We changed the world!The the latest issue of Mountain Bike Action (January 2009!) lists the Mountain Cycle San Andreas as one the the “50 mountain bike designs that changed the world”. Not only were we listed but put right up near the top. “Mountain Cycle San Andreas: This monocoque, dual suspension, inverted fork, disk-braked bike originally appeared in the November 1992 issue and sold for $1950 (frame and fork)…. Still a magnificent piece of engineering”. Thanks guys! Nice Shockwave VideoA Shockwave and some nasty Giant thing (ahum..) playing in the woods in the UK.
The link to the vid was pinged over by one of our biggest fans in the UK, Jon Morley who’s been ripping a Shockwave for a few seasons now. Big shout out also to the film-smith Paul Roberts, who’s also got some other great vids on PinkBike worth checking out. Walker in the snow…Many of the photographs used on this site were taken in the Swiss Alpes during this past summer by an American ex-pat called Will Walker. He and his brother Ben do a lot of photoshoots, trail digging and product testing during the dry summer months, so when the snow comes along they swap tyres for bindings and just keep on rippin’. Anyway, Will has just posted up some rather nice snaps onto the guest blog at Dirt Magazine, check them out, you might recognise the location in the 2nd pic – almost exactly where we took the Shockwave photo’s! MC is back online!Hello out there in Mountain Cycle land, We know it’s been a long time coming, very long in fact, but we are super happy to say that we are back online. We are still working on various sections over the next week or two, and even tweaking and adding but for the most part it’s all systems go. So bare with us as we put the final touches to the site, something we can only do with a live site but we hope you enjoy Mountain Cycle.com and will make it a frequent stop on your Internet travels.
MC in BikeBiz about Kick A$$Krien was recently interviewed by BikeBiz magazine, one of the leading bicycle trade industry journals, who were interested to find out more about our Kick A$$ policy. There is no doubt that this decision we have taken (to offer our products for sale to both consumers and bike shops) has caused some disgruntled muttering from some, old school, sections of the cycling industry. But it’s something that we believe in, and it also appears that we are not alone. Since this got published we’ve had a couple of messages of support from other bicycle brands, it is probable that they would also want to take this step, but that their business model doesn’t allow them to do so. Whatever the industry conjecture about this, the end result is clear and honest; we have reduced our MSRP prices by between 30-50% from where they were three years ago. We’ve done this without affecting quality, and in a period of time where, like all other bicycle brands, our manufacturing costs have gone up quite substantially in the last 18 months. You can read the article here. « Newer Posts — Older Posts » |
