Product news: We have often seen the products from Praxis Works. For example, the cranks were installed on Specialized road bikes. In the test operation, the Praxis Works parts were absolutely convincing, and they look good too. The components are now available through a new distributor; JBS GmbH & Co. KG is taking on this job in Germany and Austria with immediate effect, expanding its extensive wholesale range with another exclusive brand.
The components of Praxis Works stand for sophisticated manufacturing processes and innovative technologies. That's what Dave Earle promises, the founder of the brand, who is anything but a blank slate in the bike industry. As an engineer, he has worked for numerous well-known manufacturers - from Bontrager to Specialized - and has helped them to create groundbreaking innovations. In the suspension sector, many mountain bikers admire him without knowing his name. Last but not least, Yeti's Switch Suspension Design and Santa Cruz' VPP rear triangle concept are to be ascribed to him. Earle's extensive wealth of experience and his tireless innovative strength now flow fully into Praxis Works, which can be clearly seen in the quality of the components and their clever detailed solutions.
Praxis Works focuses largely on drive components, with cranks and chainrings in particular being part of the brand's expertise. The latter are manufactured in a specially developed cold forging process, which not only allows complex shapes and designs, but is also intended to ensure maximum durability of the material. Praxis Works is not only committed to excellent quality, but also to the particularly long service life of the components.
The Practice Works Technology
Praxis Works chainrings are made of aluminum and hard-anodized, a complex cold forging process ensures that the components are extremely resistant and durable at the same time. Cranks with a single chainring at the front are offered with chainrings that use what is known as wave technology. Other manufacturers mostly rely on "Narrow-Wide" chainrings, which grip the inner and outer plates of the chain with alternately thick and thinner teeth. The chain has less play on the chainring, is guided more securely and stays on the chainring even on rough terrain.
Wave technology solves the task differently: the teeth are simply alternately offset inwards and outwards. The chain is guided over the blade in a veritable wave-like manner, which ensures an even firmer grip in adverse conditions and at the same time prevents wear on the components. If you turn the chain ring, you can see the changing tooth positions like a wave movement. Hence "Wave Technology". Simple and genius too. The goal can be achieved with less material input. The chain position should be such that the outer chain link is placed on the inner chainring tooth. We recommend using a rear derailleur with a damper (e.g. Shimano Shadow+), then the whole thing works with 10-, 11- and 12-speed chains from Shimano, Sram and KMC.
Wave technology is used, for example, in the Lyft Carbon MTB crank. This shapely carbon crankset weighs just 454g (in 175mm length and 32 chain ring). The hollow carbon crank arms are connected to a 30mm shaft. The crank itself is well prepared for the toughest enduro use. That's exactly why the Enduro twins, Caro and Anita Gehring, are starting the Enduro World Series this year with their brand new Praxis Lyft cranks. Last year, the two were able to claim fourth and fifth place, so in 4 their plans are correspondingly big to conquer the podium.
The Zayante aluminum road crank comes without wave chainrings. The crank arms are hollow forged. With the Zayante line, Praxis Works proves that absolute high-end technologies and a moderate price do not have to be mutually exclusive. The aluminum crank set not only has hollow forged crank arms, it is also equipped with a broadly supporting M30 axle, which means that it not only boasts excellent stiffness values, but also weighs just 712g (with a crank arm length of 172,5mm and 50/34 chainrings). brings. The cold-forged Buzz chainrings are extremely resistant and durable and perfectly matched to each other thanks to the innovative LevaTime technology. The tooth profile was optimized in such a way that both the shape and arrangement of the individual chainring teeth guarantee absolutely perfect and, above all, fast shifting.
No matter which crank you ride, no matter which bike. Creaking and cracking bottom brackets quickly bring a biker to the brink of despair. But Praxis Works wouldn't be Praxis Works if they didn't find an innovative solution to this problem as well. What at first glance looks like a simple adapter for the in-house press-fit bottom bracket turns out to be an elastomer sleeve. An elastomer is a plastic that has a specific elasticity. In addition to the press fit of the cup, the center sleeve is bolted to the cup, which in turn compresses the orange ring. This has the simple but far-reaching effect that it also clamps the bearing to the frame and at the same time compensates for certain tolerances, which puts an end to annoying cracking noises.
In addition to good products, Praxis Works also thinks about the trappings. Who is still familiar with the large number of standards today and can find the right bottom bracket right away? Practice Works offers help…. With the bottom bracket model finder: www.praxiscycles.com/bottom-brackets/
We already mentioned it at the beginning: until recently we would not have known where we could have gotten Praxis Works in the German-speaking area. With Praxis Works, JBS GmbH & Co. KG has added a new exclusive brand to its wholesale range and is now the official distributor in Germany and Austria. For 20 years, JBS has been exclusively supplying specialist retailers with a selected range of over 25 brands. This means that end consumers in German-speaking countries should soon be able to find the products in various shops. Specialist retailers can contact JBS directly.