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NSMB - Apr 10, 2025

The Lal Bikes Supre Drive Looks Super Weird but Proves to Ride Super Normal

Singletracks - May 23, 2023

First Look: Lal Bikes' Supre Drivetrain Splits The Derailleur In Half Before It Happens On the Trail

Pinkbike - Nov 12, 2021

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Lal Bikes 2024 recap

There’s been lots going on at Lal Bikes this past year. As mentioned in our last newsletter, we’ve been in a bit of stealth mode to focus while we develop a frame. We’re not ready to reveal the most juicy details, but read on for some insight. At the beginning

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January 6, 2025

Update about Supre bikes

When I started Lal Bikes, the long term vision was to become a drivetrain manufacturer that sells derailleurs and other drivetrain parts to many bike companies. This is still our vision because it’s the way to make the Supre Drive the most available for mountain bikers, but the way that

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July 11, 2024

Article on singletracks.com

If you’re interested in what we’re doing at Lal Bikes, I think you’ll enjoy this article: https://www.singletracks.com/mtb-gear/the-lal-bikes-supre-dr… Sam James from Singletracks came over for a visit recently. We showed him our shop and had a long chat about the adventure of getting to where we’re at, and about how the

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January 22, 2024

Progress in 2023

Moving into 2024, we have a super exciting project that I can’t wait to share with you folks. But in the meantime, here are some highlights from 2023: 1. Right at the start of 2023, I was joined by Alex Ham who moved from South Africa to join Lal. We’ve

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January 7, 2024

Amazing huck-to-flat video

Slow motion video of bikes bottoming out, featuring the Supre Drive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQSv3Asu6E This video is part of the recent Pinkbike field test, and it includes beautiful slow motion footage of several bikes landing to flat, with full suspension compression. In the second half of the video, they show the drive-side

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November 3, 2023

Pinkbike review of the Nicolai Nucleon 16

Pinkbike just published an article about their recent testing of the Nicolai Nucleon 16 with our drivetrain, the Supre Drive. Check it out! https://www.pinkbike.com/news/field-test-nicolai-nucleon-16-supre-the-silent-plow.html The feedback is positive and we’re stoked. The team here at Lal is pumped to keep charging forward! Thanks to Pinkbike for giving us for the

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October 25, 2023

Our latest adventure: CNC machining

Here’s a video about the adventure of moving our first big CNC machine into our shop and starting to use it to make aluminum drivetrain parts: https://youtu.be/KGvGKVAqpkU And here’s a photo of one of the first parts that we machined: This CNC machine is a big investment and the start

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October 22, 2023

Lal Bikes on the Bikes & Big Ideas podcast

Alex and I joined David Golay on the Bikes & Big Ideas podcast. We talked about a bunch of things including the adventure of setting up the company, Alex moving to Canada, working with Nicolai and other bike companies, and manufacturing the Supre Drive parts. Check it out wherever you

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July 20, 2023

Pinkbike article: bike check & shop tour

Brian Park from Pinkbike recently came over to check out our first Nicolai Nucleon 16 bike and also to see our shop here on the Coast. Check out the article for nice photos and text showing the awesome bike that is the Nucleon along with insight into where the Supre

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May 23, 2023

Progress in 2022

I posted in social media about our progress highlights for 2022 and folks seemed to enjoy that kind of summary, so I’m including the same highlights here but with more details: 1. I scouted out where to move to in coastal BC. After an earlier trip, the candidates had boiled

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January 1, 2023