Straitline Components Platform Pedal Cutaway - Simple eh? Greg just posted up some parts diagrams of the pedals and some videos on how to pull apart, service and put back togethor your Straitline Pedals. They are a super simple design and extremely easy for you to service and clean at home. We also stock a full range of spare parts so you can rebuild your pedals and keep them running for years. All the spares are cheap too:

• Axle: $35 RRP
• Soft Rebuild Kit: $27.50 RRP (new bushings, teflon washers, frisbees, poodle clips for 1 set [2] pedals).

The bushings are rated for 1000+ hours of use, but obviously if you get mud, fine dirt etc. in there it is going to wear them out quicker. So given them a clean and service every now and then to keep them in top shape. The bushings take an absolute beating though and are a much better option than bearings for this application. Other big name companies are already following Straitline’s lead with their use. Read more! (more…)

Mountain Cycle is working on a “slopestyle” bike (think crankworx, slopestyle, monster park events). It looks like it is going to be one fun ride, 100mm of travel in the rear (4 inches) and designed for 4-6″ single crown forks this puppy is entirely designed for massive jumps that you may feel the need to tail-whip or bar spin over.

We will be keeping our eyes open for news on this bike, which is yet to be named.

Link: Mountain Cycle

French company Ignit has just released their new Ignit frame, looking very tidy indeed. It is designed as a freeride hardtail. with a primary use for 4X / Dual Slalom. It definitely looks great for the intended purpose, a very stiff looking frame indeed and well gusseted.

Here is what Patrick @ Ignit had to say:

Evolution 2006 of the IGNIT Nac-Nac for riders that seek a frame hardtail to character Freeride/4X. This evolution features a hydroformed downtube, new yoke, system ISCG, and dropouts adjustable allowing to obtain chainstay lenght between 415 to 430mm but as removable to replace dropouts hangers to vertical insertion wheel by horizontal dropouts hangers for singlespeed.

2 sizes M and L are available with headtube angle of 68° for 130mm fork travel, a special version 4X for 100mm travel fork will available soon.

The Nac-Nac possesses an excellent geometry to amuse and attack in 4x as in the singletracks.

The whole new 2006 SRAM / Rockshox / Truvativ / Avid product range is online at http://www.sram.com/

It has all the goodies that were featured in our 2006 SRAM Product launch but now you can get all the exact specs and sexy product shots.

On Friday the 29th of August 2006, SRAM along with Monza Imports hosted the 2006 launch for SRAM, Avid Brakes, RockShox and the newly acquired Truvativ Products.

We had seen everything before as i am sure you all have seen alot of this stuff, but it was still good to see some other stuff especially in the fork range that we had not seen and to touch and play with all the stuff to see how it all works.

Below the most anticipated product of 2006, but more to follow…………………..read on!

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Over the past couple of weeks alot of people including myself have been speculating what they think and what they have heard will be on the 2006 Giant STPs.

Here is a low-res rough spec sheet and shots of the Australian 2006 STPs including RRPs! Check it out below:

You see a 20mm front axle on the STP 1, minor downgrade on brakes (they are still hydro, don’t knock ‘em till you try ‘em)improved hubs and fork. Pretty good deal.

The STP Zero is by far a winner though, Sram X7, Acid Juicy 5s, RockShox Pike SL’s with U-Turn, SDG I-Beam post with an I-Sky saddle. Colour looks pretty alright as well. I have already decided to buy one. They arrive in the country in 3-4 weeks so i will post about it not too long after that. Stay tuned.

Now some of you may have seen this pedal around, especially tucked within the DirtWorks Australia catalogue. I too have known about it for some time now, but only last week has the bearing design came to my attention.

Each pedal is equipped with 4 bearings!!! The axle support system comes with 12mm needle bearings, 2 cartridge bearings and a 20mm DU bearing for increased axle stability! This is a godsend considering most high end pedals only come with one cartridge bearing and a lame DU bushing to pick up the slack.

If and when you mash the pins on this puppies, you can easily replace them using a 6mm wrench (like you use on you brake caliper). The 2 pins in the centre of the pedal also act as grease ports, so that you can pump them full of grease for a stiff pedal that won’t rotate during your mad one hand, on leg, 2 toe, 4 finger superman x-ups!

All this lavish pedal making does come at a RRP of between $250-300, but we think it is worth it for the quality you get, plus you get a lifetime warranty. If you manage to bend the axle, no questions asked, instant replacement! Rest assured i will be getting my hands on some of these pedals to test ASAP, most likely will be in a few months when i build up the new jump bike………………the gimp…………yes the review wen’t well, stay tuned it is coming very soon!

The CroMoly version comes with cast in pins built specifically for grinding, how ever i would prefer to grind the stainless steel pins them replace them!

Hey Faithful Readers!

Just to let you know things are still happening behind the scenes here at Pedalphilia.

The Gimp review is coming along, still has to have a proper skate session and a full day of riding but it is scoring well so far. It is a little on the heavy side, but you will get that from steel! The best factor being the dampening effect this material has on the high impact demands of jumping and urban assault.

You will be pleased to know we are working on a technical article comparing aluminium with steel, and hopefully titanium if we can get enough info. Just to give you all the low down on the different materials, their strengths, weaknesses, strength to weight ratios etc. and basically describe to you exactly how they differ from each other and why.

We will be hitting up the Wednesday night skate park session next Wednesday, with lots of photos and possibly some video footage. Following this up with an article on the weekly meeting of mtb riders at Riverside Skate Park in Melbourne.

Stay tuned!