These were shot during Fanatik Team rider Stewart Bowmer’s victory. With speeds up to 42 mph, these guys definitely don’t want to crash!
The Veolia Desert Challenge, held Saturday, December 5th, was Israel’s largest bike race to date with some 1,500 competitors. The start of this two-person team mountain bike event is located near the Dead Sea resort town of En Bokek. Race options included 25K, 50K and 70K courses in the Mt.Sodom desert region, with mixed, open and age-graded team categories. My brother Rod and I arrived at En Bokek on Thursday to pre-ride the course, soak up some sun, float in the 30% saline Dead Sea and enjoy the 75+ degree temps.
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This is quite possibly one of the finest custom bikes we have built. Parts include a Point One Racing Limited Edition direct mount stem, Dura Ace cassette, Cane Creek Double Barrel rear shock, Boxxer World Cup fork, Chris King hubs and BB, Twenty6 Rallye Ti pedals, and a Thomson Masterpeice seatpost. It’s even got a carbon post clamp with a titanium bolt! Nearly every other bolt is ano-gold titanium as well.The bike weighs in at a respectable 36.8 lbs. Still to come: custom ano-gold Obtanium titanium spring…
Looking to build your dream bike? Check out our Custom Bike Builder page for details on how to get started.
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- XO gold derailleur, KMX X9 SL Gold chain, Dura Ace Cassette
- Gold XO derailleur
- Twenty6 Rallye Ti Urban Camo Pedals
- Chris King bottom bracket
- Shimano Saint brakes, ano gold ti brake caliper bolts, ano gold ti rotor bolts
- Point One Racing stem, Ano Gold Ti Bolts, Sunline V1 bars
- Ano gold titanium boxxer crown bolts
- Point One Racing stem, Ano Gold Ti Bolts
- SRAM XO Gold Shifter
- Cane Creek Double Barrel, Ti Spring
- Titanium Thomson bolts
- Thomson Masterpeice Post, Carbon post clamp w/Ti bolt
- SDG Ti Fly Seat
- Intense 951
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Intense 951 frames are here, and they are flyin’ out the door quicker than we can keep them in stock! So far we have gotten at least one of every color, except for white. I took the opportunity to snap some shots of each color!
Check out our website for current stock!
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We are pretty darn lucky to work in the bike biz. We get to drool over all kinds of new technology, and be some of the first to get our hands on it. Fresh in are the new ’09 Evil Revolt frames. We decided to go all out and build up a race-ready revolt for the floor. As it sits, it weighs in at 37.6 pounds!
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Thanks to Matt D from WHIMPS for the following post…
The day started with coffee, donuts (provided by Fanatik), and good times in the upper Padden lot gearing up and getting ready to leave for a day on the trails. I counted 35 people in the parking lot milling around before catching a ride up to get started. We gathered everyone together and were all dispersed and working hard by 10:45. I walked from the bottom of the work zone to the top around 11:30 and there were 42 people working – this doesn’t include the number of other people who stopped by to help out for an hour or so. I would say that we had around 50 people total help out in some capacity – WOW! Definitely our biggest turnout this year! Fanatik personally had a number of people come and help out, not to mention providing lunch, Red Bull, and other bevies. We were able to get the lower scorp reroute buffed and 90% done – it just needs some tweaking to make the berms and step-up hit right. Also, we got 90% of the upper luge section down to mineral dirt, shaped, bermed, a nice jump built, and a natural spring diverted (thanks to a couple of civil engineers). The day finished with 6 or 7 people hittin’ the new upper luge section over and over, good times for sure. A special thanks to the following people:
Fanatik Bike: with their 2 sponsored trail days this season, it brought in well over 80 volunteers for our local trails and about 300 plus hours of labor – not to mention the owners Mark and Kathy were diggin’ hard along with a number of their employees and friends – not to mention all the food and beverages!
Volunteers: We have gotten so much done this year because of the huge turnouts!
Greg: The guy on Galbraith lane who has built that incredible compound. He arranged access to the coveted gate that rarely gets used – this made it much easier and enabled a bunch of cars up that wouldn’t have made the death climb.
Tim and Louise: The owners of Una and the horses that let us use their gate to make access easier.
Trillium and Jon Syre – Without them we may not be able to build trails there.
If you see any of these people, give a big thanks!
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Phil, Brian Ecker, Stewart and I started the 1/2 race with about 45 riders including Morgan Schmitt (Bissell Pro Cycling), who just won the criterium at the Sea Otter Classic and then finished 3rd behind winner Levi Leipheimer in the road race the next day. Also present was under 23 national cyclocross champion Nicholas Weighall.
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The SST trail day was a success! We had around 30-40 people show up to help buff out SST. Thanks to all for your help! We hope to have all the help again on our next trail day. We will be working on Luge on April 25th. More details on that soon!
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Note: Story written by Stewart, posted by Fanatik.
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we were warned that Day 4 was not just a ride to the beach just because it has only 6000 feet of elevation gain. there were about 7 working railroad bridges to be crossed. that seemed sketchy but there was a lot of work to do before than, so we tried to postpone that fear.
the day started with a climb back up thru the coffee plantation. it recalled more hooting going down, but was able to get me and the bike to the top. have you seen the guys pushing their big rigs to the towers on Galbraith? that was me for good chunks of the climbs today even while the rider with a prosthetic leg climbed past me.
on the first descent, I was thinking of how great it was I had had no mechanicals, not even a flat. than my bike started making a knasty knack knacking on the rough downhill. I stopped to see what was falling apart but could not ID it. on the next paved flat section my rear derailleur was wonky. the cable housing had exploded. I still had about 110km left for the day and was hoping to shift a few times in the process.
was able to patch it together with duct tape and zip ties and nursed it along by only shifting the front for the rest of the day. my legs felt great all day. Daryl Smith, you are the man. the training worked perfectly. much thanks!
Mark caught me by after the zip tie action and we rode together for the rest of the day. we had developed a paceline of about 12 by the bridge section. this race was a great experience to work so hard with other riders. there is a strong bond felt. OK, back to the bridge, it was a sketch as previously imagined. a slip or step on a loose tie could be serious.
we had to ride several miles of railroad tracks that were largely filled in with fist size rocks. the sections with exposed ties were tough on body and bike.
finally, with about 10 miles we could see the surf and road along a parallel road, getting tired, but hung in there to a sweet finish.
the water was the best ever and the wave washed a lot of the pain away. my family is exhausted from trooping along with me but they did great and were are looking foward to a few days of rest on the coast.
one crank at a time,
Brett
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