As we shared earlier this week, Tim and Mark were in Taiwan overseeing production of our new Chili Con Crosso. Tim is on his way to Europe now and Mark is hand carrying this production frame back home. This images should give you just a bit more info about the details and features of this new frameset.
Look for the full product launch with pricing, specs, & details of the new Chili soon. We do want folks to know we will be selling the new Chili Con Crosso both as a frameset and as a complete bike. We like options and we hope you do too.
We've sponsored the Salsa Two-Four In Support Of MORC for the last 3 years. This year's event has really taken a step forward to becoming the bike, art, and music festival that we'd hoped it would eventually become. Massive props to Amanda from MORC for her work on this event. MORC runs it. Salsa sponsors it.
Here is some of what is going on: Friday Night DH Race, 24-Hour Racing, 8-Hour Racing, Bike Games With Salsa, Homemade Salsa Competition & Tasting, Artists Displaying & Selling Bike-Related Art, Live Music, Food, Bonfires, Camping...
And here is the kicker...aside from the racing, this is a FREE event! C'mon out and take part even if you aren't racing! For more info visit Salsa Two-Four
Raneman and I are in Taiwan right now, working hard to bring you some new product. We are here checking samples, doing QC checks, and supervising production of the new 2011 Chili Con Crosso, as well as a few other new suprises that are yet to come.
Our Chili Con Crosso adventure continued on Friday morning, when we commuted through the streets of Taichung out to Nantou to pick up a pre-production sample of the new Chili Con Crosso, and then carried it to our assembly factory for a complete bike build and check.
Mark, Leeche, Joe Y and myself started the 25k ride earlier in the morning to avoid the sweltering mid 90-degree heat of later in the day. We were treated to something I've rarely seen in Taiwan: a gorgeous sunny, blue sky day.
The updated Chili Con Crosso has exceeded our best wishes for reduced weight and increased front end stiffness over the previous model, and it looks pretty hot to boot, even without paint. Here's a shot of Mark on the unpainted sample.
Then, it was back to the frame factory to do a few more checks on the finer details of the frame
It was a tiring, exciting day, and it was well over 95 degrees outside so we decided to call it a day and head back to take a rest. However, with some luck we were invited to join a friend's cycling club up at Sun Moon Lake for a weekend ride. Sun Moon Lake is a very popular tourist destination up in the mountains from Taichung. It has the feel of a Chinese brush painting. We were camping, so what better time to shoot a few photos of the sunset?
And Mark found a great spot for some Chili testing...
Mark and I will be spending this week taking these Chili Con Crosso samples and moving them through further testing, paint and decals. By week's end we will give you a 'real' presentation of the 2011 bike, complete with colors and graphics. We will also be working on creating some new sneak peaks on a few other models that are up and coming.
------------------ UPCOMING EVENT: NORTH CENTRAL CYCLERY, DEKALB, ILLINOIS ---------------------
On Wednesday August 18th Salsa will present a preview of some never-before-seen products at an event hosted by North Central Cyclery in Dekalb, IL. Salsa sales manager, David Gabrys will be present with the Mukluk, El Mariachi Ti, La Cruz Ti, the new steel El Mariachi and the background behind our Adventure By Bike direction. He will also be sharing some cool stuff that can only be seen by attendees of the event, so it will be worth your while to make the visit and see what’s happening for 2011.
The event begins at 7pm and will be followed by a campfire (and hopefully S'mores). There will be beer too! RSVP at rideaway@northcentralcyclery.com. North Central Cyclery, 534 E. Lincoln Hwy, Dekalb, IL (815) 758-2403.
Today we start with a little sneak peek. This one is a bit more revealing than previous sneek peaks yet only represents a small part of the end product. This product will be on display at Eurobike. Keen eyes may see one or more of the Salsa crew out and about rambling around with this product before that.
We also thought we'd also take this time to chat a bit about our Salsa racks we showed as prototypes back in late February and wrote about here back in March.
The good news is both racks shown above on the Vaya are officially moving to production. Here are the details. At the moment, we estimate they will be here sometime in November. Yes, that is an estimate and this is disappointing as we were expecting to be selling them already. Here are the details.
Wanderlust Rack (rear)
- Light and durable tubular aluminum alloy
- Black or Silver
- Extra long deck. It's slighly cupped to assist in holding bags, sleeping pads or whatever you strap to the top deck.
- Extra long struts for mounting, even to small frames and small rear triangles
- Universal mounting system allowing movement of struts in any direction
- Two threaded barrels for light and reflector mounting
- $100 MSRPWanderlust Rack (rear)
Down Under (front low rider)
- Light and durable tubular aluminum alloy
- Black or Silver
- No wheel hoop so they work with fat 29" wheels or even 4" Surly Endomorphs
- Mounts to mid blade eyelets and fork/drop out eyelet. Note: Requires mid blade eyelets on both the inside & outside of fork blade
- Retains full use of Fargo fork leg mounted water bottle positions
- Has a threaded boss on the top of the hoop to attach the strut from our Minimalist front rack, making a really functional and strong front rack system
- Designed to work well with disc brakes, meaning they mount easily on bikes with disc brakes and are forward positioned to allow full access to the front brake
- MSRP $70
We also showed this Fargo with very cool, Light weight, and functional mini racks. The only update we have here is that we have officially named them the Minimalist rack. These products are still in testing. We will post and update once they pass the tests.
So...There you go. Sneak Peak Friday and new Salsa Rack update.
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