Spares kits are already, or will soon be, avaliable globally from dealers and distributors for all Banshee frames.
To see what kits there are check out the Freeborn website, where Jim has put up a complete list.
Showing posts with label Scirocco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scirocco. Show all posts
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Bring back the Scirocco??
So I keep getting emails like this.
As you know we really listen to you guys and as much as we can we like to make decisions based on what you really want us to do. For me this is as much your bike company as it is ours, so with that read on and let us know what you think
Hi guys!
I think you guys are crazy discontinuing the most awesome HT frame on the market!! :-O Now I'm doomed to sit here wasting precious to-be-bike-riding-time writing enquiries all over the world (from Malaysia to USA) trying to find a Banshee Scirocco in size L, but nothing. @Ebay worldwide:
nothing! Who is going to sell such a frame if once owned!?!
I must admit that I'm really in love with the sexy "team black/white" (I get tears in my eyes any time I look at its picture in the blog..) but given the desperate situation I would be happy to find any frame at all.
And this is kind of sad because I know a Scirocco would fell like a fish in the water having some hard rides e.g. around the "Schwarzwaldklinik"
(Black Forest Clinic) just around the corner.
My last resource is the source. So have you guys any idea of what else I could try? IOW who do I need to bribe? Yes, I'm really desperate! :)
Best regards from Stuttgart, Germany
Raphael van Uffelen
P.D. my love:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPqPUFrWkapilcjpgsJVcbesTvj55Jyr_NXG5iiny1v3tmeBmEzz1jrI9MhUfpq_lXSX6AkR3TVeGZvABc-S0dFSmAQmoO8gRJj8DTNZjePSMiN1xGbMDLHF7-OFj5ZVCLT1T58ilaTyA/s1600-h/DSC09020.JPG
So you can email us or just post in the comments but is this a bike that needs to come back?
As you know we really listen to you guys and as much as we can we like to make decisions based on what you really want us to do. For me this is as much your bike company as it is ours, so with that read on and let us know what you think
Hi guys!
I think you guys are crazy discontinuing the most awesome HT frame on the market!! :-O Now I'm doomed to sit here wasting precious to-be-bike-riding-time writing enquiries all over the world (from Malaysia to USA) trying to find a Banshee Scirocco in size L, but nothing. @Ebay worldwide:
nothing! Who is going to sell such a frame if once owned!?!
I must admit that I'm really in love with the sexy "team black/white" (I get tears in my eyes any time I look at its picture in the blog..) but given the desperate situation I would be happy to find any frame at all.
And this is kind of sad because I know a Scirocco would fell like a fish in the water having some hard rides e.g. around the "Schwarzwaldklinik"
(Black Forest Clinic) just around the corner.
My last resource is the source. So have you guys any idea of what else I could try? IOW who do I need to bribe? Yes, I'm really desperate! :)
Best regards from Stuttgart, Germany
Raphael van Uffelen
P.D. my love:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPqPUFrWkapilcjpgsJVcbesTvj55Jyr_NXG5iiny1v3tmeBmEzz1jrI9MhUfpq_lXSX6AkR3TVeGZvABc-S0dFSmAQmoO8gRJj8DTNZjePSMiN1xGbMDLHF7-OFj5ZVCLT1T58ilaTyA/s1600-h/DSC09020.JPG
So you can email us or just post in the comments but is this a bike that needs to come back?
Monday, June 16, 2008
Racing in Taiwan
I finally got some time to post up what the heck i've been
up to in Taiwan over these past couple of months.
Its been a lot of work-work-work but I still get out on the weekends and luckily have been able to plug into the local mtb scene which is totally awesome.
Since i like to share... if you're an industry type that gets over here regularily and wants to partake in all the Taiwan has to offer I suggest you contact Victor Major on his new site www.cycletaiwan.com . They have a fresh forum and we're all trying to get the word out that you DONT need to be holed up in a hotel room, and that there are some great places to ride and a lot going on so contact him or hell even email me. There are some great rides both on road and off both DH and XC.
So anyway let me share my first installment.
Big thanks to Giant Bicycles over here for sponsoring a mtb series. It was kinda fluke that I found out about actually. I found out a local, Alan who runs a local bike dealership, was buying a red wildcard and was going to be racing it, which started the little hamster in my head to get on his wheel and try to figure out what was this all about. After much haranging of ppl who can read chinese we found there was a race series and I went about signing up.
It was me and Ryan from Astrix bikes that ended up racing and the weekend before Keith and all of us went to practice the course... see tearing
up taiwan.
The day of the race we decided to head down early even though we weren't on deck until around 2 o clock. Leaving at 9am we arrived 2.5 hours later in Daija, which is just north of Taichung, and grabbed an early lunch at McRaunchies where Ryan realized he lost his wallet. No biggie I got cash and can spot him, but he was still a little miffed and searching through the van realized he not only forgot his wallet but all his pads too. GAWD ryan you tool!!!
So do we drive back?? yep. So in the end I didn't get to even see the actual course and arrived just in time to 5min later get my start... it was a total rush.
The course was a freaking mudfest of epic proportions, it was not only flat but super slow and my choice of a hardtail was a good one. It was the kind of course that would see Jeff Kabush put the boots to the likes of Sam Hill considering the XC guys rode the same course in their XC loop - why are we having to wear all this gear again??
Anyway it was just great to get out, and even though it pissed down rain, the course was slow, and I only got 4th place due to a well timed stick in spokes that I had to spend time yanking out, the race had tons of people come out and watch, it was super well organized [except for No Shuttling so you had to push your bike back to the top] and its just damn good to ride your bike for any reason at all.
I made this killer mud fender out of a apple juice bottle. My contemporaries from Whistler will know what this is all about... and how well it actually works.
Thanks to William for coming out and taking pics. Some how he missed my run tho so I don't have any of me [guess i was just going too fast hehehe] but he did capture the "I forgot my Sh*t" culprit as he busts around a tree.
Anyway thats it for now.
I'll have some more coming up in the next few days of dragon boat racing, another DH race that MORE then made up for ease of this course, and there is a jump jam happening next week which I'll be going to before i leave for Canadaland the following day.
up to in Taiwan over these past couple of months.Its been a lot of work-work-work but I still get out on the weekends and luckily have been able to plug into the local mtb scene which is totally awesome.
Since i like to share... if you're an industry type that gets over here regularily and wants to partake in all the Taiwan has to offer I suggest you contact Victor Major on his new site www.cycletaiwan.com . They have a fresh forum and we're all trying to get the word out that you DONT need to be holed up in a hotel room, and that there are some great places to ride and a lot going on so contact him or hell even email me. There are some great rides both on road and off both DH and XC.
So anyway let me share my first installment.
Big thanks to Giant Bicycles over here for sponsoring a mtb series. It was kinda fluke that I found out about actually. I found out a local, Alan who runs a local bike dealership, was buying a red wildcard and was going to be racing it, which started the little hamster in my head to get on his wheel and try to figure out what was this all about. After much haranging of ppl who can read chinese we found there was a race series and I went about signing up.
It was me and Ryan from Astrix bikes that ended up racing and the weekend before Keith and all of us went to practice the course... see tearing
up taiwan.The day of the race we decided to head down early even though we weren't on deck until around 2 o clock. Leaving at 9am we arrived 2.5 hours later in Daija, which is just north of Taichung, and grabbed an early lunch at McRaunchies where Ryan realized he lost his wallet. No biggie I got cash and can spot him, but he was still a little miffed and searching through the van realized he not only forgot his wallet but all his pads too. GAWD ryan you tool!!!
So do we drive back?? yep. So in the end I didn't get to even see the actual course and arrived just in time to 5min later get my start... it was a total rush.
The course was a freaking mudfest of epic proportions, it was not only flat but super slow and my choice of a hardtail was a good one. It was the kind of course that would see Jeff Kabush put the boots to the likes of Sam Hill considering the XC guys rode the same course in their XC loop - why are we having to wear all this gear again??Anyway it was just great to get out, and even though it pissed down rain, the course was slow, and I only got 4th place due to a well timed stick in spokes that I had to spend time yanking out, the race had tons of people come out and watch, it was super well organized [except for No Shuttling so you had to push your bike back to the top] and its just damn good to ride your bike for any reason at all.
I made this killer mud fender out of a apple juice bottle. My contemporaries from Whistler will know what this is all about... and how well it actually works.Thanks to William for coming out and taking pics. Some how he missed my run tho so I don't have any of me [guess i was just going too fast hehehe] but he did capture the "I forgot my Sh*t" culprit as he busts around a tree.
Anyway thats it for now.
I'll have some more coming up in the next few days of dragon boat racing, another DH race that MORE then made up for ease of this course, and there is a jump jam happening next week which I'll be going to before i leave for Canadaland the following day.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Mtbr.com virtual tradeshow booth
Got a sweet virtual tradeshow booth at mtbr.com
check it out as there are some very nice pics of the bikes... the lighting at bootleg canyon really sets off the bikes nicely.
Should have some more information going up on the site as well.
http://content.mtbr.com/TRD_14_348crx.aspx
check it out as there are some very nice pics of the bikes... the lighting at bootleg canyon really sets off the bikes nicely.
Should have some more information going up on the site as well.
http://content.mtbr.com/TRD_14_348crx.aspx
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Prices
Some people have been asking what are the prices of the new bikes...
We also have a kickass employee purchase this year too so if you work in the shops, then we recoqnize you probably work damn hard, don't get paid that much, and love bikes so we'll help you out.
Ok so here they are
Frames: retail: USD/CDN
Morphine .............................691usd/755cdn
Scirocco ..................................590/691
Viento ......................................590/691
Viento 29er ..............................590/691
Scratch .....................................396/372
Pyre w/ Float RP23 .................1645/1831
Pyre w/ Swinger X3 .................1510/1703
Rampant w/ RP2 ......................1618/1742
Rampant w/ Swinger X3 ...........1510/1672
Rune w/ DHX 5.0 Air ................1813/2035
Rune w/ DHX 5.0 Coil ..............1760/1969
Rune w/ DHX 3.0 COIL .............1593/1805
Rune w/ Evolver X4 Air ............1618/1835
Rune w/ Swinger X4 Coil ...........1535/1735
WildCard w/ DHX 5.0 Air ..........1855/2056
WildCard w/ DhX 5.0 Coil .........1800/1999
WildCard w/ DHX 3.0 Coil .........1619/1812
WildCard w/ Evolver X4 Air .....1694/1877
WildCard w/ Swinger X4 coil ....1575/1598
Scythe w/ DHX 5 Coil ...............1800/1999
Scythe w/ DHX 3 Coil ................1619/1832
Scythe w/ Swinger X6 Coil ........1640/1817
Guillame has posted up the EU prices for France... thanks for posting that up its definitely appreciated
http://bansheefrench.blogspot.com/
I'll post up prices of the completes next but i need to also post up the specs or you'll have no reference.
These prices are the MSRPs for North America, dealers can sell for less.
The price difference between USA and Canada given the parity of the dollar is due to many factors that are outside our control and have to do with duty and taxes and things like that.
We also have a kickass employee purchase this year too so if you work in the shops, then we recoqnize you probably work damn hard, don't get paid that much, and love bikes so we'll help you out.
Ok so here they are
Frames: retail: USD/CDN
Morphine .............................691usd/755cdn
Scirocco ..................................590/691
Viento ......................................590/691
Viento 29er ..............................590/691
Scratch .....................................396/372
Pyre w/ Float RP23 .................1645/1831
Pyre w/ Swinger X3 .................1510/1703
Rampant w/ RP2 ......................1618/1742
Rampant w/ Swinger X3 ...........1510/1672
Rune w/ DHX 5.0 Air ................1813/2035
Rune w/ DHX 5.0 Coil ..............1760/1969
Rune w/ DHX 3.0 COIL .............1593/1805
Rune w/ Evolver X4 Air ............1618/1835
Rune w/ Swinger X4 Coil ...........1535/1735
WildCard w/ DHX 5.0 Air ..........1855/2056
WildCard w/ DhX 5.0 Coil .........1800/1999
WildCard w/ DHX 3.0 Coil .........1619/1812
WildCard w/ Evolver X4 Air .....1694/1877
WildCard w/ Swinger X4 coil ....1575/1598
Scythe w/ DHX 5 Coil ...............1800/1999
Scythe w/ DHX 3 Coil ................1619/1832
Scythe w/ Swinger X6 Coil ........1640/1817
Guillame has posted up the EU prices for France... thanks for posting that up its definitely appreciated
http://bansheefrench.blogspot.com/
I'll post up prices of the completes next but i need to also post up the specs or you'll have no reference.
These prices are the MSRPs for North America, dealers can sell for less.
The price difference between USA and Canada given the parity of the dollar is due to many factors that are outside our control and have to do with duty and taxes and things like that.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
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