Hobart to Helsinki........

Aireal is proud to support the up and coming 20,000km cycling adventure of Nick McIntosh. Nick, who lives in Hobart, Tasmania, will be setting off in ten days time to cycle to Helsinki, Russia and along the way will collect local people's stories from at least 15 of the most remote and least known countries in the world. What a tremendous effort that will be. We are really looking forward to reading Nick's stories and wish him a safe and exciting adventure.

To keep track of Nick's expedition please check in at www.storytransect.net

New colour........

Did you guess? Did you have any idea? Well, here is a little peek - our new colour - let's christen her........."Violet".
She is a beauty - so sleek, so out there, so superb. The Violet anodised finish will make your Aireal Headset stand out from the rest. Orders are being taken now........order online or contact your local bike shops within Australia and New Zealand or Topshelf Components in the UK. See our website for more details.

Mmmmmm......red all over!

Look what I have been busy doing - anodising lots of hubs and headsets ready for export. Don't you just love our red? - it is such a deep colour. And a surprise is in store - a new colour will venture onto this blog next week for Aireal components - any guesses to what it will be??? Keep posted.

Brilliant spectator sport.......

The 2nd State Round of NSW Downhill has been won and run at Lidsdale - what a super way to see downhill racing. The set up of the dual tracks through the pine forest allowed oodles of people in to watch the racing up close - and you didn't need to be a mountain goat to get to the top or bottom of the track. Here are a few piccies of some riders on their runs on Sunday morning. Well done to CTMBC again for putting on such a great show.

Tandem hubs

Well our tandem hubs are in the cnc machines as I write this - material is being machined to absolute precise measurements to create a beautiful hub with a very specific purpose. Keep posted - we will have a pic soon.

This weekend sees the 2nd NSW State Round of the Downhill series being run just down the road at Lithgow - not on the State Mine Track though - it's demise has been sealed officially now. So Flynny - the hard working CTMBC presidente has organised dual DH tracks at the Lidsdale site for this huge event - as he puts it "Two short trails will be used, both starting and finishing in the same place, completely different but within seconds of each other. Riders get a timed run down each track then times are added together to give you a total." That should make things very interesting!!!! We will fly the Aireal banner there tomorrow and take some pics.

Aireal around Australia and further.........

Well, our Aireal components manage to find their way to many different parts of Australia - we have included the picture above that was supplied recently by Tim from Velosmith in Tassie who took his bike and a friend touring. Part of that trip was on the Birdsville Track - and all up they travelled a staggering 2000km. The Aireal headset performed beautifully and Tim's words were as follows -

"The bike is one of my Velosmith "Jotas" on the Birdsville Track, a desert trip I know but a little rain turns the place into a mud bath. I had a look inside the headset at the end of the trip (2000km) which was of course very dusty too and it was as clean as new."

You can see Tim's beautiful bikes here - www.velosmith.com.au

Also, at the top of the page you will see that Aireal components can be found in Singapore - here is Mohamad Adenan competing in a recent race at Kent Ridge Park in Singapore - it is definitely a little greener and quite a contrasting environment to the Birdsville Track! Mohamad is riding on an Aireal XC wheelset that he built up himself with orange 32 hole hubs and an orange EV2 Headset.

New Engraving on our EV2.......

We really like our EV2 Headsets but realised that they just don't stand out enough and shout "I am here!!! Look at me!!" on our bikes and yours.
So... we tweaked the engraving design and came up with a bit more of a wrap around style. Hope you like it. It is here to stay.