Spin Power, which happens to be located right down the road from us in Greensboro, NC, had a couple of new products at the New Amsterdam Bike Show in NYC.

Perhaps the coolest is their new Cassette Cleaning Floss, an elastic strap with rubberized loops on either end to make cleaning between the cogs of a tight, dirty cassette super easy. Stretch it thin the string out for narrower spaces (ie. 11 speed). Even better, it’s only about $3.00.

The Slippery Spitt Lube is a non-toxic, silicone enhanced wet lube that claims to be super durable, and it won’t thicken in the cold. Their new Cleaning Wipes come in two sizes and are available in single- and 4-packs. They’re solvent free but will cut through grease and grime after a repair or if your bike needs a polish. Check the pic of the floss in action after the break…

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Rolling Orange Bikes is a Brooklyn, NY, based bike shop that imports Dutch brand like Da Fietsfabriek and Union, among others. The kids cargo bike above was the coolest one they had on display (perhaps there are no child labor laws there?), but check a couple more in the background and after the break…

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Photo submitted by Gonzalo.

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While BMC’s 29er is still in prototype form, the bike made an appearance at Sea Otter in order for the bikes to be handed off to their U23 development team. The 29er hints at what’s to come from the Swiss manufacturer, as well as word that a 100mm travel full suspension bike will follow.

For now, details are short, and all we have to show you are some close up detail shots after the break!

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• Cyclists who participate in the Canary Century anti-cancer benefit ride on May 28 can win a custom Cervélo race bike and ride alongside top San Francisco Bay Area pros including Freddie Rodriguez, John Novitsky, Joao Correia, Brooke Miller and more. Other prizes include a Canary Century ride kit and the opportunity to pedal with members of Team Garmin-Cervélo. More info here.
• The Bud Brake (pic after the break) is antilock brakes for your bicycle. It balances input from either lever, or both, to activate both front and rear brakes in a preset ratio to keep them from locking up, helping you stop under control and safely. Check them out at absbrakesforbicycles.com.
• Cycling Sports Group (aka: Cannondale, Mongoose and GT) has just set up a twitter account to list job openings. Interested? Follow them at Twitter.com/Cannondale_Jobs. Cannondale is also running their Off the Front promo to give away goodies and keep you abreast of their Liquigaas team at the Amgen Tour of California. Register at Cannondale .com.
• Ray’s MTB Park in Cleveland, OH, is having their massive Raffle Jam this weekend. Flyer and details after the break.
• Kona’s Shoot the Ride contest is now in it’s fourth year, and they’re opening up the voting to YOU! Go to www.konaworld.com/shoot2011.cfm for submission guidelines and contest rules, but basically the best pics that tell the story of your most awesomest ride ever should win.
• Signed up for an event and want to raise money for a charity? Sportsgrant’s Project One lets you turn any event into your own fundraising event for a charity of your choice…from their preselected annual list. Simply register your planned activity with them, then go through the normal paces of hitting up friends and family to pledge support, just like in grade school.
• The Velodroid app (~$3.20 USD) is being introduced as an Android app “for serious cyclists, developed by nerdy cyclists.” It has a clean and simple interface for tracking your ride, elevation, gradient, and will let you upload your data to any online service. We like their tagline: “No access to Spanish steaks? You can still train smarter with Velodroid’s Intervals feature.”
• From the League of American Bicyclists: “Your state DOT may be getting ready to take away millions of dollars in bicycle and pedestrian funding. In the latest budget deal between the Republicans and Democrats, the two parties agreed to rescind (read: take back) $2.5 billion in unspent federal transportation funds. Your state DOT has the power to decide which funds they send back. And based upon history we know what happens next… Last year, when states had to send back $2.2 billion in transportation funds, almost half of that money came from programs that fund bicycling and walking projects.” Take action today: Click here for more information and to compose and send a message to the governor of your state.
• Prescott College students, along with the One Street organization, are working together to make their college town (of Prescott, Arizona) a more bicycle friendly town. One Street plans on using the success of this plan to help other university towns in need of friendlier transportation options.
• The Freiburg bike collective is having a handmade bike show in Freiburg, Germany, May 7th and 8th.

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After the recent announcement of finally introducing an 11 speed TT group, Campagnolo has been hard at work increasing their commitment to TT and Tri. Proof? Check out the new Bora Ultra 80 wheel. The addition of an 80mm deep wheel to their aero line up is sure to be welcomed, as riders can now pair them with the Bora Ultra One and Two to accommodate different courses and conditions.

More than simply introduce a new wheel, Campy has gone even further and introduced a new muted aesthetic to their aero wheel line up that is sure to please riders going for that look.

What makes a Campy Aero wheel special? Find out after the break!

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Pivot Bikes brought out their new M4X four-cross mountain bike just for their sponsored riders to race at Sea Otter. Not only did they test it out through the slaloms and jumps, but Kyle Strait raced his to a 12th place in the downhill.

The new bike uses their DW Link suspension design with 4″ of travel. It has a much much shorter lower link than the DH, but about the same as the Mach4. Because there’s no front derailleur, Chris Cocalis, Pivot’s founder, could really box section and overbuild the front of the rear triangle and linkage. Lower link bearings are set really wide and double row like the new Pheonix DH bike, and the tubeset is same as the Firebird.

More pics and specs after the break…

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Bianchi has just released a limited edition matte black version of their Sempre road bike. With a matte black carbon frame, custom deep dish Vision wheels and a SRAM Red Black build with black carbon FSA SL-K cranks, it’s looking pretty sweet to us (although the blacked out chainrings of SRAM’s complete Black group would have really put it over the top!).

It’ll be available in the U.S. in June for $6,399 while they last. Introduced at Interbike last year, the Sempre is a crit-racer style bike aimed at the U.S. crowd. It’s got a BB30 with compact crankset and straight 1-1/8″ steerer. Detail photos after the break…

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Photo submitted by Paolo Castaneda, “Riding along Subic Bay Freeport in the Philippines in the morning and saw this ‘gathering’ in the sky near the airport.  Had to stop and take a pic.”

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We’ve posted a few peeks at the upcoming Kona DH/freeride mountain bike with 7″ of travel and now they’ve got some video posted showing Graham Agassiz ripping it through Kamloops and Cache Creek for, uh, R&D. Word is we’ll actually get to throw a leg over this at their dealer/press event in August, then you can look for it to get all public shortly thereafter.

Want more? Check out Kona’s micro-site with tons of info about the why, what and when of the 2012 Kona Entourage.

Diamondback’s had the Sortie full suspension mountain bike out for a bit, heading up their trail bike department. For 2012, they’ll add a 29er version, shown above pretty much as it’ll be in production. It uses their Knucklebox suspension design with 100mm in the rear and built around 120mm in the front. More pics and info after the break…

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Foes Racing showed off the Shaver, a work-in-progress trail bike with 5″ to 5.5″ of rear wheel travel that’s adjustable via different shock mounts. The pivot placement and leverage ratio have been adjusted to give it a hard candy shell for efficient acceleration and controlled bottom out with a creamy center for plush performance in the rough stuff. Specs include a tapered headtube, optional ISCG05 mounts and 142×12 rear axle dropouts, triple butted hydroformed 6061 aluminum tubes. All standard coil-over and air shocks will work with the frame. Pricing options after the break…

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