Intense Cycles Factory Tour
August 4, 2008A look inside the Intense Cycles factory by Tomo Ichikawa.
Jeff Steber checks out the welds on a new frame.
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2009 Intense M6 Prototype?
May 15, 2008
Photographed at the 2008 Sea Otter Classic
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New Intense 6″ Trail Bike
May 4, 2008
Photos taken at the Sea Otter Classic by Tomo Ichikawa
Tomo snapped this photo of the lower VPP links on a new Intense bike that is fitted with grease ports. This is exactly what these bikes need and puts them on par with the new offerings from Santa Cruz!
The bike to the right is the awesome new Intense 6″ trail bike (yet un-named). Click the thumbnail for a larger image.
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Intense M6 at Black Rock Bikes
April 1, 2008There have been some Intense M6 downhill frames that have come thru Black Rock Bicycles recently for customers and they are friggin’ beautiful! 
Click for the M6 Slide show on Flickr
The 2008 Intense M6 frames are hugely popular and are currently back ordered. If you want one for this summer call Randy at 775.972.3336 and get it on order soon.
Update 4/6/08: Check out this clip of Chris Kovarik carving it up this winter at Fontana on his M6. http://bncproductions.net/chriskovarik.html
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Intense M6 in production!
December 29, 2007Here’s a pic of the first production M6 downhill race machine.
A full size production run of these bikes is happening thru January. Black Rock Bikes has three M6’s on order and two of them are already sold! Get your order in fast if you want one for the early season races.
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Intense Dreams….
November 24, 2007
Photo by Eric Opperman.
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2008 Corsair Bikes
November 14, 2007
Black Rock Bicycles is carrying the awesome, new 2008 Corsair bikes!
CORSAIR CROWN DH: Developed to compete on the World Cup DH circuit with an adjustable headtube, 240mm rear travel, two position primary rear shock and an optional add-on secondary blow-off shock. The Crown is designed to be fully adjustable and tune-able for any DH race course.
Interbike 4: Pivot Bikes
October 4, 2007Wow!!! Two great innovators in the industry, Chris Cocalis (founder of Titus) and Dave Weagal (inventor of the DW Link), collaborate on the awesome, new Pivot Bikes.
The DW Link Pivot Mach 5.
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Intense M3 Gunner
October 3, 2007
Usually a helmet is painted to match the bike. In this case Randy Robison’s Intense M3 was painted to match the new Troy Lee Designs “Gunner” SE helmet.
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Intense M6 World’s Fastest Bike
September 20, 2007World record shattered! Speed biking on snow at 210 km/h.
Austria’s Markus Stoeckl, 33, set a new world record at the weekend for series mountain bikes on a renovated high-speed La Parva run in the Chile’s Alps when he hit a speed of 210.4 km/h (130.7 mph). He shattered an eight-year-old record by an incredible 23 km/h (14 mph).
Stable at speed - the Intense M6!
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Transition Bikes New Siren Girls Freeride Bike
August 23, 2007Finally - a women’s specific freeride bike.
New Siren Prototype
From TBC: “We are now riding the new girls freeride bike called the Siren. The bike is a 6″ travel freeride frame designed for women. We took input from over 30 female riders to design a bike specifically for them. The frame has ultra low standover. We have girls that are 5′0″ and still have great standover on the frame and love it. The frame also is very light for girls to throw around with a lower center of gravity and short stays so the ladies can pull the front end up easily. Production bikes should be available Dec/Jan.”
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The world’s fastest bicycle
August 16, 2007Battle Mountain, Nevada
The fastest human powered bike goes 81 mph!
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Karpiel DH bikes - keeping the flame alive.
July 19, 2007Karpiel bikes have achieved a legendary status amoung downhill riders. Just go to Northstar any weekend and you’ll see many riders on Karpiel dh bikes bomb’n the mountain. Jan Karpiel moved back to Poland several years ago so parts have been hard to come by, but one man is keeping the flame alive in the USA and the Karpiel bikes are riding better than ever.
Photo of Mike Bartlett of San Jose machining parts in the heyday of Karpiel production. Mike is a machinest who did a lot of work for Jan Karpiel back when Jan was working out of Reno, Nevada. Mike currently produces replacement parts for Karpiel dh bikes.
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Cristy’s New Karpiel Armagedon
July 15, 2007Didn’t think you could get a new Karpiel Armagedon? Well dhReno rider Cristy Gott is rocking a brand new one in Reno!
Cristy loves her new Army!
