France’s Julien Absalon’s Olympic Gold Mountain Bike
January 12, 2009 by Carl Martens
Filed under Industry News
Last year, France’s Julien Absalon won his second Olympic gold medal in China. The 28 year old Absalon is quite possibly the best cross country mountain bike rider in the world.
What bike does he ride?
Absalon won gold with an Orbea mountain bike that weighed 18.5 pounds that has an estimated value of $12,000 and has several blackbox (prototype) components that are available to only a few select riders. Below is what makes up his bike.
- Orbea Alma SL2.5r carbon fiber frame
- RockShox BlackBox SID World Cup fork, 3.5 inches travel
- Orbea Zeus Carbon SL handlebars
- SRAM BlackBox X.O Twist Shifters
- Avid BlackBox Juicy Ultimate disc brakes, six inch rotors
- Truvativ Noir carbon fiber crankset
- Fulcrum Red carbon wheels with stock spokes and Tune Titanium Quick Lock hubs
- Hutcchinson Piranha Tubless Ready tires, 26 x 2.0
- Time ATAC XS Carbon pedals
- Selle Italia SLR saddle with titanium rails and prototype shell
- SRAM X.) rear derailleur
- SRAM Red front derailleur
- SRAM 11-32 BlackBox Ti cassette
- Foam Ultralite grips
- Zeus Carbon seatpost
- Orbea carbon fiber seatpost collar
- Time Tital Carbon AttacX stem
- Truvativ BlackBox GXP ceramic bearing bottom bracket
- FSA aluminum headset
- SRAM 991 HollowPin chain
- KCNC bar ends
- Elite carbon water bottle cage
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This post was written by:
Carl Martens - who has written 67 posts on Mountain bike product reviews, bike builds, trail reviews, forum, and tips – MTOBikes.com.
Carl H. Martens is founder of Made to Order Bikes, Inc. Originally from the burbs of Chicago, IL he now resides in the city of Roswell which is located just north of Atlanta. He enjoys riding Big Creek which is just down the road from where he lives.
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