Maybe you caught this over on the S&M page…but if you haven’t, take a look at this.
The S&M Speedwagon cruiser frame is now available in Gloss Clear.
Clearly, this is a hot-looking frame (sorry, couldn’t resist).
S&M provides a clear choice
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Tags: Gloss Clear, S&M bikes, S&M Speedwagon frame
Categories : New products, New School, Racing
Subrosa/Slayer collaboration cruiser
30 04 2016We’ve seen quite a few collaboration bikes over the years but this type of collaboration just feels so right….Subrosa and Slayer!
Subrosa has teamed up with Slayer to produce a line of bikes that includes a 26″ cruiser.
These bikes have been designed with a look to represent the band –and its fans — as well as set up to hold up to some old-fashioned radness (to a degree, though…the frame on the cruiser is tri-moly).
In terms of geometry/frame specs, the Slayer 26 features:
- Head Angle: 72 degrees
- Seat Angle: 73 degrees
- Top tube: 22″
- Chain stay: 16.5″
- Stand over: 14.75″
- Bottom bracket height: not disclosed at press time
I’m digging on the graphics and colorway though.
Watch for these to drop some time in October.
For more on the Subrosa/Slayer collaboration, check out their issu lookbook.
(All pics: Subrosa)
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Tags: Reign in blood, Slayer, Subrosa, Subrosa Slayer cruiser, Subrosa X Slayer collaboration
Categories : Freestyle, New products, New School
Sutty’s custom Invictus, all built up
26 04 2016Roy “Sutty” Sutton gave us a sneak peek a few weeks back of his custom Invictus Bikes cruiser frame.
It was an eye-catcher with a slack* head angle, long top tube, short rear stays and...to top things off….it was fitted for a disc brake.
I couldn’t wait to see it all built up.
Well, it took a while but we finally have a pic of his bike put together.
It looks pretty trick.
Now, we just need to convince him to send some riding shots!
*I think we might be on the cusp of a bona fide trend in cruisers with slacker head angles for the dirt-jumping crowd (just look at the Commonground frame for another example) .
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Tags: Commonground Bikes, Invictus Bikes, Invictus custom cruiser, Roy Sutton, Sutty
Categories : New products, New School, Trails, Trails/Jumping
Lairdframe celebrates its 200th frame
21 04 2016Mike Laird made a name for myself as a BMX Pro but these days he spends most of his time making high-end custom frames that bear his name.
And those frames might just end up having a bigger impact on the riding community than his pro career ever did.
Still riding at a high level but retired from the contest scene, Mike has turned his attention to building the best custom frames he can for all types of riders.
We’ve featured a couple of Lairdframes in the past and have always been blown away.
Now with the milestone of the 200th frame reached (with a special one-off for himself)…it’s a good time to check out this video Mike put together a few months ago.
It walks through the journey Mike took from getting into riding, turning Pro and transitioning into a custom frame builder.
Check it out.
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Tags: Custom cruiser, Lairdframe, Mike Laird
Categories : Freestyle, New products, New School
Yess introduces belt drive cruiser
19 04 2016The Yess BMX belt drive race bike, powered by the Gates Carbon Drive system, got a lot of hype last year.
It was definitely a big departure from conventional BMX drive trains.
When I finally got a chance to give it a once-over at Interbike, I was impressed. At the same time, I thought to myself, “I doubt they’ll ever get around to making a cruiser version.”
Well, as it turns out….Yess did get around to making a cruiser version.
BMXNews.com dropped the news over the weekend.
It will be offered as a complete, kitted out with BOX components, Arisun Tires and a specially-fitted-for-Carbon Drive Onyx rear hub. (Check the full parts breakdown over at BMXNews.com)
Drivetrain Deets
- 50-tooth Gates Carbon Drive System Ring (Aluminum)
- Rear Cog: 22-tooth Gates Carbon Drive System Pulley (Aluminum)
- Belt: 108-tooth Gates Carbon Drive
- Gear ratio 1 : 2.27 (which is similar to 41/18)
List price is $2900 ($US, I believe) with a $200 discount incentive if you purchase before May.
Great to see the latest in BMX tech (like this and the 24″ carbon Speedco frame) making its way to the cruiser class.
(All pics: BMXNews.com)
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Tags: Gates Carbon Drive system, interbike, Yess BMX, Yess BMX Belt Drive Cruiser
Categories : New products, New School, Racing
McGoo reaches for some Commonground
18 04 2016Seemingly right on the heels of our last post on Commonground Bikes (Finding that Commonground), an industry icon has thrown his support behind the Commonground concept.
Who is this industry icon you ask?
(If the headline didn’t give it away…)
It’s none other than Harold “McGoo” McGruther.
In a pair of Instagram posts today (here and here), McGruther talks a bit about his personal history riding/racing cruisers and what impact a trails-oriented 24 like the Commonground could have on the big-wheeled BMX scene.
Here’s a couple of tidbits from his posts:
…Commonground [‘s] 24″ seeks to bridge the gap between a BMX bike’s diminutive scale and an MTB’s complexity and cost to give grown-ass men a bike they can ride like they may have ridden in their teens and 20s, before wives, kids and desk jobs set in
If Pro BMX racing hadn’t become a clipped-in gym rat’s game at the turn of last century, I’d like to believe guys like Chris Moeller, @brianfoster, @ecmtb1 and Travis @commongroundbikes would have pushed race machinery in a bigger, faster, more bulletproof direction.
I secretly pine for what might have been had guys like Mike Day, Robbie Miranda and Brian [Foster]* gotten aboard the big bike train.
IMHO there is another good argument for grown men riding bigger bikes: fewer feckless members of the peanut gallery would look down on our sport’s greatest athletes as merely “old men on kid’s bikes.” I personally despise that opinion and comparison, but sometimes perception IS reality.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEVj_LSMQtk/?taken-by=haroldmcgruther&hl=en
This isn’t the first time that McGruther has commented on “progressive 24s.”
You might recall a post from some years back, An army of giants take over the trails, where McGruther (using a Mirraco 24 as a jumping off point) talked about the number of core companies jumping into the 24 market (this was back in ’09).
At the time, he summed the situation up quite aptly by saying,
All we know for sure is this: 24-inch BMX bikes are fun to ride, and that’s good enough for us.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Postscript:
This just in…Brian Foster has jumped aboard the “big bike train“…to a degree, at least…in a surprise announcement — via Instagram — BF dropped the bomb that he was experimenting with an 22″ S&M ATF…and FIT would be releasing a 22″ Brian Foster complete in the new year.
Yowza!
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Tags: 24" BMX, Brian Foster on a 22" BMX, Commonground Bikes, Dirtjumping, Harold McGruther, McGoo
Categories : New products, New School, Trails, Trails/Jumping
Finding that Commonground
14 04 2016Back in December, we had a look at Commonground Bikes‘ uncommon approach to the 24.
As you might recall, rather than taking the well-trodden path of many other companies…that is, scaling up a bigger version of 20″ geometry…Commonground took a different approach.
Commonground borrowed elements of 26″ dirtjumpers (slack headtubes, low bottom brackets) and scaled it down to a 24″ version (while still retaining many familiar “BMX-y” elements).
Have a look at that previous post if you want to see how the Commonground setup compares, side-by-side, to a typical BMX cruiser.
Of course, words and images are great but it’s always nice to see how a bike works “in the field”…or in this case, at the trails.
As luck would have it, Commonground dropped a video edit today that explains a bit more about the Commonground concept along with some good riding action.
Check it out.
Bonus section: the filmer seemed to really, really like the Commonground frame.
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Tags: 24inch BMX, BMX Cruiser, Commonground Bikes, Dirtjumpers
Categories : New products, New School, Trails, Trails/Jumping
Scoping out the SE STR-29
5 04 2016Well, the cat’s out of the bag.
Todd Lyons had been dropping hints leading up to the Spring Fling in Florida (that happened this past weekend).
He had something special that he wanted to showcase.
And he brought Stu Thomsen along for the occasion.
That “something” was the reintroduction of the STR (Stu’s signature frame back in the day).
But this wasn’t just a simple re-pop…this STR has evolved!
This STR is a 29-incher!
(Hence the name – STR-29.)
That’s Stu and the STR-29 on the right (Who’s that guy on the left? He looks pretty Buff)
The frame design is pretty trick.
The double down-tubes begin at the head tube, wrap underneath the bottom bracket, continue around the looptail (!) rear dropouts and then connect again on the top tube.
When I shared the first pic of the STR-29 on the CR Facebook page, a couple people questioned the 29″ size.
I kinda wondered about it too.
Then I remembered a comment I had seen in the past (from The Mayor of Hollywood, perhaps?) that the 29″ Big Ripper was an awesome wheelie machine.
No sooner had that thought crossed my mind…this picture popped up on my feed.
Stu and DBlocks getting their wheelie on.
It appears that my suspicions that the STR-29 being an extraordinary wheelie machine were confirmed.
I’m sure we’re going to be hearing more about the SE STR-29 in the weeks and months ahead.
(Pictures: Todd Lyons/SE)
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Tags: 29 inch BMX cruiser, Mike Buff, SE STR-29, Spring Fling BMX show, Stompin' Stu Thomsen, Stu Thomsen
Categories : New products, Old School
Sutty’s custom Invictus Bikes cruiser
29 03 2016UK rider, Roy “Sutty” Sutton spotted our recent post on Curtis Bikes’ unconventional cruiser and decided to drop us a line about another custom frame builder in the UK that will “build anything you want”…Invictus Bikes.
Invictus just finished his custom 24″ dirt/park/race cruiser (it’s just going to paint) and he sent along some early photos to share the stoke.
It features the following specs:
- 69 degree head tube
- 72 degree seat tube
- 23″ top tube
- 14″ rear stay
- 11.2″ bottom bracket height
- 135mm dropouts to run a disc brake
Sutty’s going to provide an update when it’s painted and ready to go. The frame comes in at a tidy 4 pounds (if that sort of thing matters to you).
Looking forward to seeing this rig all built up!
Sutty says his M.O. these days is “pump tracks/dirt/park and the occasional race”…so maybe some action shots too?
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Tags: Custom cruiser, Invictus Bikes, Sutty, UK custom frame builder
Categories : New products, New School, Racing, Skatepark, Trails, Trails/Jumping
Bike shops are down with the WTP Avenger
10 03 2016It goes without saying that you should support your local bike shop whenever you can.
This is even more true if you have a cool bike shop in your area that supports BMX.
And if that shop stocks cruisers…well, then you’ve got gold my friend.
These thoughts come to mind when I came across two shops promoting the 2016 We The People Avenger cruiser in their shops.
Harvester Bikes rolled out a freshly assembled Avenger for all to see on their Instagram feed a short while back.
To build on that hype, they posted a followup “unboxing” vid of the bike being assembled.
W-Base Garage, a shop in Japan, also got into the WTP Avenger action a while back.
The folks at W-Base, of course, busted out a bar endo.
They must of known I’m a sucker for bar endos.
It’s good to see shops stocking..and promoting!…cruisers.
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Tags: 2016 We The People Avenger, Bmx Cruisers, Harvester Bikes, Local bike shops, W-Base
Categories : Flatland, Freestyle, New products
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