Stories by Matt Pacocha

• Posted: Fri, Apr 18th
  New Bontrager mountain bike shoes at Sea Otter
  Trek development rider Travis Brown was at the Trek team truck at the Sea Otter Classic sporting a never-before-seen set of white and red Bontrager mountain bike shoes. The shoes have a large RXL logo on the middle strap that threw many for a loop. "People keep asking me ...
• Posted: Fri, Apr 18th
  A Swiss group, along with some company managers, buy Pedro's USA back from Swix
  A Swiss investment group, along with some of the company's managers, is buying Pedro's USA back from Swix Sport USA, the ski company that has owned Pedro's for the last decade. Sport adventures International S.A., based in Lausanne, Switzerland, teamed with managers to buy ...
• Posted: Fri, Apr 18th
  The Sea Otter Tech Report, day 1
  With the world’s best racers descending upon Houffalize, Belgium, for the World Cup opener, the Sea Otter Classic needed to supplement this year’s world class downhill races with something extra to keep the event growing. For the Sea Otter, now in its 18th year, the ...
• Posted: Mon, Apr 14th
  Fox's race program feeds its development cycle.
  Fox doesn’t have a fancy name for its somewhat sheltered race product program. It’s simply called the Fox Race Development Program, and it does just that. It takes Fox’s current products and pushes them to limits that can only be achieved by the best riders in the world, ...
• Posted: Fri, Apr 11th
  Roubaix Tech: Silence-Lotto chooses cyclocross frames
  With weather reports calling for chances of precipitation ranging from 20- to 61-percent for Sunday’s race, Silence-Lotto isn’t taking any chances. The team’s eight Roubaix riders prerode with purpose-built X-Fire carbon cyclocross bikes on the course Thursday. The ...
• Posted: Thu, Apr 10th
  Bike Tech: Tubular tires, a four-part video tutorial
  In this four-part video tutorial, VeloNews Tech Editor Matt Pacocha walks us through the procedures involved in properly gluing tubular tires. Part 1: Tools, preparation & removing the old tire
• Posted: Thu, Apr 10th
  You can own wheels like Cipo, Pippo and Zabel
  You’re saying there’s a chance? Well, when there was, Mario was ready to turn some heads. Carbon Sports, the manufacturer of Lightweight wheels, was commissioned to build Rock Racing's Mario Cipollini something special for Milan-San Remo, but when Cipo and Rock Racing ...
• Posted: Sat, Mar 29th
  Adam Craig's Beijing rig
  The Beijing Olympic mountain bike course is punctuated by short, steep, smooth climbs that favor a powerful rider like Giant’s Adam Craig. The descents on the Chinese course, too, are smooth. It’s the sort of terrain that doesn’t offer advantage to Craig’s Anthem ...
• Posted: Wed, Mar 26th
  Rapha peddles its 2008 collection
  Rapha’s pricy, chic line of retro-modern cycling clothing is built from a mix of technical and natural fibers including Merino wool, wool hybrids and synthetic fabrics by Swiss Schoeller. They’re then tested by an outfit of London bicycle messengers, the Rapha Continental ...
• Posted: Fri, Mar 21st
  Campy offering 600 Record Red levers to general public
  Revising its original plan to reserve its Record Red Ergopower shifters for professionals, Campagnolo announced Thursday that it will offer a limited run of the special heavy-action shifters to the public. The pro Ergo levers incorporate stronger springs for a more tactile ...
• Posted: Fri, Mar 21st
  Shimano's OTHER new Dura-Ace?
  Shimano’s electric Dura-Ace is becoming more and more common in the ProTour peloton. Gerolsteiner rider Stefan Schumacher scored a podium placing on it at last year’s world championships. For three years now an electric prototype ...
• Posted: Wed, Mar 12th
  Tubeless road tire system gets a classics win at Het Volk.
  After racing the final 22 kilometers alone, off the front, Francaise des Jeux rider Philippe Gilbert crossed the finish of Omloop Het Volk last week in victory. It was the second Het Volk win for the Belgian; his first came in 2006. The 2008 win was special to two of his ...