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Chasseral Loop

Today I took off on my good old Niner to head up to the Chasseral for the first time of the year. Well, the first time on knobby tires, I should specify. The weather was amazing - sunny blue sky and a fresh breeze - absolutely perfect for such a bike tour. My tiny GPS logger didn’t make it to my mailbox Saturday. In fact, it could very well be that Swiss mailmen don’t have to carry packages on Saturdays. If I think about it, I don’t remember ever having gotten one on a Saturday. Never mind, I’ll leave this post with a collection of nine photos from today’s singlespeed ride. A detailed route description including GPS track will follow on another occasion. The Chasseral is after all one of my frequent destinations.

29er Suspension Fork for Cantilever Brakes With hardly anyone using cantis on their bikes and even fewer considering buying a new MTB with cantilevers, suspension forks with canti-studs are hard to find these days and they are pretty much non-existant for 29 inch wheels. If you live in Brazil though, this might change pretty soon as ProShock just published a few photos of a 29er prototype suspension fork. I don’t know much about the brand, but they sponsor many South American mountain bike teams and their forks seem to be fairly popular in that part of the world. Zoom

29er Suspension Fork for Cantilever Brakes

With hardly anyone using cantis on their bikes and even fewer considering buying a new MTB with cantilevers, suspension forks with canti-studs are hard to find these days and they are pretty much non-existant for 29 inch wheels. If you live in Brazil though, this might change pretty soon as ProShock just published a few photos of a 29er prototype suspension fork. I don’t know much about the brand, but they sponsor many South American mountain bike teams and their forks seem to be fairly popular in that part of the world.

2010 S-WORKS MT Helmet I’ve been MTBing without visor for the last couple of years and sort of miss one. In fact, I used to wear an MTB specific helmet on my road bike, which provided me with a competitive advantage riding through a hail storm once. Specialzed’s new MT helmet would fit the bill - light weight, visor, attractive design. Zoom

2010 S-WORKS MT Helmet

I’ve been MTBing without visor for the last couple of years and sort of miss one. In fact, I used to wear an MTB specific helmet on my road bike, which provided me with a competitive advantage riding through a hail storm once. Specialzed’s new MT helmet would fit the bill - light weight, visor, attractive design.

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