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K-Edge Clamp – sneak preview

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Check out the K-Edge Clamp and Ring Guard on AceCo General Manager Eric Jensen’s cross bike. K-Edge Clamp works great on Cross, Road, and even Mountain bikes.

Concerned about weight? Complete K-Edge Clamp is less than 21 grams!

 

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Why no K-Edge on Wiggins’ TT Bike?

Monday, October 5th, 2009

We’re also curious as to why Bradley wasn’t running his custom Garmin K-Edge Road chain catcher during the World Championship TT. According to sources close to the team, he has been running it all year.

Wiggins’ Worlds Podium Bid Derailed By Chain

Kristin’s ride to Gold!

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Kristin dominated the TT at the 2009 World Championships. Check out the Gold K-Edge on her P4…definitely no reservations about dropping to small ring on the climb!

Kristin Wins World TT Championships

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Congratulations to Kristin Armstrong for winning the 2009 World Time Trial Championships!

Closest competitor was a sizable 55 seconds back.

Read more about her win at VeloNews.com.

Tour of Ireland – Top Pros can drop their chains too

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

From the final stage of the Tour of Ireland:

“Just when we were about to catch him he dropped his chain,” Wilson said.

Read more on the final stage of the Tour of Ireland

Jessica Phillips – National TT Champion

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Jessica Phillips recently won the Cascade Cycling Classic Time Trial and turned around a week later and won the National Time Trial Title also in Bend, Oregon.  Jessica is running a Gold K-Edge Road chain catcher on her Fuji Time Trial machine. Congratulations Jessica!

K-Edge on display at Eurobike

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Check out the Shocker Distribution, Booth B5-301 at next week’s Eurobike.  Not only will we have a cool display showing off our K-Edge Road chain catchers, we’ll also have on display some other chain retention devices that we’re just about to release to the market.

Here’s a sneak preview of some of the products we’re introducing:

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PROMAN Hit Squad on K-Edge Road Chain Catchers

Monday, August 24th, 2009

In June, Eric Jensen and Joe Savola from AceCo Sport Group were in Minneapolis to support Kristin Armstrong on her fourth consecutive Nature Valley Grand Prix title.  While at the NVGP, Eric and Joe met with several teams on the benefits of having the K-Edge Road on their bikes.  We are proud that the PROMAN Women’s Cycling Team chose to run the K-Edges on their team bikes.  In fact K-Edge equipped bikes took first and second overall at the NVGP!

Bradley Wiggins Uses K-Edge Chain Catcher at Giro

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Check out this great coverage of the K-Edge spotted on Bradley Wiggins’ road bike at the Giro.

He’s got an interesting setup with O.symetric rings, a Dura-Ace front derailleur and (of course) a K-Edge chain catcher!

K-Edge in the Giro

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

K-Edge Chain Catchers have made an appearance in the 2009 Giro Italia!

Garmin rider Dave Zabriskie and the rest of the Garmin Team used the chain catcher during the team’s ride to 2nd place during the team time trial.

Check out the tech feature on Cyclingnews.com.