The Rawland Cycles booth was buzzing with activity everytime I passed by it during the show.  I was able to click a couple shots of their new bikes.

Another tire that we have heard about, the IRD Fire650b. This tire is based off of the Panaracer Fire XC.  A great all around tire that folks in the South East LOVE.  I wasn’t given a clear date for production to be pulling through so again photos is what you are getting for these.

Wanted to quickly post up photos of the Schwalbe Racing Ralph.  From the rep in the booth it sounds like production is taking longer than expected and we should see a batch late fall.  Keeping your fingers crossed a larger batch of tires will be on a container full of ‘09 product that is scheduled […]

My first appointment on day one of the indoor show was with one of my favorite marketing guys in the industry, Dain Zaffke, from WTB.  The purpose was for TheBikeLab and also to get the scope on the new 650b tires and rims that I mentioned in the previous OS Bikes post.
Tires : As I […]

Mark Slate from WTB and was on hand at the Outdoor demo yesterday and confirmed many things.  Tires and rims will be a seperate post but the thing I want to touch on is the new OS Bikes Blackbuck 650b frames!
The purpose behind designing a 650b frame is when Mark was trying to design a […]

Today was one of the Outdoor Demo days at Interbike 2008.  Taking 30 minutes out of my day to ride the Haro Beasley was a must.  I missed my chance at Sea Otter this past spring due to scheduling and not a full supply of demo bikes.  For Interbike Haro was ready with many 1×9 […]