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M6 has the lowest freaking BB evar!!!!

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TGR

Monkey
Jan 9, 2006
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my friend's swd has a 13.5" bb height and that's without sag...

let's just say it's freaking low, mines at 13.9" and it's freaking low...
 
coma13

coma13

Turbo Monkey
Feb 14, 2006
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how much travel does that thing have? 9.5"? you're gonna be dragging bashguard on the ground when you bottom it. hahaha
 
norbar

norbar

KESSLER PROBLEM. Just cause
Jun 7, 2007
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Yeah so m6 will be mostly for rich kids and very good (probably mostly sponsored) racers. The casual rider will be having trouble with it.

This kinda scares me as intense is closer and closer to becoming a FRO only company. That would suck.
 
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Lollapalooza

Monkey
Jan 22, 2007
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norbar said:
Yeah so m6 will be mostly for rich kids and very good (probably mostly sponsored) racers. The casual rider will be having trouble with it.
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I'll be a sponsored racer on it. :lighten:

Intense probably used 13" tires when assessing geometry. So add another 1/4 to 1/2 inch for those big meaties we'll be rollin' on.
 
SinatorJ

SinatorJ

Monkey
Jul 9, 2002
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norbar said:
Yeah so m6 will be mostly for rich kids and very good (probably mostly sponsored) racers. The casual rider will be having trouble with it.

This kinda scares me as intense is closer and closer to becoming a FRO only company. That would suck.
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what do you mean becoming? Every Intense rider I have personally known has had to replace at the end of every season. Should have a stamp Fragile on the top tube.
 
fellow pinner

fellow pinner

Monkey
May 18, 2007
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ok so trek lies and it is actually about a 13.35 in bottom bracket I got the 12.34 of of the website:imstupid: but to the bottom of the frame its that height.:poster_oops:
 
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jamesdc

Monkey
May 6, 2007
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ya my swd 216 is 13.9 and the fork is way slacked out so its a really low bike, corners like its on rails
 
DirtEveryDay

DirtEveryDay

Turbo Monkey
Nov 24, 2003
2,692
4
Pacific North Wet
And technically, aren't you SUPPOSED to be replacing race bikes every season??? I'm not even a racer boy and I do. I kept thinking that Intense was one of those companies who strongly advise it. They're light, fast, and plenty strong for one good season...
 
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TheMontashu

Pourly Tatteued Jeu
Mar 15, 2004
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a 3rd of your travel seems pretty good for DH racing. Bikes usualy range between about 20-33%, depending on suspention and rider preferance.
 
Fonzie18

Fonzie18

Turbo Monkey
Feb 4, 2003
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The bike rides very nicely. I had a chance to demo one with a CCDB and it was buttteerrr. Definately noticed the slack and height right away. It'll be awhile before we see this baby in production though.

I've ridden intense bikes for more than one season. My experience has been good in terms of durability, but I'm sure others would love to argue that. Oh well.
 
SpastikSlingkee

SpastikSlingkee

Chimp
Nov 27, 2006
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what do you mean becoming? Every Intense rider I have personally known has had to replace at the end of every season. Should have a stamp Fragile on the top tube.
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damn, i was planning on getting an M6, but after hearing that, i might want to go for the new Jedi F1
 
jvnixon

jvnixon

Turbo Monkey
May 14, 2006
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Fonzie18 said:
The bike rides very nicely. I had a chance to demo one with a CCDB and it was buttteerrr. Definately noticed the slack and height right away. It'll be awhile before we see this baby in production though.

I've ridden intense bikes for more than one season. My experience has been good in terms of durability, but I'm sure others would love to argue that. Oh well.
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Hehe that wasn't you riding it at the outdoor demo was it... :monkeydance:

jealousy jealousy...
 
bikenweed

bikenweed

Turbo Monkey
Oct 21, 2004
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fellow pinner said:
My trek session ten has a 12.34 inch bottombracket height so ya.
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Hey, you guys saw my custom Demo 8- the Demo 666- with its 12.00" bb height. Never hit a single pedal or ground the bash into the ground after three weeks of Rock Garden, Ridge, Morning Glory and Irish Hills rides. The only time I crabbed a pedal was on the driveway test ride, and right in front of the neighbors. :)


IMO, everyone's too caught up on BB height- it's really not that big of a deal. The overall geometry package is much more important. If a bike has good geometry and a 14.5" BB height, or even 15", it's not going to be any slower than somethng that's lower. If anything, I feel a higher BB gets you more leverage for pumping through stuff. The industry isn't going to return to the retarded 16"+ heights ever again, but all this hype about "lower is better" is just marketing. It's the whole bike that matters.
 
altix

altix

Monkey
Feb 14, 2007
407
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i agree with mr kendlweed

and the trek has a 12.34 bb with sag....still super low...my v10 feels awesome at 14.3? ish
 
Spunger

Spunger

Git yer dumb questions here
Feb 19, 2003
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You notice on pinkbike (which I don't go very much) they had a video about the M6 taking over the M3. So if you got an M3 I guess you get shafted (like everyone with the late model M1's did).

Bike looks sick, they're following Foes and others with the longer stroke shocks. Should make for one sweet DH race bike. With a BB claimed that low I'd be scared to run it on my local trails. I'd be bashing everything.
 
Udi

Udi

RM Chief Ornithologist
Mar 14, 2005
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The trek looks more like 14.5+ in the catalogue shot. Not sure how you guys are measuring (and what dropout position you're measuring from) but either way, there's a lot of factors that make up the geometry of a good DH bike and BB height certainly isn't the only one.

One thing many people don't consider (especially on bikes with a myriad of shock mounting holes, or in this case dropout mounting holes) is how the low BB setting affects other things, namely head angle and chainstay length. Often the chainstay length gets fairly long, and the head angle drops to numbers below 64, which makes for a pretty poor handling bike in the tight/tech sections.

For the record, a medium sunday measured with boxxer @ 205mm exposed stanchion, and 2.5" minion DHF's both ends measures:

13.66" BB
64.90* HA
17.25" CS
45.51" WB

Pretty dialled figures I reckon, and the M6 has some pretty similar numbers on paper. I'm sure it'll be a nice bike if it actually measures up that way. Not big on the shock size though...
 
Kntr

Kntr

Turbo Monkey
Jan 25, 2003
7,526
21
Montana
Their website says the Socom is 14.125". Mine is 14 3/8 with a 66 and 2.5/2.7 Maxxis tires. If I ran an 888 it be 14 1/2 - 14 5/8.

I bet the M6 will be 14" or over.
 
Nick

Nick

My name is Nick
Sep 21, 2001
24,065
14,713
where the trails are
lets see if this works ...

ok, that didn't work ... can we embed video here? any help?

screw it ... check pinkbike's interbike coverage for a short M6 video.
According to Intense the bike will have a sub-14" BB height.
 
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