Rodalink held a demo day for their much anticipated Colossus N9 at Bangkit Hut Chestnut North Trail recently. This bike is the first non-electric Polygon mountain bike to adopt the six-bar linkage – Independent Floating Suspension (IFS). First impressions had been good. Here’s the details.
Over my couple-of-tens years of cycling, I have custom built many bikes, from BMXes to street/DJ to mountain bikes. I have used frame materials from chromoly to steel to aluminium and carbon. Till now, I have refrained from choosing titanium frames or components for a few reasons: (1) pricey (2) they didn’t match the look I was planning for my custom builds (3) these products last forever! And that would make me feel “guilty” when vanity craving strikes and I want to change a frame or components. Fast forward to present day, I am now even more sentimental with metal frames than before. I still enjoy my carbon-frame builds though but metal frames give me that added nostalgic feeling. (Ed: it has personality) And so it goes … one of my latest build uses the 7005 aluminium custom-built Canfield Lithium frame. To build it to my intended weight range, I went “motley” and used a mix of material for it. Here’s the outcome
Chom Thong (pronounced as Jom Thong) is situated to the south of Mueng Chiang Mai. It was here that we experienced some of the flowiest and fun gravity trails these parts of Northern Thailand. Here’s the sweet details about these new trails.
Mention Batam to any gravity mountain biking junkie and talks about the old Bukit Dangas trails would pop up. Those were some good memories to a now defunct trail. Moving forward, we now have Badak Bike Park! Yet to visit this bike park yet? We did a quick round-up of what you can expect to find there.
Bikezilla came across a very interesting mountain bike brand a short while back. When we spoke with the folks behind the brand, we found them having real riders’ attitude – just the type of folks we’d love to meet. Meet Berm Cycle – born out of Singapore and ready for the world!
Rising Canadian downhill star Jackson Goldstone became the youngest-ever winner of Red Bull Hardline as the 18-year-old dominated the world’s toughest downhill course to win the race in Wales by more than six seconds over local riders Joe Smith and Taylor Vernon.
The Covid period changed the lifestyle of many people. There was a sudden surge of people calling themselves “cyclist”. A handful of them chose mountain biking. While Covid is not totally gone yet, things are gradually returning back to some semblance of pre-Covid days. Naturally, many “Covid Cyclists” went back to their old hobbies. Not all of them. Chong started his mountain biking life sometime during this period. He had since upgraded his mountain bike, got himself better equipped on his weekly endeavor at our local trails. This is how he got started.
Fresh off a Gold Medal win from the X Games, Dawid Godziek treated the Title Slopestyle course at SilverStar Bike Park like it was his very own playground and absolutely stomped his first run of finals today landing him top spot on the podium with a score of 94.
Flatland BMX legend Terry Adams travelled from his native Louisiana to East Tennessee to dance in the glow of its fabled fireflies in his latest project to expand the sport’s popularity.
The Singapore Cycling Federation (SCF) organised the OCBC Cycle National Championship, Mountain Bike Downhill at Kent Ridge Bike Park on 19 June 2022. This was the third mountain bike national championship event following the cross- country short track (XCC) and cross-country Olympics (XCO) held on 4 and 5 June respectively.
