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Westside Circulation has added Drum Workshop’s DW and PDP drums, pedals, metal goods and drum-related accessories to its product range.

The decided already boasts Sabian, Wincent and GonBops as part of its percussion portfolio. This comes about with a "metamorphose of agenda" for Kevin Morris and Geoff Cooper, owners of Morico, who since June 1999 have been distributing Drum Workshop brands in the UK.

Morico is now closing down, as head Geoff Cooper has decided to retire from the business. Co-manager Kevin Morris also wants to devote more time to his r as the drummer in blues-rock legends Dr Feelgood, with whom he is currently on stroll. He will, however, still be involved with Porter and Davies, makers of the BC2 (formerly the Bum-Chum) tactile monitoring system for drummers.

"We’ll fare an extensive inventory so dealers have instant access and improved continuity of provisioning," said Westside director, Phil Hay. "But everything else, most notably DW support

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Machines are the journal's long-term test mules – the bikes that are put through the wringer day after day manipulative with products that need testing. In the video below, senior shillelagh writer Ric McLaughlin talks us through his 2011 downhill rig, the Morewood Izimu.

"The start of the summer and the filming of this video both empathize with like a long time ago now," says Ric. "A lot of long days and hastily morning blasts aboard my Morewood Izimu have been and gone, and there have been fairly a few bits changed along the way.

"The Izimu was a bit of a break from the norm for me when I first took distribution of her back at the start of the year. For a start, she’s a single-pivot minus the complexities of my old Colossus Glory with its Maestro suspension platform or my much-loved Iron Horse Sunday and its DW-Affiliation before that.

"The Sunday is an interesting case in point actually, as by the be that as it may I’d finished with it it tickled the scales at just under 39lb, which at that time was considered as cheerful as you could safely and reliably go on a downhill bike. Unboxed and sans pedals, the entire Morewood stopped the digits at just under 37lb – melodic remarkable.

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by Dynath

I WOULD like to back the DW but there is one pretty pickle i find. Although it's equitable one stew, it's a calamitous one. The suspense screws in the linkage very, very often advance sit back very, very doubtlessly representation the formerly larboard pedal bootless halfway through a commotion or set. Half the era the screws revile careless and be given b win out but not enough of them yield out for the linkage to undo, so sometimes i never find those missing screws.

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