lacy wanted to make the bell accessible to everyone, it retails for $20.
Lezyne broadens line over accessory brand’s first decade
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ezyne (Booth 526) is celebrat- ing its 10-year anniversary, and
the array of products it is showing at Sea Otter reflects the compa- ny’s diversification over the years. First known for its sleek hand pumps, Lezyne has added tools, LED lights and, last year, GPS units to its offering. “Something like
GPS wasn’t even a thought when we start- ed with hand pumps 10 years ago,” said Dillon Clapp, communications manager at Lezyne. “But it’s what we feel will take us to the next level and allow us to cross into other sports and the opportunity to grow outside of cycling.”
is more programming that goes on with LED than people realize,” he said. “A light might seem simple, but it’s not. So we knew we could learn and grow from that, applying it to other products.” Lezyne is display- ing its GPS units at Sea Otter along with a few new tools and two pumps it is showing to consumers for the first time.
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Lezyne’s newest floor pump fea- tures a chargeable chamber for seat- ing tubeless tires.
Drive is a tubeless-com- patible floor pump that features a large alumi- num chamber that can be manually pressur- ized then released with
Clapp said the addition of LED
lights five years ago helped pave the way to engineering GPS units, which Lezyne does in-house at its facilities in San Luis Obispo, Califor- nia, and Taichung, Taiwan. “There
a foot lever to seat tubeless tire systems. It will be available at retail at the end of May for $129.99. The fat-bike-friendly Micro
Floor Drive XL is a portable floor pump equipped with a large barrel to efficiently fill fat and plus-sized tires. It will land at retail later this month and sell for $59.99.
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