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We’ve talked about highly anticipated products before. Hardly anything has had us biting our collective nails as much as the Truvativ HammerSchmidt. That’s the beauty of the bike industry — once we think we’ve seen the best and brightest, and that technology has taken us to the top, along comes a new model year and a slew of hot new products. Thankfully, some schools around the country, and the world for that matter, are graduating industrious and enterprising designers and engineers. HammerSchmidt is the first of its kind to hit the beaches here in the states, one of a group of at least three separate gearbox cranksets being talked about in the industry. “No way, Schlumpf has had one for sale for some time now,” you might be yelling at us, but who the hell has ever heard of Schlumpf? None of the people we ride with, nobody we know, and who knows…any U.S. distributors? Bionicon and Nicolai have the B-Boxx in the works, but what have they got…a nice drawing, an entertaining and informative website, and a few handmade prototypes? Enter the global powerhouse of SRAM. They have displayed that sometimes it pays to have vast resources to draw from in order to develop great ideas into actual production componentry.

The Truvativ HammerSchmidt has changed the way we think about front derailleurs. We don’t need ‘em. We made up our minds about three seconds into our test ride across the shop floor.

Read the rest of our review here…

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We, the members of the AFS, have a lot to be thankful for in this time of the season. We have great friends and families, most of us ate a whole bunch of Turkey and stuffing, and we ride cool bikes. Life is good. But as we begin to ride the lines in our new dirt jump park, we are also very thankful for the serendipitous occurrence of the National Trails Symposium here in Little Rock this year. Without it, and Scott from IMBA wouldn’t have made the trip, visualized our park as part of a demonstration model for the event, and hired Ben Blitch from B4 Consulting and Construction to come and help us get it on the ground.

So to all involved…thank you very much for the assistance. The AFS promises to be a good steward to our gift.