New component ideas:

We've been playing around with some new component ideas, here are a couple of products we're testing now:

Sin Ring: This an aluminum bash ring with a stainless steel outer ring. The stainless outter ring is super slippery (great for sprocket grinds) and is almost industructable. The nice thing about this setup is if and when you do wear out one side of the ring, you can unbolt it from the aluminum core and flip over. So it will last twice as long as a convential bash ring and given the overall durability of stainless steel, this could be the last bash ring you'll ever buy. Because it is a prototype, there is still a lot of excess material on the aluminum core, the production versions will be trimed down and look a lot cleaner.

http://www.sinisterbikes.com/test/sinring.jpg

Blade Rotor: This a titanium disk brake rotor (the one pictured is stainless, but the test units are ti), which are super light and have a very "sinister" profile. We are testing both 8 inch and 6 inch versions. The rotors are more of a "Bling Bling" item, but they are lighter than a convensional rotor and the "blade" profile helps to keep your pads cleaner than a traditional rotor.

http://www.sinisterbikes.com/test/sinrotor.jpg

So what do you guys think?

[MMcG]

We've been playing around with some new component ideas, here are a couple of products we're testing now:

Sin Ring: This an aluminum bash ring with a stainless steel outer ring. The stainless outter ring is super slippery (great for sprocket grinds) and is almost industructable. The nice thing about this setup is if and when you do wear out one side of the ring, you can unbolt it from the aluminum core and flip over. So it will last twice as long as a convential bash ring and given the overall durability of stainless steel, this could be the last bash ring you'll ever buy. Because it is a prototype, there is still a lot of excess material on the aluminum core, the production versions will be trimed down and look a lot cleaner.

http://www.sinisterbikes.com/test/sinring.jpg

Blade Rotor: This a titanium disk brake rotor (the one pictured is stainless, but the test units are ti), which are super light and have a very "sinister" profile. We are testing both 8 inch and 6 inch versions. The rotors are more of a "Bling Bling" item, but they are lighter than a convensional rotor and the "blade" profile helps to keep your pads cleaner than a traditional rotor.

http://www.sinisterbikes.com/test/sinrotor.jpg

So what do you guys think?


Both products look cool as hell and your description of their functionality makes total sense, but how will they come out vs. the competition out there price-wise? Any ballpark estimates? I think your Ridge Frame offers incredible bang for the buck so I'm already assuming that these items would as well. Just curious as to what they may run ballpark figure-wise.

MMcG

Both products look cool as hell and your description of their functionality makes total sense, but how will they come out vs. the competition out there price-wise? Any ballpark estimates? I think your Ridge Frame offers incredible bang for the buck so I'm already assuming that these items would as well. Just curious as to what they may run ballpark figure-wise.

MMcG


We haven't really gone into the pricing yet, we're still in testing mode and if things go well, then we'll take a hard look at pricing.

From our intial costs, they look to be pretty reasonable, but only time will tell.

Thanks for the kind words.

[Phresh]

If the bash ring is soley intended for 'sprocket grinds' (something I'm sure that's all the rage with the kids these days) then I can't really comment because I don't know what the hell a sprocket grind is...if, on the other hand, its meant to be functional in the woods I think the 'smoothness' factor could be a drawback. My ring employs mellow 'teeth' (sort of like your brake rotor!) which help it 'claw' over things. That said, I'm sure my comment only illustrates how little I know about the world of urban riding and related accessories...As far as asthetics, they appear to be of high quality and both look very cool in a gothic sort of way.

[zach11979]

Those look sweet. Have you ever considered designing some sort of deraileur gaurd so that you could run pegs and do grinds without destroying the rear deraileur. I used to ride bmx street but sold of my bikes for MTN Bikes. Grinds are the only thing I can't do on the MTN bike that I could on the bmx. I miss not being able to them at times.

We actually looked into building a new set of "street dropouts" which would incorporate a peg mount, but we decided not to go in that direction. We decided it would be better to build a dedicated street bike, rather than to try to adapt our existing bike into a street bike. So we've got a plan for a new street bike, but we haven't got a set date on when we'll be doing it. We're focusing on our new DH bike the R-9 and on building more Ridge frames right now, so maybe this winter it will happen.

[CouchingTiger]

The rotors look sweet! I wonder how Ti performs compared to stainless in terms of fatigue and warping? The whole problem with a disk rotor is it's relative vulnerability.

As I was riding the new ridge trail last weekend I was thinking someone was gonna make a fortune selling rotors after folks start riding that trail. It's only fitting that it'd be you Bill ;)

-Couch

[knucklebuste]

Jesus, the only thing I can grind is garlic in the food processor. Man I'm lame. I can wheelie though, does that count? I think I got up to 6' tonight. knuck

[zach11979]

The street frame sounds like a sweet idea.

[Rip]

nice

[squarebush]

Jesus, the only thing I can grind is garlic in the food processor. Man I'm lame. I can wheelie though, does that count? I think I got up to 6' tonight. knuck
stop dissing your self, how meny times do we have to tell you? >:(