Five Ten is shipping two new shoes for flat pedal fan boys. If you’re not familiar with the brand, the shoes have long set the gold standard for durability, comfort, and stickiness on and off the trail.

You may have seen their shoes on Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible, Ghost Protocol, or in the award-winning wingsuit stunts in Transformers 3. This summer, Twilight Breaking Dawn will be the next Hollywood vehicle for Five Ten. Teaser alert: If you’re planning on attending any concerts this summer, keep an eye out for Five Ten to hit the stage in a big way.     (more…)

Sea Otter is a spectacle filled with so much awesome the coverage could literally never end. Here’s a few juicy components I wish adorned some of my bicycles.

This new MRP Bling Ring allows you to run an ultra small chain ring. The design utilizes SRAMs spline system to bypass the limited range offered by traditional chain rings. Normal chain rings in the middle position, utilized by the majority of single speed rigs, are limited by the bolt circle diameter to no smaller than a 32. With the bling ring riders can choose from a 28,30,32,34, and 36 tooth setup. The guide is a modified G2 Micro SL.

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This may be a deodorant commercial, but that doesn’t take anything away from the bad hattery of Darren “The Claw” Berrecloth – the godfather of freeride.

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Just because you’re not riding a couch with wheels doesn’t mean you can’t go big. Freeride legends Thomas Vanderham and Wade Simmons show us what it looks like when they take their little bikes out to play.

If you were wondering, yes, the Element MSL is the same frame Marc rode on the 16.5 mile loop in the 24 hr race on  the Old Pueblo course!

Want more? Work slow? Coffees not cutting it? We’ve got you covered. Check past the break.

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Do you know what all the un-coordinated kids have been dreaming about as they longingly gaze at their friends hooning their clapped out department store bikes? A four wheeled, American made, 40 lb monster, with 8″ of travel!

The video says it almost all. Fast forward a minute to watch the beast in action. By beast, I mean the rider, he throws a little bar tweak and triples that first set of rollers like he could do it all day on a 20″ rigid two wheeled contraption.

Sure, haters will poke fun at the concept (myself included), but it may find a niche for those interested in taking their bungling buddies off the beaten track.

No word on whether they’re considering 650B wheels as a standard option, but you can order one configured for a gamut of disciplines including BMX, Downhill, or XC. Check past the break for the geometry, weight, and options.

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SE Bikes loves the classics, still manufacturing the fluted seatpost. Now, they have additional retro bling in the lineup. SE’s 10mm Retro Headset Spacers emulate threaded lock nuts to make threadless headsets look old-school threaded.  They’ll fit any standard 1-1/8″ steer tubes. Available in the colors featured above, each aluminum spacer can be picked up for $5.50.  You can buy them here.

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• “Love” is the word this Mother’s Day with this limited edition 8″x12″ giclee print – yours free with purchase of one of these four featured tees from Après Velo.
• Our Bikerumor Bike Shop Video Challenge is on! Enter your shop’s video to win a feature article about your shop and it’s employees on Bikerumor.com and the coveted Bikerumor Cup. When you send us the link to your video, please include the website url for your shop and any info you want us to know. Good luck!
• Prices go up May 1st for all Sufferfest videos. Order now to save some coin.
• The National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) will be expanding to accommodate the growth in High School mountain biking across the country. As many as three more regions will be joining the association’s Project League program by 2013 with applications from Arizona, Tennessee, Georgia, Maryland, Virgina, West Virginia, and New York.
• Join Bike for Kam on their ride from San Francisco to Santa Monica on May 12-19th, or donate to help raise money for HIBM.
• The Pedal Pushers Club is launching a new series of t-shirts exclusively with City Sports. You can purchase them online or in their shops in Boston, DC, Philly, Providence, NYC, and Baltimore. If you order online, City Sports is offering free shipping through the month of May on all cycling gear in honor of bike month!
• We Have Motive is a new website on all things BMX.

Deity components began as a small rider owned business in early 2004, focused on the after market, and their market share and product line has blossomed in the intervening time. The companies recent success has allowed them to expand their dedicated dirt jump line up to include freeride, downhill, and all mountain oriented components. Set for release this summer and fall are brand new bars, stems, and saddles in delicious ano colors, and weight weenie pleasing weights.

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What if every street session had its own soundtrack? A new concept product called Turntable Rider seeks to make every unique line and ride into its own musical track. Created by COGOO, a Japanase bike share program, the kit converts brakes into a sound pad, a gyroscopic motion pad acts as a fader pad, and the wheels become jog wheels.The raw music is fed via a bluetooth app to your iPhone or iPad.

This system will add aprx 900 grams to your ride, but now your bike will create music, rather than just the occasional creak.

How Does it Work?

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Absolute Black, makers of the lighest functional centerlock rotors on the market, released this image of a  prototype ultralight flat pedal. Unfortunately, the company will focus on several new plans for decreasing the weight and maximizing the functionality of their existent rotor line up before turning their attention to this project. Weight goal is 240 grams.

From the sketch it’s hard to determine, but I’ll wager its running either a set of igus bushings on both sides, or a ball bearing outboard and igus inboard. The axle appears to have a larger inboard diameter that might not accommodate an inboard ball bearing.

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*not* a good use of Vise Grips. or a trolley wheel. or a bicycle.