Recently part of our Cycling Technology family Laird (son of co owner Beth) was diagnosed with Burkett’s Lymphoma. Beth, being a good Boulder mom, keeps her kids on a healthy mostly vegetarian diet. Laird, being a kid, loves beef jerky. Our great customer Duc sends us  jerky once in a while and Laird cant get enough of it. When Duc heard that Laird is sick he sent us a big shipment of  jerky. Then our friends at Denver Boulder Couriers brought it to Laird at the Children’s Hospital.

We want to say thank you to Duc and thank you to Denver Boulder Couriers for helping brighten Lairds day. (Duc is the second from the right) The world can be a crappy place sometimes and its good to know there are people out there who will help a sick kid they have never met.

We just built these up for a customer.  They came in at 1284g for a pair of clinchers! We used Tume Schwarzbrinner 24 Rims 20/24, DT-Swiss 240 rear hub Alchemy Elf front, Sapim CX-Ray spokes. One interesting thing about these wheels is that if we had used Extralite SX front and rear hubs we would have saved around 120g making these clinchers come in around 1160g, for clinchers…

Here we have some new dash hubs! The guys at Dash are always improving their designs and some how keep getting lighter and lighter. The set weighs 894g  by our scale(with steel spokes!).  If you were to use AX -Lightness rims they would be 804g. Ti spokes would make this even lighter, 700g wheel set anyone? The hubs use  full ceramic all but one place (where the cassette meets the hub)  but all hybrid bearings are an option.

The rear is 100.3g with 1 hybrid and 3 full ceramics and the front is 29.7g.

The wheels need to be built up before the bearings are pressed in, and the hubs need special tools to be worked on. So Dash will be selling wheel sets starting at the end of April for $3000. The hubs that you can work on will weigh more than the hubs that come pre built into a wheel and they will be coming out later this year.

After a few years we finally made a newsletter. Check it out http://eepurl.com/cP6TQ.

-Brian