Spoke Magazine » cycletech

COOL KIDS WEAR TSG LIDS

Lester Perry — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:46:27 +0000

TSG safety gear is relatively new to New Zealand shores but it’s been a major player internationally for a while now. Just look at the head of your favourite dirtjumper and there’s a good chance they’ll have a TSG atop their mop. TSG have just launched a sweet line of kids ‘skate styled’ helmets. They look like an adult helmet, only smaller, so little Johnny (or Tracey) can now have a helmet just like Dad’s (or Mum’s).

NIPPER
The world’s first kids helmet with perfect fit and appealing skate and dirt halfshell styling

TSG’s new Nipper is the first in-mold half-shell helmet for little children. It offers perfect fit and ultimate protection even at the sides of a child’s super sensitive head. The Nipper is the latest development of Swiss helmet expert TSG. After several years ofresearch and development, including both the intense analysis of children’s head shapes aswell as the adaptation of casting molds to their specific anatomic features, TSG proudly presents a new kids helmet for spring 2011.

Flyweight design for sensible children’s heads
The Nipper is designed using an in-mold manufacturing process: a solid polycarbonate outer shell is fused with a shock-absorbing EPS inner shell. Thanks to this efficient manufacturing process, the helmet only weighs 195 g without sacrificing protection performance.

Safe and low fit
The Nipper is made for children’s head sizes from 48 to 51 and can be used from the point of when children start to walk. It is the world’s first kids helmet of this size which truly fits without the need of an additional adjustment wheel at the back. Traditional kids helmets have to be re-adjusted every time, which increases the risk of adjustment failures and a negative influence on the safety aspects due to additional parts and pieces on the head. With a set of 4 inner pads, the Nipper is perfectly adjustable to the individual head size of the child. The Tuned Fit System with 2 size sets allows for a convenient size adjustment as children get older and grow.

TSG has deliberately chosen the successful half-shell design for the Nipper model. Besides an appealing look and appearance, a half-shell helmet offers enhanced protection along the sides of the head due to its low fit. At the same time, it perfectly covers the forehead and back of the head. While other manufacturers of kids helmets commonly include a front shield, TSG’s Nipper comes without it. A front shield blocks children’s sight and thus, involves a higher safety risk.

Certified performance
The Nipper fits and offers superior safety packed in a high-level miniature size helmet. The helmet fulfils the EN 1078 safety standards of the European Committee for Standardization as well as the directives U.S. CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) for bike
helmets.

The Nipper is available from spring 2011. Among the color/design options are gloss black
and flat black as well as the Panda and Spooky Castle graphic designs.

For more info check out Cycletech’s website.

CYCLETECH PICKS UP ELLSWORTH DISTRIBUTION

Caleb Smith — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:25:43 +0000

New Zealand distributor Cycletech (Stans, Louis Garneau, TSG, POW gloves) have picked up the agency for legendary US company Ellsworth. It’s early days so I’m not sure when we will be seeing them land in bike shops but it’s a good move. For the last few years Ellsworths have been as rare as hens’ teeth but with Cycletech’s strong dealer network this will definitely change. Cycletech are no strangers to distributing bikes; they handled Giant’s distribution for well over 15 years. We’ll bring you more on availability soon.

POW POW

Caleb Smith — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:23:57 +0000

Pow gloves are here (again). This time though the distribution of the MTB side of the line is being handled by an actual bicycle company, Cycletech to be exact, and they have just received their first shipment of gloves which should be in stores by the time you read this. If you can’t find them you could always e-mail Cycletech to find your nearest shop. They are carrying a solid chunk of the line which you can check out here including the XXX-Rated Shocker (two pink fingers one brown; use your imagination), the Skinny (above left) and Slick (above right).

BRYCE WENT TO INTERBIKE AND ALL I GOT WAS…

Caleb Smith — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:54:20 +0000

Socks! Bryce from Cycletech got me socks, but cool socks. A pair of the Sock Guy Missy Giove tribute socks and the Twitter tribute socks… well not so much a tribute if you check out what’s underneath the foot.

It’s not new to Cycletech but Ultimate Support stands have re-branded to Feedback stands and this bad boy (the Pro Elite) is their flagship, it’s super light and stable and it features a pretty funky clamp.

Lift your bike in with one hand, whack the end and your bike is in the stand. You can then fine tune the tightness. Whack the red button to release. Simple.

And then there is the tool tray (which should everyone else’s stands) which comes complete with wash bath (with plug), cup holder and a whole bunch of holes for allen keys and screw drivers. We will be putting this thing through its paces for a test in the next issue of Spoke.

And finally these revolutionary light weight ESI silicon grips. I’ll be putting a green set of these on my bike tomorrow (as will each of Spoke’s review team) but until then all I can do is tell you they weigh pretty much nothing and are probably the simplest grips I’ve ever seen. But they are popping up more and more on elite level riders’ rigs.

Thanks for the socks Bryce.