Exclusive first look: Intense 275 m9
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i see a problem and it starts with "K"
Isn't the 26" M9 already 443mm long in the rear (short setting)?
mechanics are going to have some pretty strong forearms with all the clipping they're going to have to do...! but seriously, I thought reports coming from the tire-geeks on teh
were that the excavator and even CG were pretty good...?Also, my understanding is that's not the team bike. It's a bike built up for a photo... maybe with parts that were lying around the factory floor?
I think tires is what I'm most curious about with the 650b craze. what tires will be made and when will they available to us mooks. actually, what I'm most concerned about is will the manfacturers still make my favourite tires in 26...
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Odd that the intense has kenderps and the dirt "shed bike" has schelbow blue stripes.
Rear end does look long.
edit: inb4 "forced obsolescence". Just like Intense rendered 26" wheel obsolete with their one-off 29er frame.
Rear end does look long.
edit: inb4 "forced obsolescence". Just like Intense rendered 26" wheel obsolete with their one-off 29er frame.
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One of the intense guys came out to Phoenix and rode s.mtn with one.
Double flats,half way down the first run.Just sayin.
It did really roll really fast,once it got going.It was pretty cool.
Double flats,half way down the first run.Just sayin.
It did really roll really fast,once it got going.It was pretty cool.
^^this^^what I'm most concerned about is will the manfacturers still make my favourite tires in 26...
Yeah but this looks longer. It looks like the CS is proportionaly longer with the wheel size increase. I remember their 29er 951 was super long.
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I'm guessing that a Socom with the Slacker dropouts will also fit a 27.5" rear wheel... albeit at the expense of the 'Slacker' effect.
definitely different. the 275 dropouts are not removable...
i'm guessing that if the stays were the same length, the 951 stays would appear closer though...
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its a completely different rear triangle w/ no G3 dropouts. it also looks like it is using a direct mount derailleur. it also has fork bumpers built into the frame as well
I'm gonna give Sharples the benefit of the doubt and assume his discussion with VMartinez was about other bikes. Either that or the M9 is getting a new rear end for all wheel sizes and we are simply looking at it set up for 27.5.
quoted for chuckles
yep, rear triangle is different: doesn use G3 drop-outs. But as someone mentioned, this is just a proto: steber can chuck these things together overnight as he is prone to do. But i still think there is sufficient clearance on the current M9 triangle, and any additional clearances/geo changes required can't be handled by a suitably modified G3 dropout.
but it would be against the industry norm to just sell you a bit of aluminium to get the latest and greatest.
Must.Sell.More.Bikes.
but it would be against the industry norm to just sell you a bit of aluminium to get the latest and greatest.
Must.Sell.More.Bikes.
I was talking to Scott at Dealer Camp in Park City in July about the 275 bikes. This was in regards to the trail bikes and the 29er DH bike they showed earlier in 2012.
Being that they still make there alloy frames they can build any rear end they want.
He was just saying that's how they where able to get the 275 frames to market so fast. Carbine and Tracer Frames.
VM
Being that they still make there alloy frames they can build any rear end they want.
He was just saying that's how they where able to get the 275 frames to market so fast. Carbine and Tracer Frames.
VM
So it applies to all the 275's except the one this thread is about.
One of our local riders has this Fox 180 Talas with limited up-travel and shaved crown to fit the 29" 2.35 Hans Dampf
I remember reading about one of the Manitou tech's that was riding a Sherman that had the travel limited and the arch removed completely with a 29" wheel. He said that the 20mm Hex thru-axle was more rigid than other 29er forks on the market although that was years ago.