Staff member of the day

Name: Brendan
Age: 30
Occupation: Mechanic, specialises in concrete joinery
Marital Status: Despite suffering a childhood gingery is happily married with two children.
Interests: Fords, Formula 1, Fords, Fords, also likes Fords, likes to talk about Fords, is a member of the Ford RS owners club.
Bikes: Rock Lobster road bike, Malt 1, ancient Peugot fixie.
Most likely to say: I just left foot outbraked an Impreza on the McDonald's roundabout.
Least likely to say: I've just scrapped that Ford rustbucket pile of cr*p I call my car.
Interesting fact: Corners in the wet on his road bike like its on rails, well that would be like a 3 year old riding a tricycle on some particularly sticky rails.

2007 bikes

2007 bike details are still yet to be fully finalised, but you can expect the usual high specification and value for money assembled in the U.K bikes from Rock Lobster and Merlin.

We have now moved to powder coating finishes on most of the range. This now gives us a super durable and tough finish. The Rock Lobster 853 continues to be stove enamelled and the Malt 1 is a clear coated polished and ball burnished finish.

We are particularly excited about the new range of 2007 Maguras. We've had early production examples of the Odur, Menja and Laurin and they are superb forks. We will be offering very attractively priced upgrades to these forks on all the range.

The 2007 Merlin range:

Again, we will be offering all the bikes as a standard spec. with a full Deore groupset, Magura Julies, our handbuilt wheels and an FSA finishing kit. The fork will be the 2007 Marzocchi MX Pro. Obviously, there will be lots of equipment and specification upgrades available. We trust the range will continue to build upon the success of last year.

The Malt 1 is Kinesis 7005 heat treated aluminium and is finished in ball burnished and laquered aluminium.

The Malt 2 is double butted 7005 aluminium and is now finished in powder coat Champagne Titanium.

Our flagship Malt 4 continues to use Kinesis hydroformed Knesium tubing and is finished in Diamond White.

The 2007 Rock lobster Range:

The spcification will continue to be very high with full XT groupset, Easton finishing kit, Hope brakes, Marzocchi MX Pro ETA forks within the standard specification. Again, we will be offering the customer a choice of component, fork and specification upgrades so that they can tailor the bike to their needs based on four frame options starting at £995:

Rock Lobster 853; We feel that steel frames continue to be very popular in the UK and our 853 is now something of a "classic" with the compliant, lively ride feel of Reynolds 853. Its a lovely Metallic Ruby Red.

Rock Lobster Tig Team SL; An Easton Ultralite frame finished either in a powder coat stealth black or ball burnished and polished aluminium.

Rock Lobster Team Titanium; Built from 3AL 2.5V titanium, a superb handling, value for money Ti frame.

Rock Lobster B52; A hardcore XC/All Mountain/Freeride do it all frame made from Easton RAD tubing and designed around a 130-150mm fork.

More Morzine Pics!

Andy's Morzine road jump!

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOM1fl2Yr0

Morzine pictures

Morzine

Andy and Paul just got back from a long weekend in Morzine. http://www.morzine.com/ Both thought it was very cool. Andy was well pleased with his new Magura Wotans on his Commencal. Pictures and videos soon as soon as Alex emails them to us...........

Staffmember of the day

Name: Andy
Occupation: The manager
Age: 34
Marital status: Married to "me Jillsy", two children, Mondeo man personified
Bikes: Rock Lobster Tig Team SL, Commencal Meta 5
Interests: Motorbikes, Chicken Kievs, Cottage cheese, dieting,
Catchphrase: "Tight as cramp, hairy as hell"

Rock Lobster Scandium

Custom built Scandium frame from Paul Sadoff in the US. A sensible 3.3 lbs in weight and finished in Gun Metal powdercoat.

The end of summer?

Well, its started to rain again in Leyland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland
I fear Summer has finally once again given way to the incessant raining that is the North West's climate. Apparently New York City receives more rain than Leyland and also bizarrely Rome has about the same. That really doesn't explain why the trails are turning to mud again. I can't imagine they sell many Panaracer Trailraker's in Western Italy, especially this time of year.

Anyway, Leyland rocks apparently and I'll tell you why. How can any town that produced the Austin Maxi, Morris Marina, Allegro, Montego and Princess ever be derided as not being a bastion of British manufacturing? In reality though, Leyland did produce some genuinely great cars, buses and trucks: Land Rover, the Mini, the MG Midget all hailed the company from this small Lancashire town. So, lets forget about the rain and repeat after me'; "Leyland, rocks!"

Staffmember of the day part 2

Name: John P, JP
Occupation: Mail Order, Phones, Emails, Source of amusement
Age: 37
Marital status: Despite being camper than the entire camping section of Millets he's very happily engaged to Tracey thanks.
Bikes: Rock Lobster 853, Cinelli road bike.
Interests: Playing guitar in bands, music, bikes, dogs, curry

Staffmember of the Day

Name: Nigel, or Nige
Occupation: Shop Manager, Freeride God
Marital status: Married, sorry Ladies
Age: As the hills
Bikes: Rock Lobster B52, Specialized Big Hit
Interests: Bikes, films, music, comics
Most likely to say: Did you see the pop I just got then on that dropoff?
Least Likely to say: Fancy doing 80 miles on the road bikes over the Trough lads?

Ok, final pictures of 2007 colours!

Tig Team SL in Stealth Black and Ball Burnished. Malt 4 in Diamond White. Malt 2 in Champagne Titanium.

Rock Lobster Singlespeed

Paul Sadoff from http://www.rocklobstercycles.com sent us this from the States recently, its one of his new singlespeed frames. This one is Tange Ultimate tubing with custom disc mounts from Paul. Immaculate welding and attantion to detail as usual. Whether we'll do a production version in the future or not I don't know.

New Shop

The new shop has been open now for about a month and is doing really well. Its much bigger than the old one and allows us to carry a much greater choice of stock both in the shop and in the extra room we've now got in the warehouse. We've also expanded the range of bikes we, and as well as Rock Lobster and Merlin we now stock Commencal: http://www.commencal.com and Iron Horse: http://www.ironhorsebikes.com

Opening hours are as follows:

Monday - 9-30am to 8pm (late night opening)
Tuesday - 9-30am to 5-30pm
Wednesday - 9-30am to 5-30pm
Thursday - 9-30am to 8pm (late night opening)
Friday - 9-30am to 5-30pm
Saturdays - We are only open the first Saturday in every month from 10am to 4pm.

Malt 2& Malt 4 2007

New colour Malt 2 in champagne titanium powder coat and Malt 4 in white powder coat!

New 2007 frames are in!!

The new 2007 colours for the Rock Lobster Tig team SL came in last week. Powder coat black and polished. The polished one looks nice and retro and the black should be a super-tough finish now its pwder coated. The frame otherwise remains unchanged though: Easton Ultralite aluminium for £299!

JP

First Post!!

Welcome to our blog!

Lots has been happening, so we thought we start this page to update customers with regular news, gossip and just general inane postings!

JP