{"id":16087,"date":"2018-03-21T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2018\/03\/21\/pinners-paincave-unwrapping-the-radness-r7199\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T06:05:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:05:17","slug":"pinners-paincave-unwrapping-the-radness-r7199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/pinners-paincave-unwrapping-the-radness-r7199\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinner\u2019s Paincave: Unwrapping the Radness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unveiling the Blur’s decals after today’s Stage. Photo credit: Gary Perkin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today was a great day. It not only marked another solid effort by Team MCL on Stage 2, but also the culmination of months\u2019 worth of preparation that came together with this morning\u2019s global unveiling of Santa Cruz\u2019s all-new XC \/ Marathon machine<\/a>, the Blur.<\/p>\n

Since joining Rush Sports (the local distributors of Santa Cruz) towards the end of last year, the Blur\u2019s launch has been a major goal for us. When we heard the announcement was set for March 20th, we couldn\u2019t quite believe it. It was during the Epic!<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-76774300-1521608461.jpeg\"<\/a>My Bike started the stage blank and finished a Blur! Photo credit: Gary Perkin.<\/span><\/p>\n

After chatting to Santa Cruz, we managed to get one or two Blurs specially shipped directly from California, which arrived in Cape Town at 01:00am on March 14th \u2013 only four days before Epic! Having collected the frame and build-kit before 6am, I screamed through to Marc Carr at East City Cycles in Harrington Street who woke up extra early to help a brother out with a skelm, pre-dawn, bike build. None of his customers could see this bike!<\/p>\n

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With the Blur built, I had hoped to get some quality time on it during the week, however, I was massively under the pump getting stuff sorted for Epic and didn\u2019t find the time to ride it. Eish.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, on Saturday morning, Zone and I enjoyed an hour\u2019s burn before registering, which allowed me to take a heavily taped-up Blur for its maiden voyage \u2026 an hour is not a lot of time but at least it gave me a chance to check if the bolts were tight! As for my setup \u2026 exact science would have to take a back seat, I was going old school. Slam it, send it and go!<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-11029800-1521608464.jpeg\"<\/a>Full Gas! Photo credit: Gary Perkin.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-97683800-1521608466.jpeg\"<\/a>The Blur is perfectly built for South Africa. Photo credit: Gary Perkin.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Prologue, Stage 1 and 2 conquered, the 10+ hours of rugged, unforgiving riding has given me more than enough time to get my setup dialled, as well as get to grips with the ins and the outs of this marathon specific dual sus.<\/p>\n

Based on the last three days, the Blur has proven to be an extremely compelling addition to the local market and is more than up to the task of dominating local riding conditions.<\/p>\n

Amidst all the action, my highlight from today\u2019s Stage 2 was peeling off the black tape to reveal a crisp, clean, off-white Santa Cruz down-tube logo … with Zone on my wheel and one of my oldest cycling mates – Gary Perkin – alongside to capture the moment.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-63686000-1521608469.jpeg\"<\/a>Mid Ride reveal as the embargo lifted. Photo credit: Gary Perkin.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an absolute honour to have been given the opportunity to roll on what was an undercover frame, and in doing so play a small part in the Blur\u2019s launch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unveiling the Blur’s decals after today’s Stage. Photo credit: Gary Perkin. Today was a great day. It not only marked another solid effort by Team MCL on Stage 2, but also the culmination of months\u2019 worth of preparation that came together with this morning\u2019s global unveiling of Santa Cruz\u2019s all-new XC \/ Marathon machine, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,702,707],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure-and-travel","tag-cape-epic","tag-pinners-paincave","tag-santa-cruz-blur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16087"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}