[Trekrules]

Saw this on Sicklines a view minutes ago.

Minotaur Features:

■Travel: 8″
■Rear shock length: 10.5″
■Weight: 3550g (claimed)
■Seatpost: 31.6
■Headtube: 1 1/8″
■Bottom Bracket width: 83mm
■2:1 Leverage Ratio(mentioned in the teaser vid)

Minotaur Geometry:

■Head angle: 64°
■Seat Angle: 68°
■Top tube length: 585mm (medium)
■Seat tube lenth: 382mm (medium)
■Headtube length: 130mm
■Chainstay lengths: 438mm-445mm-452mm
■Wheelbase: 1194mm with 445mm chainstay length

 

[captainspauldin]

MINOTAUR!

Looks alot like the Sunn Radical with a 10.5" shock.. and it's french too! Cool bike, dumb name.

 

[IH8Rice]

did the search button not work?
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231900&highlight=Labyrinth

 

[jonKranked]

MINOTAUR!

That's the first thing that came into my mind too

 

[IH8Rice]

That's the first thing that came into my mind too

me too. 12 days ago

 

[mattmatt86]

That's the first thing that came into my mind too

Really? This is the first thing that came to mind for me...

Bowie is awesome.

 

[jonKranked]

Bowie is indeed awesome.

Someone needs to photoshop David Bowie, wearing the minotaur costume, riding the bike.

 

[Hesh To Steel]

Reminds me of commencal bro

 

[Pslide]

The Sunn's fundamentally a good design, this looks pretty cool too. The linkage is like a labyrinth though...I'm lost.

 

[norbar]

The front triangle looks an awfull lot like the nuke proof bike. Almost identical. The susp is different though.

 

[Trekrules]

Correct Vimeo posting:

thanks

 

[bansheefr]

Pretty sweet looking bike.... What is the front tire in the video? Looks like a variation of a highroller.

 

[marra]

the rear tire is a mobster! what a classic

 

[bullcrew]

looks like a evil revolt mated a commencal... Actually looks pretty decent..

 

[mattmatt86]

looks like a evil revolt mated a commencal... Actually looks pretty decent..

I was thinking it was the bastard child of a Makulu and a Flatline...

 

[blue]

Looks a lot like the Corsair Koenig linkage. I'd like to see it work...Wonder if that got patented.

 

[Sverre]

Looks sweet!
Can´t be 2:1, can it? 8" of travel, with a 3,5" shock gives 2.3:1, or has I missed something here?

 

[EVIL JN]

It could be the linkage that is the 2:1 ratio not the wheel rate otherwise they teach some other type of math in frenchschools.

 

[Verskis]

What is the front tire in the video? Looks like a variation of a highroller.

Looks like Continental Digga.

 

[Verskis]

Looks a lot like the Corsair Koenig linkage. I'd like to see it work...Wonder if that got patented.

It's not really that similar. The Labyrinth bike is single pivot with linkage driven shock (just like Makulu, Flatline, Revolt, TR450, Sunn, Commencal etc.), while the Corsair is pretty much like VPP with the links really close together.

 

[62kona]

Wow, I would like to see that suspension in action too.

 

[jonKranked]

so someone stuck a cannondale fulcrum in the linkage area of a evil revolt?

 

[leprechaun]

In the vid you can see that link one pulls link two, it just looks strange when sitting topped out.

2:1, huh. I'm 130 lbs anyone got a 180lb spring for me? Seems like 2.6-2.8 is ideal these days aint it? That works out to be 7.8-8.4" with a 3" stroke shock, boring i know.


Why aren't there 3.25 stroke shocks for the monkeys that love low leverage? Companies go every .25" then jump .5" up to the 3.5"??? The linkage swings so many degrees that it's tough to get a clean rate. Perhaps that's why there's such a unique looking linkage with the 2 links practically butted up against each other?

I still love single pivot with linkage frames for DH, and this one looks sweet otherwise.

 

[Prettym1k3]

Kinda' reminds me of the Sunn DH frame. With more links.

 

[time-bomb]

SP w/linkage - yes please
2:1 leverage - no thanks

I like it. Looks really nice and clean and the black and gold is killer. Would look stunning w/the new Kashima 40s.

 

[Verskis]

Kinda' reminds me of the Sunn DH frame. With more links.

Actually there is equal amount of links. Sunn just has a lot longer pull link, the one that begins near the dropout.