It’s that time of year, the 2012 Cyclepassion calendar is about to be unveiled at Eurobike. Whether you love it, or hate it, the 2012 edition features even more beautifully shot photographs of the top women of the sport. New to the calendar this year, is the option to view the calendar one of two ways: either the full color traditional Cyclepassion photo, or a black and white action photo of each lady tearing it up on the bike.

The Cyclepassion Calendar is a large 16×27″ format, which will retail for $50 and be available in the US this year through Fair Wheel Bikes.

Check out a few sneak peeks along with the full calendar line up, after the break!

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Leaked just yesterday, the 2012 Rockshox Monarch XX carbon-bodied rear shock is now official. It’ll come with their XLoc hydraulic remote lockout, which mounts to the shock behind the rebound lever on a bezel that lets it rotate 360º. Unlike a mechanically operated (ie. cable) lockout that requires a fixed piece to pull against, this lets the hose move with the suspension if necessary and should make installation much easier and cleaner.

Click through for full specs, pricing, weights and the answer to your most burning question: whether or not there’s a dual XLoc lever coming…

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Stevens Bicycles new-for-2012 items that’ll actually be hitting showroom floors are all pictured after the break, and there’s some good stuff. But, as usual, I was smitten at first with anything labeled Prototype. Their carbon cyclocross bike with disc brakes has been popping up more and more lately, usually bedazzled with the TRP Parabox, but at Eurobike they tamed it down a bit with Avid mechanicals and had it very, very production-ready looking…I’d say it’ll be a mid-2012 launch at latest.

Click on through for a couple more pics of this so it’s outta my system, then we’re on to the real bikes, including their “Lightest Road Bike Ever!”…

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Phil Wood had a few new goodies to show at Eurobike. Above are the new Annihilator 2 BMX hubs.  The new A2′s will retail for $179 front and $207  rear. They use larger size bearings with oversize axles. Essentially, it’s a beefed up design of their original Annihilator. Available now.

Not pictured is a collaboration with White Industries on a stainless steel belt drive hub. WI makes the adapter and Phil makes the cog out of stainless steel because no special coating is required to improve durability versus an alloy cog, but it was a bit heavy. Looked fantastic, though.

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Carbon-Ti makes a full spectrum of chainrings for road and mountain bikes. The big rings have an aluminum tooth section on a carbon spider and come in around 50g to 60g depending on size. The Ti MTB big rings are about 60g, also, but the grannies are 25g to 28g.

Prices range from €220 for the carbon/alloy big rings down to €150 for the full titanium big rings to €40 for the Ti granny gears. Detail pic after the break…

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Borrowing a page from the asphalt, SRAM has just debuted the Quarc Quatro power meter crankset for mountain bikes. It’ll use the same basic interface between the crank arm and chainrings to measure how many horses you’re laying down.

The Quatro uses the lightweight X0-level carbon fiber crankarms and gets a user replaceable battery that’s good for a reported 400+ hours of ride time per CR2450 battery. It communicates via ANT+, making it compatible with Garmin, etc, and Training Peaks software among others.

There arenGXP and BB30 options, and the system mirrors the road setup’s +/-2% accuracy.

Weight is 814g with GXP bottom bracket, BB30 will be lighter. It uses their X-Glide chainrings and will have only 2×10 chainring options in 42/28 and 39/26 options. Available in October, pricing TBD.

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As the result of a project that was started back in 2008, Ibis has finally unveiled their newest bike: the 120mm travel full suspension Ripley. Rather than just stuff 29 inch wheels into a stretched out Mojo SLR frame, Ibis reached out to suspension guru Dave Weagle to create a platform that would do the big wheels justice. The result? A surprising remake of the famed DW Link suspension where the two short links have been replaced by 2 small eccentrics.

With a new look, and a boat load of features, Ibis’ 29′er looks like it could be worth the wait.

More details inside!

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DT Swiss rolled put several new wheels and hubs for road and mountain.

The RRC road wheel line gets new Dicut hubs with sharp machined edges at the spoke bed. The changes are more than cosmetic, though. They use entirely new nail head spokes that rest inside the flange and keep the aero spoke profile facing straight forward. An alloy cap threads on to cover them, and the bearing sit just inboard of them, making it easy to replace a spoke. The rear hub has a taller driveside flange and flanges were moved a couple millimeters out to give it a wider platform for a laterally stiffer wheel. They’re available in 32,46 and 66mm depths in tubular and clincher. The rim is a new carbon to prevent any past delamination issues. The new carbon layup on the brake track dissipates heat better now.

Detail pics and weights, plus the hubs and mountain bike stuff, after the break…

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Jagwire showed off a new Slick-Shield Road Cable Kit that has a new cable coating that’s slicker than the current Teflon coated cables. The housing is the same, their Kevlar reinforced housing. Unfortunately, it’s so new they didn’t have the tech details on what exactly the coating is.

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Hayes’ new Stroker Dyno is an entry level hydraulic brake that will retail for under $100 per wheel.

Weight is 400g per pair and come with branded Vesrah high performance pads, a nice touch for brakes that are likely to get spec’d on sub $900 bikes. Oh, and they have a lifetime leakproof warranty.

Rotors will be available in all sizes 140 thru 203mm.

Two models will be available, Comp with reach adjust and Sport without. Color options are white/black and full black.

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Photo submitted by Fred Grinnel, “Adam Schmuckal descending the West side of the Miner’s Creek
Trail, Summit County, CO.”

To see more Pics of the Day, click here, and to submit your own photo to be shown to the world, go here.

Rockshox has a formal press announcement scheduled for tomorrow, but they just leaked this image of an all-new Monarch XX rear shock with X-Loc hydraulic remote lockout. Seems SRAM likes to trickle things out this year.

Assuming it works like the XLoc for their forks, the action should be super smooth at the button with minimal weight added to the system. If it’s a true, full lockout with only “emergency” break open valves a la Floodgate, we’ll be pretty pleased.

More coming soon…