Before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming and start looking forward into 2009, lets take a second to look at some of the changes that took place in 2008. Over the course of the year, a lot changed in the mountain biking industry that was good and bad. Here are my winners and losers of 2008. Winners of 2008 Specialized - Specialized picked up two of the...

SRAM has been taking the industry by storm with it’s new products and innovations over the past year. With the new Hammerschmidt front drive system, Avid Elixir brakes and a completely redesigned Rock Shox line…2009 looks to be a big year for SRAM components. What hasn’t changed much for the the 2009 model year is the conventional shifting lines from...