Happy new year

Just want to wish every one a happy new year for 2010 and a massive thanks to every one for their support with Severed Alliance, just hitting the Vodka now and first one is for you guys!

Cheers

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The locals

A little edit of what goes down round our neck of the woods. Riders, Chief Wiggum, our 24" rider Matty showing he can also hold his own on a 20" and our good mate Larry from Standard

Enjoy

Liam

we have just hooked up our local shredder Liam (aka Chief Wiggum)

Liam is an animal on his parts, I can not keep up with the amount off stuff he has broken this year but I do know this includes 2 TTL frames. So i have hooked him up with the sub 4lb forum comment frame

Here's Liam new ride


Bike check to follow.

Ha Cheif Wiggum will probably knock me out for sticking this up but here he is in all his glory lol

Ludwig all cranked up

Our mtb shredder ludwig sent me over these pics of the SA cranks fitted to his 24" proto frame, he is loving them big time!







Just to show you how we slimmed our cranks down Ludwig took a shot of the SA cranks next to some WTP and Profile cranks he has destroyed this year

SA ukraine distribution guys

Just been sent this sweet little edit from Evgen over at Street ride from the Ukraine, yeah these guys like pegs, ha. You know you must be doing something right when these guys are distributing your products

Kovzer in Kiev one day edit from Victorov Victor on Vimeo.

Ramprage demo

Just been sent these pics from Matt Gillespie of our team rider Mikey shreddin the sub 4lb Forum Comment frame on one of the Ramprage demo days over in Lisburn Ireland.





Pictures by Graham Curry

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no more gusset

Ok here we have a shot of the down tube of the 24" frame as you can see it is a lot thicker at one side this will replace the gusset on the 24" frame, iv seen it written time and time again on other companies frame write ups special off set internal gusset, blah blah, woop woop, look what we have done etc. Ha Special offset butted downtube with no external gusset just means the tube is thicker on one side, it does its job though and improves the strength of the frame and looks a whole lot better than an external gusset.

so we are ditching our gusset and fitting "Special offset butted downtube with no external gusset", ha

Marcus

We have hooked up Marcus from germany with some of our cranks his bike looks the business

street ride distribution

Got the logo from the Evgen at street ride distribution from the Ukraine and have to admit the logo looks ace!

As you cant tell by the video i put up on my blog of these guys they are about as hardcore as you can get, well stoked to have streetride onboard



StreetRide Distribution. Riders to riders in mind.
Located in Kyiv, Popova 10-a street.
web streetride.com.ua

Digglers S&M

Just to wanted to share these pics with you of my mate Digglers S&M with SA proto bars and forks, you gotta love this bike!

Matt gets some new parts

Matt sent me some new pics over after destroying most the parts on his bike since his last bike check,

new bike check
new profile mini hubs
new ODY 7k & G SPORT rims
S.A. proto cranks
new ODY peds
New fit FAF K front tire
S.A. 8.5 proto bars,
wethepeople stub seat
kmc 710SL chain
animal edwin grips (20 lbs ) in all.

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Here is a still from the edit taken at Unit 13, stay tuned as Matt does not go easy on his parts

just before chroming and paint

Can not wait for these to be in the same color as the forks! They still look sweet as in raw though

Wow!

You know it looks dappa! 26" fork

fitted

Just need a new saw blade to cut the steerer tube down

These guys to distribute in the Ukraine

Just been sent this from my good friend Evgen at Street Ride from the Ukraine who will be distributing SA over there, these guys rule. I will update you all about Street Ride when Evgen gets his act together and sends me his company logo, ha.

Новое видео (трейлер) from Victorov Victor on Vimeo.

look what i got

Now i can finally ditch my Boxxers, I love the quality of Marzocchi in my opinion they are by far the best forks out, and the factory that makes the tubes for my frames, bars, forks and cranks also makes the stanchions for these forks, how many people can say that about their frames!




Il get some pictures up of these on my rig when iv fitted them.

The paint factory

One of my last stops was at the painting factory, the only reason i went there was because i was curious to see what they did and to help me get all SA products perfect. It was a bit of an eye opener to see just what goes on in there i had never seen so many different types of bike products in one place. Basically all the cycle stuff thats made over there from the 12" wheel kiddies wall mart bike to the full on DH rig ends up here to get painted.

I took shots of each stage of the process to show you how it all works

Ok the products are hooked on to a line and then first primed, the paint gun is attached to the roof and moves up an down while spraying


Then the line moves along to the next automatic spray gun and the first layer of paint is applied




After this the paint is finished off by hand but what shocked me is the lack of protection the guy was wearing i bet his lungs are chuffed! behind the line was a continuos flow of water to catch any over spray



Then the line moves into the biggest oven ever! yes it was warm in there, ha



If the product has under lacquer decals then they are applied here then sent back through the line where the whole process is repeated with clear lacquer but if not they are just applied here and then sent back to the frame makers



I have no idea what products they are painting here though, maybe i should of asked, ha

pre production bars nearly done

Here is a shot of my BMX bars mid production, these bars are made by my tube maker and they also make for NS bikes and Odyssey to name some of the other companies who get there bars made here...............are all the BMW shots a clue??



as soon as they are finished il get the pictures up for you.

Bears bikes

Ben from Bears bikes kindly met me on the way to Chosen hubs to show me round the factory as he works there as well, as im planning on working on hubs in the future and wanted to see how things work in the factory to get a better idea for when i design my own. For those of you that dont know, Chosen make at least 90% of higher end hubs on the market today such as Proper, Eclat, Colony, NS bikes, Odyssey the list is endless.

Cranks

My luggage turned up yesterday so now i can finally start putting some information up!

Ok my second stop over in taiwan was at my frame and crank maker, Douglas. Douglas makes frames and cranks for many brands but just to name one would be WTP, and his factory is one of the best i have seen with outstanding quality control checks at every stage of production.


We have been testing these cranks for a while now and have held up to everything we have thrown at them and will be out early next year!

Spec
2.5 piece
fully liquid heat treated after welding SA tubing arms
fully liquid heat treated butted 48 spline axle
strong as Bull

The best bit about these cranks is the weight 730g........................Oi Eastern how do you like those apples, eh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im thinking the production color should be chrome? Below is a picture of a set Douglas nocked up for me



Just to give you a better view of them






This is a picture of WTP frames and cranks being welded up




And Douglas him self

Liquid heat treating

OK, I'm back in the UK now and the airline has lost my luggage with my camera in with all my pictures on, until that hopefully turns up I will explain more about the liquid heat treating process.

So this liquid heat treating process isn't some new radical process that promises crazy weight with standard tubes. Basically all heat treating processes are the same, the product is put into an oven and heated up which makes the frame stronger and a little lighter. Most of the ovens in Taiwan are heated with air which is fine for most frames but with light weight frames it can lead to all sorts of problems. Basically the air that heats the oven will heat certain parts of the oven more than other parts which will lead to some parts of the frames being over heated and being heated for too long leading to brittle welds and tubes but also some parts not being heated enough and leading to un even weight and tube strength

The liquid heat treating heats the oven with a liquid that is at a constant controled temperature but is also constantly circulating to avoid any temperature changes, this leads to a product that is perfectly and evenly heat treated and is a must for light weight stuff.

All of SA cromo products will be heated this way, but as mentioned this is not some new radical heat treating process its just a better way of heating the oven that heat treats the frames.

Liquid heat treatment

Will explain it all tomorrow.............jet lag, ha

revised fork

Today i went to my fork makers, and was well impressed with the work Jack had done on them, Jack also makes forks for many of the top brands out there including NS bikes and Odyssey and his quality is amazing!

I will put a better shot up of the fork when its finished later in the week but just to give you the run down on what has been changed on the fork is as follows,

Tapered legs
smaller drop outs
shortened legs from 450mm to 435

here is shot of the man himself








also here is a shot of what is inside the fork







new drop out








After my meeting with Jack he kindly took me out for some food, this is what we ate................i kid you not! This is not a butchers shop this was the local cafe, ha

Destination Taiwan

This is going to be one of the best road trips out, I flew from Manchester to Paris to Hong kong to Taiwan, it was an epic, sleepless 23 hr journey and most of it was parked in this seat below.
















I killed my ipod battery watched the new Terminator movie, Star Trek, Night at the Museum 2 and Transformers 2 twice

8.75 and 9" rise any one?

Early next year we will launch our bars in 8.25, 8.5, 8.75 and 9" rises.

check with your countries distributor as these will be limited qty

Severed to be distributed in Poland

My good friend Simon from Manyfest BMX in Poland will be the Distributor for Severed Alliance over there. His store stocks more of the worlds top brands than you can think of, and yet again as with all the SA bikes distributors, Simon rides and rides hard! He has just been recovering from a operation after he broke his knee on his BMX.

WTF!!

Just to show you guys what an animal Mat Gillespie is look at this! Iv never seen a hub snap in half before, this was the second hub of week testing his proto frame after destroying his cassette on his previous hub as pictured in his bike check. its good to see the proto is being put through some!

Session at Corby any one?

see you guys there

on the way to mikey

Spec
fully heat treated after welding patented SA tubing legs
5mm thick laser cut drop outs
Butted threaded steerer tube
integrated bearing race
6061 cnc top cap
weight 880g

Soon!

Coming your way early 2010!!

Ludwig mans up........

.........and goes brakeless!