If you haven’t read this somewhere else already, Dorel which owns Pacific Cycle (GT, Mongoose, Schwinn and Cannondale) has just purchased Iron Horse for the tiny sum of USD$5.2 million. This is definitely a good thing as the other main bidder was Iron Horse founder Cliff Weidberg’s son Randall Scott, who some speculate is the main reason Iron Horse filed for bankruptcy in the first place. Only question locally is will Auckland based distributor W H Worrralls pick up yet another bike brand or will Aussie based Gemini (Mongoose) add it to their stable. Full story here.
VIDEO | How Santa Cruz Designs Full Suspension Bikes
Janet Kan November 21, 2022
Kiran MacKinnon is a human dyno. When Santa Cruz Bicycles needs to test, experiment and validate suspension then Kiran is the one of the main people we call on to do that work. Not only is he an extremely talented bike rider and incredibly knowledgeable about suspension, but he can actually interpret and translate what he’s feeling in a way that he can communicate to the rest of the engineering team. This enables them to cross-reference the data they’ve collected with real life, on-trail experience to build better bikes and provide the right setup for our riders. We’re constantly refining our VPP™ suspension as well as the damping tunes shocks we spec on our bikes in order to make sure our bikes ride really, really good.
