The DH bike finally dropped. I dig what they did aside from the colors and 'aldi' esque chainstay graphics, not into it at all.
Forbidden Dreadnought...what y'all think?
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Seems a big investment, for how many units they will move? 34mm horizontal travel. Never could come to grips with my Craftworks i-track, with 40mm, in corners. Never felt right.
As long as the chain start starts short enough I’d think it would be ok. As long as it ends up around 435 while in the turn it’ll feel right for me.
edit, looked at forbiddens site, monster length stays. Not interested, if I wanted to drive a tanker I’d get a pole.
edit, looked at forbiddens site, monster length stays. Not interested, if I wanted to drive a tanker I’d get a pole.
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Anyone think the reach numbers are on the short side?
Yeah 488 for a s4 seems kind of small...
Reach seems good to me.
My last mullet DH frame was 443, and full 29" Canfield is 450 (both medium). Supernaughty is 443/447.
It's a DH bike, not endurpoo. Does not need to have 10 mile reach.
But the rear center on the other hand, good lawd!
Medium maxing out at 480mm, that is an oil tanker....
My last mullet DH frame was 443, and full 29" Canfield is 450 (both medium). Supernaughty is 443/447.
It's a DH bike, not endurpoo. Does not need to have 10 mile reach.
But the rear center on the other hand, good lawd!
Medium maxing out at 480mm, that is an oil tanker....
Yeah, this. The reach (at least on the medium) seems fine, a tad shorter than enduro, which seems par for DH. But JFC the rear center... I had a Gnarvana for a bit with 450 rear and that thing felt like I was driving one of those fire ladder trucks that needs a rear steering man. I can't even imagine (how weird / sluggish) what something that starts at 446 and grows to 477 would feel like on a medium.
Edit: corrected the numbers for a medium/size 2. Point stands.
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@Flo33 to the rescue, tell him!
You're just getting old. They've got DH grips now.
they had similar ones from the beginning of the brand, those don‘t help with bad posture though
similar and better are the ones from sqlab, thats the grip i ride with:
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If one needs an XL, the SLX build is quite the deal at 2245$ usd
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Forbidden Dreadnought SLX Mountain Bike - 2022, X-Large
Forbidden Dreadnought SLX Mountain Bike - 2022, X-Large
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tell me you don't ride downhill fast without telling me you don't ride downhill fast
Looks like a great posture to do the biker fox over the bars front flip.elbows out kids!
I must have a bad posture on my mtb but not on my commuter then...similar and better are the ones from sqlab, thats the grip i ride with:
SQlab GmbH Online Shop | Grip 7OX Black | S | Ergonomic bike equipment
SQlab bicycle grips ✓Relieving ✓Comfortable ✓Ergonomic - Grip 7OX by SQlab purchase at SQlab. ✓Delivery 0€ ✓Fast Delivery ✓Award Winner
The above sq-lab grips didn't stay long on my mtb. I do like them on my commuter with Ritchey Koyte bar tho
“Men who ride an expensive racing bicycle for leisure.”
Beats me man, I'm beyond coaching at this stage. I literally rode past Kovarik coaching some kid once and over heard him say "yeah thats what not to do"
Those look so close to the awesome ODI Elite Pro they might actually be good. Screw that pricing though
Well I mean a couple of coaching sessions would definitely help me, but it would be like putting a racing stripe on a farm tractor at this point in time.
