It was the brand’s expanded 29er platform that turned many heads, however, with the Zaskar leading the charge with a carbon build, due October and retailing for £3,299. GT has redeveloped its popular Avalanche, dropping between two and three pounds from the overall bike weight, all while building in forged dropouts and a host of other tidy features into the bike. The new frame designs have dropped some weight over last year’s builds through improved tube profiling and CSG UK’s influence on design has made the build much more UK trailcentre friendly. ![]() Downhill and freeride is also bolstered with refinements to the freeride-suited £3,999 Pinner and downhill ready Booter. Two builds, the £1,600 Comp and £2,300 Expert will be available, comprising a tapered headtubed frame and fork set up, SRAM 2×10 gearing and Rock Shox rear shock among other features. If that sounds of interest, grab the Mongoose Slayton when it arrives later this year. That is unless you’re looking for a 120mm trail bike to fill a gap in your stock. Not too much to report from the Mongoose line, despite massively increased numbers arriving on UK shores. Touting the newly developed trade-exclusive web domain – .uk – as a driving force in keeping the turnover fluid, Merry tells BikeBiz that year-on-year, this avenue to purchasing product has increased five-fold. Xposure fills this gap well, with no compromises on product.” I’d imagine this is largely down to the majority of the BMX market not having endless budgets for top-end components. Today it’s distributed in more than ten countries with major territories such as the US and Australia doing good business. “Then there’s Xposure, which this time last year was solely a UK brand. Aside from these developments, there’s plenty more to shout about, including Mongoose’s strongest ever orders for BMX, topping 28,000 units arriving in the country this year. “Bringing on Muc-Off, the leader in their territory, is the first step toward this. ![]() “A stronger parts and accessories business is certainly on the horizons for Cycling Sports Group,” confirms Merry. These in-molded designs span £29.99 through £69.99 in £20 jumps between models. What’s more, it makes for use of a super stiff BB30, revamped vibration dampening chainstays and if your customer is seeking upgrades there’s always a Tiagra spec build at £949.99 or a 105 option at £1,049.99.įor the most part, however, dealers were fondling the brand’s helmets – first spotted at PressCamp earlier in Summer. The aluminium frame is potentially the lightest aluminium-framed build found in the sub £1,000 price bracket, says Cotty. Among that delivery will be the IQ line of cycle computers ranging from £29.99 through to £59.99, a multi-tool called the Kitchen Sink compiling 13 of the most commonly used trail tools, as well as a chain breaker and a Mavic spoke tool, among others.īike wise, brand manager Mike Cotty indicated that if dealers are looking for a hot tip on big sellers in the 2012 catalogue then they’d not go far wrong securing a few Cannondale CAAD8 builds at £750 retail price. Plenty of Cannondale’s accessories debuted at the show will land with the Poole distributor in January. ![]() Among the ‘first looks’ was a new £35 handlebar, a new stem with colour co-ordinated bolts and sprockets in various colours – all of which will be landing during September.Ĭannondale too are diversifying deeper into components and accessories and Ride the Revolution held the UK debut of a much extended line of components, tools and accessories.Īmong these, and a particular item of interest to many dealers present, were the US-made SL Hollowgram crankset, retailing at £799.99 and available in two 7075 T6 double ring arrangements. Still based around Xposure’s on-a-budget ethos, Infinity fills the gap between entry-level and top-end components with a slight increase in the ‘bling factor’ popular with BMX riders, though not to the extent where simple components such as stems and sprockets end up out of reach to the pocket money budget buyer. Now an annual fixture, CSG’s house show for 2011 played host to seven international brand experts, over 200 of the distributor’s customers, some from as far afield as Scotland and two new brands – Muc-Off and Sugoi – joined the party, while other established labels diversified away from traditional offerings.īeginning with a brand the distributor’s co-director Russell Merry describes as one of the “tremendous success stories” from the portfolio, Xposure products, while an entry level brand, now has sub division and second SKU, dubbed Infinity.
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