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.

Superb coffee.....

The morning after the race at Wingello we enjoyed a superb coffee at "Ye Olde Bicycle Shop & Cafe" in Bundanoon. They have an array of cycling memorabilia on the walls which makes interesting reading and a great atmosphere.

Here we are......

Well, this little blog has been sitting around hidden for a while - ruminating as such, trying hard to decide how to escape, launch itself, and become part of the bigger picture at Aireal Australia's website. This little sibling couldn't decide what it wanted to be.... now we know! This little blog will be our way of keeping you up to date with our new products, ideas, supporters, sponsored riders, distributors, racing results, latest best coffee experience, etc. etc.! Though whose know us well would have expected that last bit about "coffee" - they know we like our coffee about as much as our bikes.

So to the latest at Aireal - did I mention that we are 100% Australian owned and our components are 100% Australian made. Hey, we gotta import the raw materials - sorry. Last week saw Mick racing solo at the lastest 8hr event put on by Bright Orange Events. This was held at Wingello - a beautiful little spot just right for camping and run beautifully by the organisers and Southern Highlands Cycle Club. We had a great time and Mick successfully completed 7 laps in his first solo event - not a bad effort I thought - on Aireal XC hubs and EV2 Headset of course. Great effort also by a few other Central Tablelands Mountain Bike Club members.