Team MTBCUT riding the new Red Route!

Stu over at MTBCUT.tv sent us this web edit of Ben Cartho, Joe Barnes and Chris Hutchens riding the new red route at Fort William last week.

 

Stu mentioned…

“It ended up as a nice little video of them playing on the new track. Incidentally after filming this Ben and Joe went on to finish 1st and 2nd in Elite at the British NPS round on the weekend.”

 

Team MTBCUT is kitted in custom Straitline boxxer stems platform pedals in a one off x-ray pink/black  just for them!

 

 

Check out the massive scrub to hip hematoma half way through…ouch!

 

Full story up on Pinkbike HERE

 

Stu took the time out of his hectic schedule to edit up some of our CNC footage for the Fort William World Cup big screen!  We will be showing more of our facility as the trade show season nears!

Short and sweet!

This Kid is not on payroll I swear!

I had this link sent to my by Ryan Rose of a home review done on our pedals.

I find it really cool how people see us online looking pretty assuming we are all hype but then when they score our gear they become our personal sales force. Enthusiasm is off the hook.

"May 6, 2008
Published by postcanyonloc


"Pedal Slipping" sucks!


"Once I discovered the Straitline Components website after seeing a great ad in a magazine. I sought out a pair of the visually stunning pedals, the best part is the "GraveDigger" lime green color. Having a superior pedal of this color is fine considering most of my race runs are based on that theme of barely pulling it off and not crashing. Although that is a fun part of racing, I wanted to limit the unwanted "dabs" to zero and have full pedal power to the finish line."

here is his blurb on Pinkbike.

Check out a tech review done by the Sicklines guys as well

So I just made up a build up video of the pedal to explain how stupid easy they are to maintain and inspect. This is of the 08 pedal, I will post the 07 pedal video shortly.


Now here is a tear down the and build up! Techical talk is for dorks, watch me nail this performance first take.. lol

Kurt Sorge scores 5th at Nissan Qashqai Challenge

Okay this shot was from Kurt in Kamloops weeks back it is hard to find any good coverage of the Nissan events at the moment but Kurt emailed us pumped on qualifying 5Th in such a rad event.
Dirt Magazine has posted some good coverage quoted as saying...

"Some of the other highlights of the day were Adam Hauck’s 720, Kurt Sorge’s superman to pendulum air, Alex Reveles’s Indian airs, and Tyler McCaul’s no footed can can x-ups."

"I am in Milan at the moment and just finished the first event of the Nissan Qashqai Series and I placed 5Th." "I will be on my way to Madrid, Munich, and London for the next 3 events of the series, so I will be back around the end of May. Alright thanks again, talk to you later.

-Kurt"

Before Kurt took off for Europe we built him a rad set of of our Xray pedals for the tour...


I opened them up and put a slight dab of white grease inside the bushing to make the pedal rotation super slow for the big tricks Kurt likes to throw down, guaranteeing the pedals to be where he wants them on the landings.

Top 5 results:
1 Trond Hansen SPECIALIZED NOR
2 Mischa Breitenstein KONA EUROPE SUI
3 Sam Pilgrim DIAMONDBACK BIKES GBR
4 Darren Pokoj FELT AUS
5 Kurtis Sorge GIANT BICYCLES CAN

We are pretty stoked to have Both Sorge and Lenosky of the Giant Team on our pedals could not have asked for better guys to deal with.

Lenosky set up the Sram event at Sea otter and the event looks wicked and it seems everyone who raced wants to see the format at other events in the future. Sadly Jeff was stuck in Starbucks lineup and lost some time running back to his bike and Kyle Strait ended up rightfully stealing the win this time.

Lenosky battling Goss

North Saanich bike park update!

Building in winter weather sucks but finally the sun has come out so it is go time. I took a few quick videos after we pushed the old park over and had a few extra truck loads of material dropped off by Gord Martman Excavating AKA raddest firm alive! Check it out.



Another vid...


And this is for all of those who desperatley pump their arms for a horn when the see a semi... dump truck porn.

Sexy new stems and spacers are in!

Pretty stoked on the stems, they have zero machining lines and each one is a clone of the next. Sexy! If you are new to our design click here to learn about how it works.

I am learning a new camera and the light settings always give me darker shots than normal so here are some sunlight shots of the new brown. As soon as I got the hang of it the sun went away, so use your imagination and pretend the spacers look the same because they have the same luster and change colours in the light.



Spacers are new and will be available as seen in 3/6/12/25mm sets in all of our colours.

Inside Joke-
Anyone recognise this beach shot? If so email me the nearest airport information... possible smuggling about to happen.

LENOSKY FUFANU "STRAPS" SOLD OUT!

K it ain't real but shockingly it takes people a while to figure it out! Last year our April Fools prank the iStem tapped into a niche market and we could have made some money!

If you are just staring at this shot going F*%#ing Sweet! Click these links or send me your visa info, your call! So we were looking at some forums and it seems some people just didn't get the straps as being fake. They are fake but the pedals are real and still available.


First we dropped it in Australia...
Farkin Australia
NSMB
Pinkbike

Decline
Whistler Mountainbike
VIMB

But this year Brad at Spectrum Techwear slayed everyone with his freeride cape, but knowing brad he probably didn't know it was april fools and luckily dropped a retarded product on the 1st and saved face!