New hardware from Kuat, Lezyne and Trigon

by Steve Frothingham

  • September 22, 2009
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By Ben Delaney

Küat Racks is a relatively new company with some innovative hitch-mounted bike carriers.

Photo: Ben Delaney

Küat, Lezyne and Trigon may not be huge names in the bike industry, but they’ve got some cool stuff. We checked out the latest at Outdoor Demo.

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  • Based in Springfield, Missouri, Küat Racks is a relatively new company with some innovative hitch-mounted bike carriers. The NV is the brand new, all-aluminum model.
  • The $415 NV includes the Trail Doc, a pivoting bike work stand that mounts onto the rack’s rear.
  • Beefy aluminum cam locks make pivoting the rack up (for transport) or down (for rear vehicle entry) clean and easy.
  • The Trail Doc telescopes out and up to serve as a full-size bike repair stand.
  • The Trail Doc is also available separately for use with Saris Cycle-On, Thule T2 and Yakima Hold Up racks.
  • Küat Racks feature an expanding wedge (the lighter silver part) that eliminates wobble.
  • The NV has a built-in cable lock.
  • The NV’s locking cable stows tidily inside the rack’s body. The lock heads are held in place by magnets, and the same key is used to lock the rack to the vehicle’s hitch.
  • Lezyne continues to expand its line of precision tools, as company founder Micki Kozuschek blends engineering with design. “In the old days, everything just worked. It didn’t look great, but it worked. Now some things look great, but they don’t last,” he said. “We’re doing this differently.”
  • This 10-function tool weighs 48 grams. (An empty soda can weighs 14 grams.) It has a T30 in addition to 8 standard Allen keys and a chain tool. “We're not making the Super Tool 25,000,” Kozuschek said. “We just make what you need.”
  • The Steel Floor Drive is an economical version ($49) of the company’s popular CNC Drive ($99).
  • The Steel Floor Drive uses an interchangeable and easily rebuildable head for Presta and Schrader.
  • With one hand, it’s easy to get the pump up to 80psi.
  • Don’t recognize the brand Trigon? You probably wouldn’t recognize the parent company, either. But Great Go Cycles has been making frames and components for companies like Pinarello, Blue, Leopard and FSA for years. The RQC-929 features BB30, a 1.125/1.5-inch headset, and trapezoidal tubing.
  • Trigon’s integrated bar/stem is new to the market, but the manufacturers are not new to the concept, having produced such things for its customers.
  • Tubular routing for cable housing makes set up clean and easy.
  • From road and cyclocross to mountain, Trigon makes everything but the drivetrains.

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