Softail air suspension units used to be a nightmare until now. The SAS has no compressor to mount, no pressure hoses to run, no fittings to fail…and it is absolute the easiest to install. You’ll never again experience slow leaks caused by a pinhole in one of your hoses that takes forever (if you are that lucky) to find. Raise and lower your rear end at the touch of a button. Add air pressure to improve ride quality during changing road conditions or while hauling added weight. Also improving the ride quality is an adjustable dampening valve. Ride height is also adjustable (maximum height is set during installation).

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Runner-Up #1: Cutter Designs, John Cutter (San Luis Obispo, CA). The first runner-up was John Cutter of his eponymous bicycle building studio, hailing from San Luis Obispo, some 900 miles down the Pacific Coast. As for the handlebar design, Cutter&mdash. For his Oregon Manifest bike, he opted for the funky, antler-like handlebars, that offered a variety of hand positions&mdash. explained that he'd had problems with his neck and could no longer ride on drops, so he'd taken to experimenting with a repositionable handlebar to optimize the angles. The University of Oregon's team of product design students, "led by adjunct professors Christian Freissler of Ziba Design and James Molyneux of Nike's Innovation Kitchen over the course of two regular terms plus some summer weeks," eventually... His modified step-through frame was versatile if nothing else, featuring "a very sensible one-key system for panniers, cable lock, pump, wheels and lights. easily one of the oldest competitors&mdash.

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