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New Site
Well, it's finally here. The new Madera Website. Get excited. There's new pictures of our riders, and our products. There's a brand new interview with Dave McDermott on his team page.
The first prototypes of a new Madera stem are coming off the cnc machine, those should be heading out to team riders shortly, and they'll be unleashed to the public at Interbike in September. Nice. They weigh about as much as a New York deli ham sandwich, too. So, heavy for a sandwich, but light for a BMX stem. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense to me, either.
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Josh Eilken webvid
originally posted 7.23.08
Wednesday July 23
Tony Malouf sent over this video of Josh Eilken this morning. It's funny how
simple spots near your house can make for some heated sessions.
Enjoy.
Josh Eilken and Alberto Solorio from Miles Rogoish on Vimeo.
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Testing Automatic Lightbox
Lightbox Test
This is simply a test to see if lightbox will work automatically on photos added to this entry.
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Summertime
OK, a little news.
I don't even have the prototypes yet, but madera/madera Profile hubs are in the pipeline and should be on team rider's bikes before a whole lot longer.
I've put together a spline drive prototype bike. The spline drive system eliminates the sprocket bolt, which has proven to be the weak link with running Profile cranks with madera Gear bikes. So I'll be playing around with that, and as soon as I have some 165mm versions, Tom and Burd will be playing around with them too. For now, if you're running Profile cranks on your madera bike and you're having issues with the sprocket bolt, email me (christian at profileracing dot com) and I'll send out a solution we worked up here. It's a set screw and a lock-nut that replaces the sprocket bolt. You loctite the crap out of the set screw, and then torque down the lock nut. It's not perfect, but it's better than riding around tightening up your sprocket bolt every few hours.
We'll have a bad ass FBM/Profile/Artist to be named later collabo bike in the Profile booth at Interbike this year. FBM is making 5 framesets for it, and we're supplying hubs, it's going to be pretty damn sweet.
