Sweet like Candy!

So since we officially don't have the log on info anymore for Candy Components we decided to combine that blog with our One Ghost Industries blog and really step it up and bring Lunchbox Labs to life for realzies!

expect lots of uncensored mayhem and shenanigans here  and "leaks to the public" with new and "unobtanium" product. videos and lots more so sit back and enjoy this wonderful selection of new pedals for the Candy Component Group we have finished up:

The Candy Components "rACE day pedal.

 The pedal body is 115 wide x 110 tall. The profile from the side tapers from 10mm near the axle to 15mm at the tips. The large diameter at the axle is 18mm in diameter, and so I kept the ends taller so the axle area doesn't feel like a big hump in the middle.

Three colorways chosen:

Ghost Dog Limited Edition (Ti axle only, dark polished black chrome finish with Gold pins/axle. a portion of all sales of this one go to the Ghost Dog Foundation); 

Pantone 193C (dark blood red polished) and deep purple.

Flight of Angels

So this update is a bit late thanks to my bought with RnH16 the bovine-o-matic-porcine flu I caught before I left to Angel Fire. Full update will be listed on our web site later this week but here are some photos for you to enjoy for now..

What I am thankful for

There are many things I am thankful for. Mostly the love of my life, Stephanie. Without her I would more than likely not be here as she give me meaning and love. I am most definitely thankful for my boy Ghost without him we would not have One Ghost Industries. For it is Ghost who makes me want to be a better human and the person he thinks I am. I am thankful for finding our other little joy Freida. the silly lab/pit/heeler mix we found living under a car in the back roads of Pecos, NM one day. She has turned out to be one of the most awesome, wonderful additions and a very dear friend to all of us.
I am thankful for all of you and all of my friends I have known and will yet meet, for those we have lost and are watching over us and the wonderful, unexplainable thing called life. My world is full of blessings and I can go on about material things like having a roof over my head, food in my belly and clean drinking water and no one running up on me in the afternoon with an AK-47. I don't live in Somalia or Tibet or Serbia. I don't need to watch over my shoulder and can freely life my life within moral law and for that I am thankful as well.
My life growing up was not the easiest but to put it in perspective for myself, even though I have been homeless and have had my @$$ handed to me a few times on the streets as a child but I made it this far with lots of help from teachers, family and friends and for them, I am deply thankful

Without all of them, we would not have this:

Quite possibly the most advanced downhill race bike on the planet. 40 lbs out of the box, 240mm (9.6") of sweet, bottomless and super plush travel/ long, low and mean and able to handle anything you throw it down!
So one more thing to be thankful for today..

Downhill, dark, loamy soil and epic singletrack full of rocks and roots and drops!

2 new pics from the trenches...

PINNED!

Team racer Ryan Pepper in full pinned action at the MSC race at Snowmass, Colorado last weekend. Ripping it up for the Steaz/THE/One Ghost Industries Factory team.



Here's a shot of The Tank busting off some style on the Tanto prototype making sure it is not just a race bike!

rider view

here is what the rider will see aboard the Katana.....
Digging on the blue!

coming soon

here it is, the exclusive first look at the One Ghost Industries Katana L.S.

Because of he issue with my G4, I can't upload this image to the web site but I can post it here.
the censored bar will come off soon enough. but basically, this bike, polished with a reflex blue head tube and part of the top tube, laser etched graphics, one piece rear triangle, Moto*GP link system, 240mm travel, low standover and center of gravity, World Cup winning geometry, roost sheltered shock...
the final bike will look about 95% of what this image shows. There are a few details not shown here, like some gusetts, some machine relief work, paint and anodize, but overall.
Yeah.

Lunch Anyone?

Yeah, Lunchbox Labs is in the hizzle, cranking out fresh vittles for your riding enjoyment.
Lab director R.Z. and lab rat D.M. and G.P. (why the initials? so we don't get mobbed on the streets for autographs), are hard at work prepping the GP Moto Link system for the Katana L.S. due out in prototype stage this April. All systems are go so far and the GP Moto Link (patented pending) is about ready to assault the competition. We still can't send out any images of the system only computer generated mock ups of the frame design without the system in place for strict confidentiality purposes.




You have no idea what is going on here do you? that is a good thing, we want to keep you all guessing until we have the system working properly. Full production of the bikes will begin this October as this design is over 5 years in the works and finally the technology is within reach. Not to mention it will be 100% USA made.
To top off the lunch break this week we are also working on a truly universal rear derailuer hanger for the SRAM MAXLE system.
now go enjoy your sweet potato fries!