Yesterday Morewood Engineering began powder-coating the first batch of Zula frames destined for the patient South African customers who had their names down on the very first batch of the Zula production. These lucky, soon-to-be Zula owners will be receiving their bikes VERY soon as the hands and powers that be in the Morewood factory are frantically doing the final assembly, QC, prep, alignment and packaging of these beautiful pieces. Check out the little gallery and story below and watch these frames come to life…

All of the tubing which is used on the Zula and Kwela frames is proprietary to … Read More »

So day one of Eurobike is in the bag, everyone has now moved their focus from the Oudtoor “demo” to the main event where all of the bright lights, neon signs and fancy displays are had. Over at the Morewood booth its work [read fun] and business [read play] as usual with the Sports Nut crew serving cold beer and hot, strong coffee to clients while they give them the run-down on the Morewood product line-up for 2010. First up its the two newbees, meet the Zula and Kwela:

Well Eurobike has officially kicked off for 2009, the Morewood team is a little split up this year with Eurobike and World Champs on the same weekend, Pat [Mr Morewood] is in Australia supporting Nathan Rennie and Mitch Delfs [more to come on that later] while Richard Carter is playing Mr Nice guy with the Euro’s showing off some of the latest Morewood product.

There is not too much excitement expected this year from international brands as far as new products and releases are concerned, aside from the SRAM XX group which for most is old news by now there is … Read More »

Bicycling Magazine took our new Marathon bike for a ride, and this is what they had to say:
“…owning a Morewood is akin to running an Apple Mac, or grinding your own coffee beans: slightly left of field and the mark of a connoisseur…”
Patrick Morewood has been building bikes by hand in Pietermaritzburg for over a decade, and in that time has built a reputation for no-nonsense downhill machines that look the part, and do the job too.
In South Africa, owning a Morewood is akin to running an Apple Mac, or grinding your own coffee beans: slightly left of field and … Read More »