Another frame for the wish-list! (pun intended)
Although I know I’ll get a new Leader frame for free if I break my Trick Star, I must admit I really like the new to come All City Def Wish. You might have seen it on several other blogs, but I still wanted to give you my opinion.
It comes with 14 mm dropouts with spacers if you still ride wit 10 mm axles, like me…
But the best feature on this frame are the non-dimpled chain stays! As All City says it:

Bottom line: a dimpled tube just isn’t going to be as strong as a fully round tube.  With this in mind we designed around using an inside stay tire clearance dimple. The Def Wish fits a 29X2.0 tire slammed in the dropouts and without sacrificing rear end strength.

The Def Wish will be released in March for around $360. Decent price for a decent frame if you ask me…

More pics and info on the All City blog.

Michael Chacon got a nice interview on the Nike Sportswear website. It’s a shame I didn’t see him ride at the BFF Paris contest…

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Look what the Heavy Pedal found!

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Marcus from Leader build himself a really nice Mordecai. I’m still not convinced about the 26″ wheels though…
So I guess it will be a Shadow when I ever break my Trickstar.
Parts:

Frame: Leader Mordecai
Fork: Reaper
Feet: Velocity Cyco Rear Michelin 1.85, P35 Front Serfas Tire 2.0
Sprocket / Crank: Profile Splined
Bars: Trk Star Cross Bar
Stem: Thompson
Saddle: Odyssey 
Seat Post: Trick Star

Found on Pedal Consumption.

Sunday I posted about how refreshing it was to see a nice edit of somebody just mashing through traffic, and now there’s another clean edit of Rudy Melo riding his Leader!
It’s about time Skitch, the Fuccit boys and I make a nice edit, showing the Arnhem hills to the rest of the world!

This is the second bikecheck of a complete Leader Mordecai. I was first a BIG Shadow fan, but seeing this one and the one I posted Saturday, I must admit that the Mordecai looks great! Same tire clearance as the Shadow, but with classic straight tubing…
Lets just hope my v2 doesn’t break, ’cause right now, I wouldn’t know hat frame to choose.
This setup was build by/for Matt Spencer, with these parts:

Frame: Leader Mordecai
Fork: Leader Shadow
Stem: Demolition
Bars: Gusset
Saddle: San Marcos
Cranks: Demolition 160
Sprocket: Tree Splined 29t
Cog: Bens Cycle 12t
Straps: Phoenix
Hubs: F: Odyssey Vandero 2 R: All City Sheriff
Rims: 700c P35s
Tires: Kenda 50c

More detailed pics at Wolfdrawn.

I’ve posted the first CAD drawings of the Leader Mordecai frame a while ago, and today I found the first pics of a complete build Mordecai on Pedal Consumption. You can pre-order the frames now at Leader!

Kareem from Loose Nuts Cycles build his Mordecai with these components:

Frame: Leader Mordecai 55cm Celeste
Wheels: Sunringle MTX33′s
Cranks: Eighth Inch BMX Splined 160mm
Pedals: Shadow Conspiracy Ravager
Straps: Death Pedal Protos
BB: Shadow Conspiracy Mid BB
Sprocket: Tree 33t
Tires: 50c Michelin City
Stem: Leader Spartan
Seat: Animal Pivotal
Seatpost: Macneil 27.2 Pivotal
Bars: Answer Alumilite High Rise
Grips: MKE

There are a lot more detailed pics of the build at their website.

That’s one HUGE bunnyhop by Michael Chacon!
Found it at Heavy Pedal.

It’s good to see moving images of the new Leader Shadow frame!