Airdrop Bikes Blog

Pang's was the first Edit v2 to hit New Zealand a couple of years ago. Now he's got a typically unique Edit v3, so we caught up with him to see how it's going in Queenstown Bike Park.

When you've got a new bike to launch it can be tough trying to stand out from the crowd; there's so much great content out there. But when the Edit v3 was ready to go we knew we had to do something a bit different, so we went back to the drawing board, with a bit of help.

We caught up with Graham Pinkerton, a full time mtb guide operating out of Chamonix. Graham's put over 7100km of distance and 534,000m of vertical into his Edit v2 in just 21 months. With a lot of emphasis on the new Edit v3 now, we wanted to hear from a seasoned v2 rider how his bike has handled the hard yards...

Graham's had his Edit v2 for nearly two years and in that time he's covered 7100km with 534,000m of vertical. With the v3 out now we thought we'd check in on the Edit v2 that's had the hardest life.

Since we launched the new Edit v3 we've had a lot of good questions coming through email and social media. With frames arriving any day, we thought we should take a stab at providing some good answers.

This Saturday sees Dual racing return to the streets of Sheffield with a field of invited European talent going head-to-head against Sheffield locals and our own previous winner, Brett Penfold. We'll be there with bikes on show including the new Edit v3.

Remember when purple anodising everything was cool? That was 2019. We take a look at Neil's custom Bitmap with trick parts from Hope and Burgtec.

Matt's a local rider and his mate has got a nice Airdrop Edit already. But Matt figured he could go one better so we built him a very nice bike with a full Hope Technology build kit.

Dan's custom built Edit v2 puts a subtle but distinctive twist on the standard Edit Pro bike. It's stealthy and well thought-out. Good work Dan.

You can tell a lot about a person by the way they take their tea. The same goes for a bike brand, especially when it's only two people.

A little while back we built a custom Edit v2 for local rider Tom. It went up on Vital MTB and made Bike Of The Day but we never put it on the blog, so here's Tom's bike - with a particularly well thought-out Hopetech colour scheme.

Back in May when the Bitmaps first arrived, we built up a Works bike and sent it to the guys at MBUK for a review. The results are in and you can read the whole thing in issue 361...