{"id":18539,"date":"2016-03-14T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/bikes-of-the-epic-adriaan-louw39s-swiftcarbon-evil-twin-r4345\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:33:45","slug":"bikes-of-the-epic-adriaan-louw39s-swiftcarbon-evil-twin-r4345","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/bikes-of-the-epic-adriaan-louw39s-swiftcarbon-evil-twin-r4345\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes of the Epic: Adriaan Louw&#8217;s SwiftCarbon Evil Twin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adriaan Louw is riding his trusted SwiftCarbon Evil Twin in the 2016 Absa Cape Epic. Team Contego SwiftCarbon took the opportunity to come up with a custom paint scheme. They allowed Adriaan to create his own design and enlisted the services of Bogus Designs to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>The bike features a custom tuned Fox Float Factory shock which Adriaan runs at 90 psi. Adriaan uses a Thomson seatpost and titanium saddle rails for reliability while mounting and dismounting during the race. The South Industries rims provide a wider profile than many cross-country race rims allowing Adriaan to comfortably run his Continental Race King tyres at around 18 to 20 psi.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-92672800-1457969720.jpg\" data-fileid=\"695615\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"695615\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"Swift Evil Twin A Louw-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-92672800-1457969720.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Specification List:<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"specsList clearfix\">\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Frame<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">SwiftCarbon Evil Twin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Fork<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">RockShox RS-1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Shock<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">Fox Float Factory<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Rims<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">South Industries<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Hubs<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">Tune King PS (Front) and Tune Kong (Rear)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Tyres<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">Continental Race King ProTection 2.2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Handlebars<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">Ritchey WCS Carbon 720mm<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Stem<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">Ritchey SuperLogic Carbon 90mm<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Headset<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">FSA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Brakes<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">SRAM Guide RSC with Avid 160mm rotors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Shifters<\/span><span class=\"row_data\">SRAM XX1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"row_title\">Derailleurs<\/span><span 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Team Contego SwiftCarbon took the opportunity to come up with a custom paint scheme. They allowed Adriaan to create his own design and enlisted the services of Bogus Designs to pull it off. The bike features a custom tuned Fox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[76,2185,1513,24,3010,373,279],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-absa-cape-epic","tag-adriaan-louw","tag-bikes-of-the-epic","tag-cape-epic","tag-evil-twin","tag-swift","tag-swiftcarbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18539"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}