The Euro company THM Carbone has pushed their development of high-end lightweight carbon cranks to the dirt side of things. Their newest Clavicula M3 mtb cranks utilize the same carbon layup and design as the THM Carbone road cranks but have a dirt oriented BCD/spider with four options for sizes. Off topic on cranks but there are some pictures below as well of their new tapered steerer carbon fork, that was released at Eurobike ’12. This is their first tapered carbon fork. You may have noticed around, any road bike that used their super light fork has always been with a straight steerer. But THM is trying to change things up slowly to modern times,  only an 1/8th inch at a time.  Pictures of their Clavicula M3 mountain bike cranksets and tapered fork items below…

The newest from 2012 Eurobike news, a THM Carbone Scapula CT that utilizes a steerer tube that only tapers from 1-1/8″ to 1-1/4″,  baby steps are better than no steps… It has been reported CT is stiffer laterally, as to be expected, but the fore and after stiffness is a hare less than the 1″ fork model to give it more comfort.