Gracia's Bike on the shore

Well today I had the pleasure of accompanying the West Coast Freeride Guides and some of our guests down to the North Shore to ride CBC, Neds etc. A perfect day today with the sky a little overcast and the temperatures a little lower than the rest of the week.

At the top of Seymour we were innundated with 'extras' and support crew for a new Robin Williams film called RV. A few of the crew came over to chat bike with us before we set off into CBC. We didnt manage to blag our way into the catering tent though unfortuneately!

The Freeride Guides were also running a heli drop for the Cannondale R&D team and were offered use of a couple of demo Gracia bikes - they weren't going to say no!

Michael was loving the bike and was feeling the Gracia inspired confidence flowing through the bike. HE said it was a superfast bike that just wanted to rip! I jumped on for a half lap and was blown away by the feel of the back end. Its a single pivot, that apparently works as a virtual pivot over the last 3rd of its travel?!? How that works I have no idea.. but thats what the Cannondale boys said.

Up front was the soon to be released Manitou Travers 7" single crown fork. It was pretty nice, a fast fork as opposed to a plush fork, but it had a sticky first inch of travel that you had to get through before it got going.

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