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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The Feedback Sports Velo Hinge wall-mounted storage hook allows your bikes to pivot away from the wall, so that you can store bikes in your house without them hanging into the room. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The Velo Hinge can accomodate deep carbon rims, as well as mountain bike tires. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
A second piece keeps the rear wheel from moving, so that several bikes can be stacked up on a wall like a photo album, without banging into one another. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Verve cycling is a entering the growing powermeter market with its Infocrank. The Infocrank uses a proprietary bottom bracket from Praxis Works. The whole system, plus an O-Synce Navi2coach head unit, is available for pre-order at a price of $1,750. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The Infocrank crank arms each have a strain gauge integrated into the arms, which Verve does in hopes of acheiving more accurate power data. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The Infocrank must be used with the Praxis Works bottom bracket, which has external cups to accept the Infocrank's cadence monitors, like you see here. We hope to see an update from Verve soon, with a cleaner cadence tracking system. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
It seems every other month there's another power meter on the market. Power2Max is making two different spider-based power meters, the Type-S (left) and the Classic. The Type-S is being used by the Movistar team this year, thus the blue and green livery. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
A Power2max spider and a compatible crank is all that's needed to set up the power meter. The Type-S retails at $1,080 on the Power2max website. Thanks to being located in Canada, there is no sales tax for U.S. buyers. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The Power2max system is available in road, track, and mountain bike versions. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Birzman makes some beautiful pumps and tools, none more so than these two chain tools. The wood-handled Lighter-er Chain Rivet Extractor would be great in a tool roll or even in a mountain bike pack. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The Troy Lee Design's Booth is always full of colorful mountain bike clothing. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The new Ace Jersey from Troy Lee Designs is more tightly tailored than what the company is known for offering and is intended for more cross-country riding. The Ace Jersey sports three rear pockets, as well as a zippered pocket for storing credit cards or other small items. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
On the more subdued end of the clothing spectrum, Panache Cyclewear launched its new Ride Short. The Ride Short joins Panache's Move short in its baggy shorts line-up. The Ride short sports plenty of stretchy fabric, a zippered fly, and is intended for mountain biking. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The SmartFit Stretch fabric used around the waist is intended to move with the body. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Panache is adding a black colorway to its popular Move Short lineup. The Move Shorts have a tight-fitting, long-cut design. Great for on and off the bike. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Nothern California-based Kitsbow launched a new summer clothing line at the Subaru Sea Otter Classic. The new wind jacket and vest will be available in May. With price tags of $225 for the jacket and $175 for the vest, the Kitsbow line is priced comparably to premier road brands like Rapha and Panache, but is most likely to compete with the Giro New Road line. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The $240 Kitsbow Ventilated Adjuster Short (right) is $40 less expensive than the original Adjuster Short and weighs less. The $175 Ventilated Base Short (left) uses a CyTech chamois and is, again, a lighter-weight option than what is in the current Kitsbow line. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The Kitsbow All-Mountain Ventilated Jersey, with a price tag of $175, is pricey for a three quarter zip top. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The four-pocket layout on the All Mountain Ventilated jersey is unique, with all of the pockets designed to be accessed while wearing a hydration pack. It even has pockets on the side panel of the jersey, which is unusual, but just might work for mountain biking. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Kitsbow also announced its new $65 Base Layer. The lightweight base layer looks to be well made, as is everything from Kitsbow, but is still reasonably priced. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Canadian-based Devinci Cycles had one of Steve Smith's Wilson Carbon downhill bikes. Smith, who is currently out of racing due to an injured ankle, would have been racing this bike in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa the weekend of Sea Otter. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Smith tries to keep his drivetrain as quiet as possible so that he can better hear his tires moving across the dirt, giving him a better idea of how much traction he's getting. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Devninci also had this 27.5-wheeled frameset, labeled as simply "1-OFF." Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The Devinici frameset was made for Smith to race at the Pietermaritzburg World Cup, as it's a tamer course with much more pedaling. This frame sported just 165mm of rear suspension travel, while still sporting some slack geometry. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Devinci is owned by the same company as Biknd travel cases, which was showing off its new $450 Jetpack case. The new Jetpack case wieghs in at 17-pounds and can carry everything from a downhill bike to a road bike with an integrated seat mast. Unlike Biknd's Helium case, the Jetpack does not use inflatable padding; instead, it uses foam sides that can still be compressed for easier storage. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The 2015 Lombard Elite is Marin's stab at the adventure bike category, with an affordable price point at $1,500, tubeless-ready rims, a wide range of gear combinatinos, and of course, disc brakes. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The Lombard uses a mountain bike SRAM X7 rear derailleur to shift across the 11-36 cassette, paired to a compact 50-34 chainring combination. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
The new 2015 Marin Rift Zone XL9 sports 120mm of travel, Marin 29er carbon rims, and a SRAM XX1 drivetrain. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Tech scenes from the 2014 Sea Otter Classic, Round 4
Feedback Sports launched its new iOS application at Sea Otter. The Feedback Sports Bicycle Maintenance Tracking app — that's a mouthful — lets you keep track of every adjustment or part-swap you've done on your different bikes. Can't remember the last time you changed the Stan's sealant in your Santa Cruz? Check the work log for your Santa Cruz in the Feedback Sports app. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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