Spoke Magazine

Rad's World

Posted by Brett Kennedy on Wednesday October 13 2010


Defending World Champ and SPOKE cohort “Rad” Ross Schnell sent us this sneak peak of his new weapon for the SSWC in Vegas next weekend.  It’s a custom built Trek Top Fuel SS, with one-off paint job and a top tube pad harking back to Ross’ days as a BMX grom. And check out that SS Cobalt in the background. Ross hinted that the Trek engineers were working on carbon horizontal dropouts, so we’ll see if they came to fruition or not soon.

And with the fastest lap at last weekend’s 24 Hours of Moab, it looks like ‘Rad’ is in the sort of form to add to his tattoo collection (of one).  He assured us that he is bringing his “drinking legs” too, and we already know how lethal they are!

  • http://www.bike29.com George

    A picture of the rear axle would be sweet. I wonder what type of tensioner he’s using

    • http://www.calebsmith.co.nz Caleb

      added now… looks like a yess tensioner. same as me!!!

  • http://www.quietchaos.co.nz Lester

    so legit! Oakley grips too…. Damn, possibly the raddest MTB custom job ever?

  • kedan

    it would have looked better in Lakers colours -going for the repeat and all.

  • Jono

    gotta mount my yess this weekend and make sure it all works. The friday night conversion is going to be enough of a mission without finding I’ve left a part at home…