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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

Video of the Nucleon 16 at the Eurobike tradeshow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtu9b1_jBv0 In this video, Doddy from GMBN shows the Nicolai Nucleon 16 with the Supre Drive, and he does a great job of explaining it. Clicking this video preview sends you to the relevant part of the video. Doddy’s excited about the bike, like a lot of other people including

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July 17, 2022

Supre bike: Nicolai Nucleon 16

Here’s the Nicolai Nucleon 16. It’s highly likely to be the first production bike with the Supre Drive. For more photos, head over to our website page about this bike: https://lalbikes.com/bikes/nicolai-nucleon-16/ It’s an enduro bike in the 160-180mm travel category with shredding capabilities to be expected from high pivot suspension

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July 12, 2022

Video tour of the new Lal HQ

Here’s a link to the video: https://youtu.be/Z7oUsH8T85E At the beginning of April, I moved from Chelsea, Quebec to the Sunshine Coast in BC. I’m renting a little industrial unit, and I’ve spent most of the past two months getting this new workspace set up. I wasn’t expecting how much work

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June 13, 2022

Lal’s now on the Sunshine Coast

Some exciting updates Lal has relocated to the Sunshine Coast Lal HQ has relocated from my parents’ basement in Chelsea, QC to the Sunshine Coast in BC! I’m renting this 150m2 industrial space in Wilson Creek (which is near Coast Gravity Park, for reference) and I’m living in Roberts Creek.

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April 28, 2022

Pinkbike 2021 Innovation Of The Year winner!

The Supre Drive won the Pinkbike Innovation of the Year award! Head over to the article linked below to learn more. There was some great competition, including Rockshox Flight Attendant. To win the innovation award up against this kind of competition is a huge honor. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/pinkbike-awards-2021-innovation-of-the-year-winner.html The support that I’m

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December 27, 2021

Nominee for Innovation of the Year, and a new podcast episode

In a recent Pinkbike article, the Supre Drive is included as one of several nominees for the Pinkbike Innovation of the Year award. I recommend checking out this article—the nominees are interesting. It’s fascinating how creative people are with mountain bike technology. Regardless of whether the Supre Drive wins the

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December 20, 2021