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SuperFly 100 Dream Come True

Those that follow my blog or at least know me as 29er guy will remember 8 months ago when I wrote my first impressions of my Gary Fisher HiFi 29er. I loved the bike, but couldn't help but wonder how much nicer it would be if it were a few pounds lighter. I had been riding a Superfly hardtail for a year and loved the way the carbon bike climbed. I sent an e-mail to my "inside guy" at Fisher saying how much I liked the full suspension HiFi, but how I also thought it was the perfect platform for a carbon 29er. Well low and behold the SuperFly 100 is born. The first "spy photos" of the bike are all over the Internet and it looks great. http://www.velonews.com/photo/92616 The bikes shown have the RockShox Sid fork and rear shock, but my guy at Fisher says the bike will probably be speced with the Fox F100 RLC and Fox rear shock. I hope to see the new Fox 15mm thru axle fork, as I think this would really help the handling of this big wheeled bike. Dont worry, 29er guy will be one of the first to have this new beauty and I will keep you all posted.

Taint Paint - Great Name

If you have a tweeter acount with any activity you get a bunch of what I call Spam followers. I ususally just delete the notices but you got to love the twitter name of this guy:

Taint Paint (FrictionFreedom) is now following your updates on Twitter.

To bad they did not have the guts to name the product Taint Paint. I bet it would sell better.
http://www.frictionfreedom.com/

Would you take your bike if you had to evacuate?

Saw this picture (LA Times Bike Photo from the Santa Barbara fire). Started me thinking about which bikes I would take if I needed to leave my house in a hurry....

Free Tubeless Tire Conversion Seminar @ El Camino Bike Shop

Wednesday April 29th from 6-8pm
Here is the link:
http://tinyurl.com/cyzomo

Join Our own 29ER Guy (Will S.) and find out how to convert your Mtn Bike wheels to tubeless technology. Bontranger & Stans conversions will be presented.

What you need:

• Very little mechanical ability to install.
• Your existing non tubeless wheels or tubeless ready wheels

What you get:

• Fun evening with the mountain biking gang - AKA Swamis Gets Dirty
• 29ER Guy showing you the secret ins & outs of perfect tubeless conversions.
• Your lightweight wheel set can be converted to a tubeless set up with only 56 grams of added weight per wheel. Saving hundreds of dollars over purchasing new wheels.
• You will be able to keep using your lightweight tires and not be limited to buying expensive and much heavier tubeless specific tires.
• You can lose anywhere from 100 grams up to 400 grams of rotating weight per wheel set.
• Lower the air Pressure of your tires for better traction and ride and not worry about the dreaded pinch flat.

Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill April 2009

This guy is way out there...

Sunday Short Vista Twist Route

People are asking for the basic Vista Twist Route. I am not totally sure as I do not do the whole thing. Here is the ~40 mile version. I just learned how to us google maps to make courses that are more circluar and you can print these as apposed to www.mapmyride.com, which I paid $25.00 for and still do not seem to be able to print without a charge...


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