This week on The Refresh, Samsung officially ceases production of the Galaxy Note 7, the Sony Xperia X Compact gets reviewed, Microsoft Hololens comes to the UK and what's the best VR headset? We battle it out in our weekly Head-to-Head. ...
German power meter brand Power2Max is now spec'ing Praxis Works chainrings as an OE option on its power meter cranksets. For a $99 retail upcharge, customers can get any Power2Max meter with Praxis' cold-forged LevaTime rings installed. ...
Being a viable alternative to Shimano is not easy for the small Taiwanese company MicroShift. Not only is it in the prototyping stages of its own electronic drivetrain development, but it recently invested in a huge forging machine for cog ...
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While the Spanish crank and power brand has adopted more subtle graphics for its cranksets, changes go more than skin deep. "We've got new materials and a more serious mountain bike line," said Phillip Lucas, head of Rotor's U.S. office in ...
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SRAM this week released details of its second 1x11 mountain bike group, called XO1. The group slots in a few hundred dollars cheaper than its first 11-speed, single-chainring group, XX1, and will be available in September. The groups are ...
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Lifeboat Events’ fifth annual Bike PressCamp kicked off Tuesday with 30 members of the cycling and mainstream media converging on Deer Valley to meet with more than 25 brands in the resort’s condos for some one-on-one face time ...
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The Bethel, Connecticut-based bike maker is waiting until after its global sales meeting next month here at Deer Valley to reveal much of its 2014 lineup. Still, Cannondale has some goodies to show PressCamp editors. The Synapse ...
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Retailer Tony Farrar is riding in the hills of northern New Mexico with his friends, who are also his customers, when their bikes start making noise and their gears mis-shift. “They always blame me,” said Farrar, owner of Bike ...
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Retailer Tony Farrar is riding in the hills of northern New Mexico with his friends, who are also his customers, when their bikes start making noise and their gears mis-shift. "They always blame me," said Farrar, owner of Bike 'N Sport in ...
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The drivetrain begins with pedals which rotate the cranks, which are held in axis by the bottom bracket. Most bicycles use a chain to transmit power to the rear wheel. A very small number of bicycles use a shaft drive to transmit power, or ...
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Quarq is releasing two new power-measuring crank designs with refined designs, lighter weight and more crank lengths than its previous offerings. The SRAM-owned company's new cranks are called the ELSA 10 and RIKEN 10. The top-end ...
Tags: power-measuring crank, cranks, ELSA 10