Ed Zunda

Jems’ Lombric

Here’s a nice edit of Jems’ bike, built around his Lombric signature frame, coming together. Then he goes riding at some really dialled trails.

Style!

Simple products for 2011

Simple Bikes have been bangin’ out some updates about their new products on the site lately. The entire range of frames have been looked over and revamped from the ground up. The existing models retain the same proven geometry, but they have been dialled in and tweaked to suit the demands of 2011 with tapered tubing, integrated gussets and a built in pivotal post for the Enigma.

Also, two new models have been introduced — the Riga and the Lombric.

The Riga is Eduards Zunda’s signature frame and the Lombric is designed as per Jeremy Muller’s preference. The both feature a new style dropout where the chainstay and seatstay endcaps are an integrated part of the dropout.

Have a look at some photos:

The Eject hub and stem have also undergone a bit of an update. The hub is now slimmer and lighter and one of the endcones have been integrated with the axle. The stem got the ’rounding off’ treatment and have been styled to match the style of the System frontloader.

Mark Vos | Bikecheck

Just spotted Mark Vos’ bikecheck on FAT. He’s got a pretty dialled Simple setup with a custom flame paintjob. Clicketyclick on the pic to get to it.

Simple Bikes | EZ Frame

I’m a bit late on posting this one, but here are some more detailed shots of the EZ frame, Eduards Zunda signature, that will be released in early 2011. I’ve worked on this frame together with Simple and Ed for quite a while.

Being Ed’s signature frame, it has of course been tailored to his specifications as far as geometry and general appearance goes, and we’ve added some refinements over previous frames we’ve made.

The frame features removable brakemounts, integrated gussets in HT/DT/TT junction. The dropouts and chainstay/seatstay caps are made of one piece of steel which adds clearance for a hubguard on the inside of the dropouts as well as giving a nice look to it. CS & SS are tapered and the seattube tapers down to a smaller diameter where it meets the new Mid BB that we opted for instead of the Spanish BB that we have been running in the past.

The geometry is as follows:

• Toptube | 20.6″, 20.9″ or 21.2″
• Headtube | 75˚
• Seattube | 70˚
• Chainstay length | 13.6″ (345mm) center to center
• BB height | 1.6″ over axle center/center line (approximately equates to 11.6″ depending on fork/headset/tyre setup.)

EZ frame by Simple

Here’s a first look at Eduards Zunda’s signature frame from Simple Bikes. It’s a pretty straight forward frame. The main thing that’s a bit different is the dropouts where the chain stay and seat stay end caps are one piece with the dropout instead of welded on separately. It gives a rather clean look and the way it is welded also leaves a lot of clearance on the inside of the dropouts for running hub guards and whatnot.

Also check out this Southern California edit from Ed and his buddy Arthur Dietrich.

Simple @ Interbike

Simple is at Interbike too.
From this video on Vital BMX I learned about some new prototypes that are being shown.

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Simple site refreshed

Travis has been hard at work creating an updated interface for the Simple Bikes website. It’s still got basically the same layout, but instead of side scrolling between posts, now they are displayed in a vertically scrolling fashion.

It’s now also possible to search via tags attached to each post (welcome to the modern world of website browsing).

I think it’s a good update.

Adrian in Hofors

Quick indoor edit of Simple’s trick machine Adrian Malmberg. Here he’s shredding the local park of small town Hofors. Some really good stuff in this edit.

Carhartt edit

The good man Dominik Wrobel over at Woozy have been busy filming and editing an online video for Carhartt featuring Simple Bikes rider Eduards Zunda along with Stefan Lantschner, Owain Clegg and Mike Miller. Here’s the result, and I must say it’s a bangin’ edit with equally bangin’ riding from all involved. Good work guys!