MTBShreD - The Mountain Bike TrailHead

Aaron Gwin is on a new bike and team this year.  Making the change from shredding his Yeti 303DH to Trek Session 88, riding for Trek World Racing.  Check the bike setup and commentary by Gwin and team mechanic David Monkey Vasquez.

The Stringbike has two identical but oppositely directed driving units at either side of the frame. The rotation of the pedals forces a swinging arm to swing forward and backward around its shaft. The forward segment of this motion pulls a rope wound around a drum on the rear shaft that makes the wheel to rotate. As the two sides move in mirror symmetry, there is always one arm that moves forward, thus the rear wheel is always driven. In this way the task of actual driving is taken unnoticeably from the right to the left side and vice versa. The video animation demonstrates how this system functions.

Zerode's full downhill specific frame has 9.25" of travel that you have to ride to believe, a fully internal drive system that is smoother shifting than a conventional drive train with "Zero" maintenance. All of this combined with Zerode's unique pedaling geometry keeps the power to the ground with out any pedal feed back or bob, that's right NO PEDAL BOB.

Earlier this year, BlackCat Cycles and Truvativ collaborated on a project with the simple goal of showcasing the art of form and purposeful function a handmade frame embodies. It should be built well and well used. So Todd and Jen from Blackcat designed a dream mountain bike road trip with the North American Handmade Bike show in Austin as the finish line. Video : Brian Vernor

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