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Electric integtration on a Mountain Bike
I've looking at the latest developments in Mountain Biking recently, and the biggest things of late have been 29ers, 10x2 drivetrains, and just more variety. There hasn't been anything major from Shimano, Sram, Rockshok, Fox or frame innovations from the Major frame manufacturers for a while.

Classic Steel Mountain Bike Breezer 29er style
When you talk about classic steel mountain bikes Breezer has to be one considered. While Classic steel road bikes typically mean Italian, Mountain Biking started in the US and the old school classics all come from there.

Shimano 11speed 9000 leaked details
Shimano Dura Ace 7900 while maintaining market dominance with strong OEM sales, has never wowed users with the floorless performance 7800 had. While still selling strong some users did change to SRAM. Sram is now coming out with a new lower weight group that shimano 7900 doesn't compete with too well. So what is Shimano going to do? The answer is the Dura Ace 9000 groupset due to be released to OEM during this year, and you'd expect pro teams to be using it at least by the Tour de France. Full commercial details haven't come out yet, but there have been OEM briefings to try and secure sales for the 2013 bikes which will actually start coming on the market in the second half of 2012.

Mavic Wheels- Designed by the Marketing and Accounting Departments?
In recent times I feel Mavic’s products have really slipped in engineering terms. Mavic rims were once the only thing I’d consider for my Mountain Bike, and the Open Pro was the best road rim you could put on a road bike. Now however they seem to have added gimmick after gimmick until their wheels are starting to be nearly non usable.