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Tech News – August 8, 2003
Edited by Paul Mirtschin
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A world record fell, medals were chewed and three of the big players in track frames were very happy campers after the world track championships in Stuttgart, Germany last week.
BT's record-breaker
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Australia's BT Technologies made the bikes ridden by most of the Australian and New Zealand teams as well as Leontien Zijlaard Van Moorsel of the Netherlands.
The latest BT bikes, made from pre-pregnated high modulus carbon fibre were used by the Australian men's 4000m team pursuit squad in their world record-breaking run, while the bike painted up as a Koga under Queen Leontien was actually built by BT.
The Australian BT bikes also ran a new crankset made from CNC-machined, 7000 series aluminium.
The medals
Gold
- Women's 3000m individual pursuit: Leontien Zijlaard Van Moorsel (Netherlands)
- Men's 4000m team pursuit: Australia
Silver
- Men's sprint: Jobie Dajka (Australia)
- Men's 4000m individual pursuit: Luke Roberts (Aus)
- Women's 3000m individual pursuit: Katie mactier (Australia)
- Men's kierin: Jobie Dajka (Aus)
- Men's Madison: New Zealand (Gregory Henderson, Hayden Roulston)
- Women's scratch: Rochelle Gilmore (Australia)
- Men's 1000m: Shane Kelly (Australia)
Look at the medals
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French frame and pedals maker Look is celebrating this week after the 14 medals won on Look bikes during the track world's.
Look supplied its new KG396 Sydney frames to the French, German, Chinese, Russian and Mexican teams. The KG 396 Sydney is a monocoque carbon frame specially designed for track racing.
The Medals
Gold
- Men Individual Sprint: Laurent Gané (France)
- Men Keirin: Laurent Gané (France)
- Men KM Time Trial: Nimke (Germany)
- Men Team Sprint: Germany (Fiedler, Wolff, Bergemann)
- Women Points Race : Slioussareva (Russia)
- Women Scratch Race : Slioussareva (Russia)
Silver
- Men Sprint team : France (Gané, Bourgain, Tournant)
- Women 500 M Time Trial : Nancy Contreras (Mexico)
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Bronze
- Men Individual Sprint: Wolff (Ger)
- Men Kilomètre: Arnaud Tournant (France)
- Men Team Pursuit : France (Merciris, Neuville, Perque, Sanchez)
- Women Sprint : Nancy Contreras (Mexico)
- Women 500 M time Trial : Jiang (China)
- Women Pursuit: Slioussareva (Russia)
Look has also recently released a "Centenary of the Tour de France" frame and pedal.
The Centenary frame, a limited edition of 300, was specially designed for the Centenary Tour. Made by hand, and complete with Look's new HSC4 carbon fork, the frame retails for 2375 euros.
The Look A5.1 Centenary pedal is based on the CX 6 carbon pedal, and Look says it has an extra light aluminium body and a cold-forged axle. The pedal is priced at 139 euros.
Teschner sprints on
Australian framebuilder Peter Teschner is also happy with performances on his bikes at the track world's. Australia's Anna Meares placed second in the women's keirin aboard a Teschner and Teschner also supplied Australian Olympic Sprint team member Ryan Bailey.
Teschner told Cyclingnews, "Ryan Bailey's brand new frame is painted the same two-tone grey as Sean Eadie's. However it also had a new 340gram all-carbon track fork from Concept Z in West Australia installed."
Medals
- Silver: Women's keirin - Anna Meares (Australia)
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Hincapie goes into clothing
There comes a point where every pro rider starts to think about what he'll do when he hangs up his team colours, and while USPS rider George Hincapie says he isn't planning to retire any time soon, he and brother Rich are looking to the sportswear business for life after racing. Hincapie Sportswear, according Rich, was "created to meet the growing need for competition-quality cycling clothing", and is branching out beyond the custom-clothing business that it's specialised in to date.
George Hincapie hopes the clothing company will give him something to retire on - whenever that happens. "Cycling has been a part of my life for more than 20 years. I started Hincapie Sportswear, with my brother Rich, as a way to keep cycling in our family long after I retire from professional racing," said Hincapie. "I plan to race for many years to come, but there will be a day when I decide to call it quits."
Anticipating the coming northern hemisphere winter, Hincapie Sportswear has also announced a range of cold-weather clothing, featuring jackets, vests, gloves, shoe covers and baselayers. Highlights include a WindTex Polar Jacket that features a breathable WindTex shell with a brushed inner layer for extra warmth and SuperRoubaix side panels to provide increased breathability and comfort; and SuperRoubaix Knickers, featuring a bib top, Hincapie Gel-Gripper leg openings and H.A.P. chamois with no centre seam.
K2 to buy aluminium tubing company
K2 Sports, makers of mountain bikes and snowboards, has signed a letter of intent to buy Worth, a company that makes baseball equipment under the de Beer brand. The company also supplies aluminium tubing for various bikes including Cannondale's CAAD7 and some Moots models.
If the purchase goes ahead, K2 will likely combine its current Rawlings' softball business with Worth's. It is unknown if K2's ownership of Worth would affect the company's tubing sales.
Cervelo recalls Wolf carbon forks
Cervelo Cycles and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission have issued a recall for 317 Wolf road forks.
The forks were sold with 2003 model Soloist Team and Super Prodigy bikes and frame sets between April and July and have a large Cervelo logo printed in white outlined text on both fork legs. The carbon fibre forks can possibly crack near the crown.
Cervelo is asking consumers to return bikes with the recalled forks to their dealer or to call Cervelo's recall hotline on (866) 296-3137 to receive a free replacement.
Time's floatless ATAC
Time is rumoured to be about to introduce a new mountain pedal, the Time ATAC XS. The XS is a "cut-down" version of Time's ATAC pedal without the lateral float of the ATAC, Alium and Z-Pedals, but retaining the maintaining five degrees of rotational float. The pedal includes the new 13/17 degree release angle cleats used by the Z-Pedal and has a "Sensor Elasticity Tuner" which controls resistance to rotational float.
The ATAC XS line will include a carbon-composite bodied model with a titanium axle, a carbon composite bodied model with a steel axle, and a plastic composite bodied model with steel axle.
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