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<em>SRAM unveil (some of) their 2007 offerings from SRAM, Rockshox and Avid. With the lure of a free sandwich, SRAM got most of the world's bike press turning up for their new product presentation.</em>
<br/><br/><div align="center"><b>Sea Otter Coverage In Association With...</b><br/><a href="http://www.singletrackworld.com/phpAds/adclick.php?n=ae97dd23" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.singletrackworld.com/phpAds/adview.php?clientid=439&n=ae97dd23" border="0"/></a></div><p></p><p align="center"><img height="400" alt="image" hspace="10" src="http://www.singletrackworld.com/mod/submit/images/1940-2.jpg" width="267" vspace="10" border="0"/></p><p align="left">Greg Herbold (nice hat...) is joined by World Marathon Champ, Thomas Frischknecht who talked about his season on the carbon Juicy brakes and how he was excited to be getting the new Juicy Ultimates... (more of them below).</p><p align="left">HB also introduced the 'SRAMnation' range of clothes and 'cool stuff', helped by the red wigged SRAMnation girls.</p><p align="center"><img height="267" alt="image" hspace="10" src="http://www.singletrackworld.com/mod/submit/images/1940-3.jpg" width="400" vspace="10" border="0"/></p><p>At the more humble range of the Avid range, the BB5 is now coming in black, but is otherwise unchanged (why change something that works so well?) though there are a few more changes in the Juicy hydraulic brake line.</p><p align="center"><img height="400" alt="image" hspace="10" src="http://www.singletrackworld.com/mod/submit/images/1940-4.jpg" width="267" vspace="10" border="0"/></p><p>The Juicy Seven a fla__sh black look, with polished lever and gains and aluminium adjustment dial, as seen on the Juicy carbon.</p><p align="center"><img height="267" alt="image" hspace="10" src="http://www.singletrackworld.com/mod/submit/images/1940-5.jpg" width="400" vspace="10" border="0"/></p><p>Looking at the top-end Juicy then, the new Juicy Ultimate is a very pared down XC race-ready brake set. It features a light carbon blade and a magnesium lever body. The pad-contact dial of the Juicy Seven and Carbon has been skipped in favour of a lighter Allen key adjustment, using a 2.5mm key - cleverly, the kind that you'll find on the removeable rebound adjust key at the bottom of a pair of Rockshox. At the caliper end, the caliper body is forged in one piece and finished in a high gloss finish with neat red alloy fla__sh piston cap. The other bolts are titanium and Avid has a new organic pad to go with the Ultimate. Weight for a 160mm rotor and brake is 343g. (There's a 140mm rear option and a 180mm front option)</p><p align="center"><img height="400" alt="image" hspace="10" src="http://www.singletrackworld.com/mod/submit/images/1940-6.jpg" width="267" vspace="10" border="0"/><br/><img height="345" alt="image" hspace="10" src="http://www.singletrackworld.com/mod/submit/images/1940-1.jpg" width="400" vspace="10" border="0"/></p> |
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